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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In Roanoke, one music therapist, who specializes in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, is providing people in addiction recovery with the chance to feel whole again. -
People without access to insurance can’t afford out-of-pocket costs for dental health. What do they do?
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In 2022, 74.6% of white households owned their homes, compared with 45.3% of Black households.
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For more than two decades, the free events have offered care to underserved people in the commonwealth.
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The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority is rolling out two new programs that it hopes will create a more positive environment for its residents and eventually help move those residents out of public housing and into home ownership.
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Residents are pushing back against the investment firm that bought land beneath their trailers.
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Nonprofit Project:HOMES purchased Bermuda Estates in 2020 and has worked with residents to address the park's needs.
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The crisis in our education system continues to persist. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted where the cracks are. Now, communities are navigating how to teach and learn post pandemic.
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At the height of the pandemic, the Virginia Department of Health reported that long-term care facilities were home to more than fifty percent of the commonwealth’s reported coronavirus outbreaks.
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Once a refugee, the Honduras native is giving back to the Richmond community that welcomed her.
