Lalena Price
Communications and MarketingLalena Price oversees marketing and communications for West Virginia Public Broadcasting. She comes to us with experience in the fields of government, higher education, daily newspapers, multi-media development and nonprofit organizations. She has been a devoted follower of West Virginia Public Broadcasting since childhood and loves bringing her marketing and communications skills to work for her favorite media organization.
Lalena is a native of the Mountain State and is proud of her two degrees from Marshall University -- one in journalism and the other an Executive MBA.
She has a muddly little horse farm in Jackson County. For evidence, see her shoes.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting has finalists in five categories of the 53rd Annual Public Media Awards, which celebrate the work of National Educational Telecommunications Association members. Check out our finalists for these categories — Excellence in Innovation, Topical Documentary, Community Engagement, Community Initiative, and National Project. -
Matthew Adkins, a physical education teacher at Spring Hill Elementary School in Huntington, has earned West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Above and Beyond Award, which recognizes the excellence and creativity of Mountain State teachers.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting presents Communities in Schools: Extending a Helping Hand, a half-hour documentary about a national education program that helps connect public schools with community resources to ensure every child is nurtured, supported, and helped to flourish in school with the goal of graduating. The program airs Friday, Nov. 26, at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and will be available on WVPB's streaming service, Passport, thereafter.
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John Nakashima, a longtime senior television producer and director with West Virginia Public Broadcasting, has won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters. The WVPB news team also won seven first and two second place awards.
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The veteran science teacher from PikeView High School in Princeton, West Virginia, kicks off WVPB’s second cohort of Above And Beyond teachers. In all, 12 teachers will be honored in the coming months, thanks to a new sponsor, the West Virginia State Treasurer’s Office, presenter of the SMART529 college savings program in the Mountain State.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting brought home two National Edward R. Murrow Awards this week for demonstrating the spirit of excellence that famed journalist Murrow set as a standard for the profession of electronic journalism.
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Fire Shut Up In My Bones, the first performance of an opera by a Black composer on The Met’s stage, is being presented at movie theaters in West Virginia as part of The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Series this Saturday, Oct. 23, at 12:55 p.m. in Nitro, Morgantown, and Barboursville.
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A longtime newspaperman, broadcaster and a former communications director for Gov. Jim Justice has been named interim executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
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Chelsea Price is the September recipient of WVPB's Above and Beyond teacher award. She teaches at Scott High School and Madison Middle School in Boone County, West Virginia.
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Marianna Ruggiero, a teacher at Warm Springs Intermediate School, has earned our August Above and Beyond award for excellence and creativity in teaching.
