William Ramsey

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News Director, The News Leader (Staunton, VA)
Investigations and Enterprise Editor, USA Today
Enterprise Editor, Democrat and Chronicle

Waynesboro

Environment, U.S. Regional

As seen in: Democrat and Chronicle, The News Leader (Staunton, VA), USA Today, The Daily Mirror, Yahoo News, Aol, Western Mail, Birmingham Mail, Scottish Daily Record, Asbury Park Press, The Oklahoman, Bristol Post, Hull Daily Mail and

Covers: Housing, climate, mental health, social justice

News director, newsleader.com. Rode a tornado out of Texas, through skies over Kansas, bounced near the Puget Sound and ended up in idyllic Shenandoah Valley.

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Unity Park was Greenville's biggest price tag. Its cost might be Black neighborhoods, too.

An investigation into the unrecognized harm from downtown Greenville’s revitalization efforts and a new, expe…

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The East Coast is navigating a 'Perilous Course' confronting climate crisis in real time

A team of USA TODAY Network reporters examined how people up and down the East Coast are grappling with the c…

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USA TODAY

A major statewide investigation exposing shocking abuse in North Carolina's system of psychiatric youth cente…

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TAKEN: How police departments make millions by seizing property

When a man barged into Isiah Kinloch's apartment and broke a bottle over his head, the North Charleston resid…

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Addicted nurses investigation

Led a yearlong investigation into Virginia nurses stealing drugs from patients

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Fact checking a sensitive story: 6 good questions with William Ramsey via API

On the same day Rolling Stone magazine issued an apology for errors in a jarring story about campus rape, a s…

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Losing Norah

Led team on an emotional journey as we followed a family's battle with pediatric cancer

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Struggling to forgive

The Rev. Thomas Arner unsnaps the clasps on his cloth briefcase, a bag given him by the hospital at Christmas…

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