2009.08.25
New faces, beats in newsroom
We've added a couple of new reporters to our staff and changed some beat assignments in the past month.
Rex Bowman joined the paper to cover Botetourt and Bedford counties. Bowman, a Floyd native who lives in Roanoke, spent 12 years covering Southwest Virginia for the Richmond Times-Dispatch before coming to our newsroom.
He's also worked at The Washington Times, The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, The Argus in Fremont, Calif. and the Easton Star Democrat in Maryland.
Lerone Graham was promoted to full-time status as our weekend police reporter. Graham, who graduated from Norfolk State University in 2008, was hired last year as a one-year intern in our New River Bureau.
Neil Harvey has taken over coverage of Salem. He came to The Roanoke Times in 2001 and has worked in news and features. Most recently, he covered weekday night police.
Tonia Moxley is now covering Virginia Tech and Radford University and serve as the newsroom's point person on broader higher education stories. Her five years of experience covering Blacksburg and her wide network of sources in the New River Valley make her a good fit for that position.
Moxley first joined the company in 2002 as an assistant online editor with roanoke.com. She worked as an editorial assistant in the bureau from 2002-2004 before taking on the Blacksburg beat.
Click here for a complete newsroom staff list.
