Keyris Manzanares
Multimedia Journalist, City of RichmondKeyris Manzanares is a dedicated bilingual multimedia journalist with experience in visual, digital and audio storytelling. A two-time Emmy Award winner, Manzanares has built a reputation as a rising star in public media, earning multiple accolades for reporting excellence and impact.
Manzanares joined VPM News in 2021 to support the launch of VPM News Focal Point, a weekly half-hour multi-platform news magazine program covering news, politics, and cultural events in Virginia. Manzanares has produced in-depth reports on topics such as Virginia’s ICE detention centers, migrant farmworkers, the mental health crisis in Richmond’s Latino community and restorative justice.
In 2024, Manzanares was named “Rising Star in Public Media’ by Current, “Persona de Poder’ by Radio Poder 1380 (WPTK, Richmond’s Spanish radio station) and was a finalist for an Ñ Award from National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ).
Manzanares also earned the ‘Outstanding News Series’ award from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters (VAB) for her 2-part feature collaboration on the state of mobile home parks, which also received a Capital Emmy nomination.
Before joining VPM, Manzanares worked as a digital reporter at WRIC-ABC 8 in Richmond. There she launched, anchored and produced “Hoy en RVA,” a Spanish-language news digital-first initiative – aimed at informing Central Virginia’s Latino community.
Manzanares graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018 with a degree in mass communications with a concentration in broadcast journalism.
Email Keyris: [email protected]
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Pushed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of Virginia parents decided to homeschool their children. -
Dr. Sarah Scarbrough started REAL LIFE to help people who are facing barriers after being incarcerated. REAL LIFE is a program that helps people recover from everyday addictive lifestyles that can lead back to incarceration.
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Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center located in Chesterfield is Virginia's last youth prison. A recent report recommends that the center is shutdown and smaller treatment facilities are created around the state.
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Alexandra Blagova is one of nearly 24,000 Virginia residents of Ukrainian descent. While most Virginians follow the story through news reports, some are seeing war through the eyes of their loved ones who are under attack.
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Drawing from her experience with food insecurity, Natasha Lemus opened a food bank in Central Virginia during the pandemic that serves with Latin flavor in mind.
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Cordenia and Carol Paige are planning to revitalize land they inherited from their ancestors in King William County in an effort to bring back the thriving Black community they once knew.
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Drawing from her experience with food insecurity, Natasha Lemus opened a food bank in Central Virginia during the pandemic that serves with Latin flavor in mind.
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After winning the race with 50.4 percent of Virginia voters behind him, Miyares became the first Latino elected as attorney general. Miyares says he is ready to get to work, emphasizing that his duty is to all Virginians.
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Earlier this week, Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin sat down to speak with VPM News reporter Keyris Manzanares. Youngkin officially takes office as the 74th governor of Virginia on Saturday.
