Had a great session Friday in Newport News!

Hit Newport News Friday for a lively session withe staff of the Daily Press…busy newsroom, as the president was in Hampton and the Democratic governors were in Williamsburg, but we still had a room full….

Last night, the Harrisonburg event gave me renewed faith in journalism. What a great group of reporters from a variety of media outlets!

And tonight: Thanks to the Richmond SPJ chapter for a great evening! My host Paul Fletcher even took time out of his busy day to squire us around the breathtaking Virginia capitol, where the US and the Confederacy once reigned….what a day! An enthusiastic group of SPJers met me for dinner followed by the FOI Road Show session, and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!

Me and my sidekick Mamie...

Yesterday I began my leg of the Access Across America Road Show for SPJ in Louisville, Kentucky, where a great room full of journalists at the Courier-Journal talked access and I showed them examples of FOI At Work. A great time was had by all! My daughter, Mamie, 14, and I are on the road again — we drove from Louisville to Beckley, West Virginia yesterday after the session (not a drive to be missed — wow, West Virginia and Kentucky are gorgeous…) and now we are off to Harrisonburg, VA tonight for a session.