Journalism that informs and educates
Dear Citizen reader,
I told you last week that we’ll be adding a full-time education reporter, Liana Hardy, to our team July 10 through our partnership with Report for America, and we’re thrilled about that.
Why? In part because we view journalism at its core – non-partisan, fair, informative and accurate – as a form of continuing education, and we take seriously our role as the purveyors of local news and information.
And we believe strongly that you do with that information is for you – not us – to decide.
Just as classroom teachers don’t advocate specifically for their history students to become museum curators or their English students to become poets, neither do we advocate one way or the other for any particular outcomes related to the coverage we provide.
Rather – like the educators who work tirelessly to ensure their students have the foundation of knowledge necessary to achieve any number of different lifelong goals – we work to provide you with the local knowledge you need to play an active and meaningful role in Henrico’s future, however you choose to do so.
The best communities are those with active and engaged citizens – but active engagement doesn’t happen unless citizens have an understanding of their community’s strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities.
Sharing that information with you in a way that is truthful, fair, and easy to understand and digest is our job.
But we need your support to keep doing this work. Will you chip in to help?
Yours in community,
Tom Lappas, publisher
