JULIE ROTHEY (571) 218 6342 / rotheyj@vcu.edu / clippings.me/julierothey

Multimedia journalist with experience covering environmental issues

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA; January 2017 – present • Cover breaking news and write features about the Virginia

General Assembly• Can create graphs, maps and other multimedia elements

to enhance stories• Covered multiple stories about coal ash and water

pollution, including a project length story

SOUND BOARD OPERATOR and PRODUCER, WVCW Student Radio Richmond, VA; January 2017 – present • Run sound board during live show with two

microphones and a line input• Manage show time and make mid-show changes

EDITORIAL COORDINATION INTERN, Grupo America Mendoza, Argentina; September and October 2016

• 8 week internship at Channel TV, Radio Nihuil, and Diario• Uno

• Published an article in Spanish and wrote severalarticle submissions

• Observed and analyzed radio station and TV stationcontrol room operations

EDITOR, The Horn, an online magazine about music and culture Richmond, VA; August, 2015 - May 2016 • Managed staff of seven students• Coordinated with the student media center and other

student publications• Copy edited other student’s work

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE PROGRAM ATTENDANT AND TRIP LEADER, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA, April, 2015 – present • Belay at and maintain safety of rock climbing wall• Rent and maintain outdoors equipment• Plan and lead trips with other leaders for

groups of 10 to 20 participants

CABIN COUNSELOR AND FACILITATOR, Camp Hidden Meadows, 2015 Bartow, West Virginia, June 6 to August 16 • Worked with a co-counselor to lead a unit of campers

aged 12-15• Facilitated on high ropes course, zip line, and climbing

wall• Encouraged participants to reach their goals while

maintaining their safety

S K I L L S

Proficiency in Spanish at the B2

(advanced intermediate) level

Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and

Audition

Copy writing for print, radio and TV

Copy editing

Writing and submitting FOIA requests

E D U C A T I O N

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA; projected graduation 2018 • Minors in Spanish and

Environmental Studies• Enrolled in the Honors College

Universidad de Congreso, Mendoza, Argentina; August - November 2016 • Study abroad semester with a

focus on Spanish

A C A D E M I C H O N O R S

VCU Provost Scholarship, Awarded in 2014

Dean’s List, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016

Accepted to the National Conference of Undergraduate Research, 2015

Robertson’s School’s Aaroe Memorial and Orndorff Scholarships

Member of the Kappa Tau Alpha Mass Communications Honor Society

Dog hunters and landowners argue over trespassing bill wtvr.com /2017/02/01/dog-hunters-and-landowners-argue-over-trespassing-bill/

Capital News Service

RICHMOND, Va. – Hunters may have to pay a fine if their dogenters private property under a bill in front of the House ofDelegates.

A revised version of HB 1900, introduced by House SpeakerWilliam Howell, R-Stafford County, passed the House RulesCommittee on Tuesday.

The bill springs from tension between landowners and hunterswho use dogs to chase deer.

Hunters could be fined up to $100 for a firstoffense and up to $250 for a second offense iftheir dogs trespass on private property.

For the fines to apply, landowners would have toeither post signs to keep dogs out or inform thehunter in writing to keep dogs off his or herland. The law would be enforced by animalcontrol officers, conservation police, and otherlaw-enforcement officers.

“This is an agenda to outlaw hunting with dogs,”said Kirby Burch, CEO of the Virginia HuntingDog Alliance. Its members held a rally at theCapitol last month to protest the bill.

Burch told the Rules Committee that according to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, dogs wereinvolved in only about 5 percent of hunting complaints in Virginia from July 2014 to June 2015.

“Where’s the beef?” Burch asked, if such a small percentage of complaints have to do with dogs.

Rob Nicholson, a landowner who supports the bill, said the beef is that he couldn’t bring his dogs to his farm duringrifle-hunting season, and he was worried about his 18-month-old daughter because “every single day the dogs ranthrough my farm.” Nicholson hunts on his property, without using dogs.

“Why in the world would someone say we’re trying to take away your ability to hunt when we’re just saying, ‘Pleasekeep your dogs off our property’?” Nicholson asked.

The bill also would allow a landowner to stop a trespassing dog long enough to confirm its identification. Dog ownersargue that the dogs are just pursuing deer and don’t intentionally trespass and that landowners should not interferewith the hunt.

“To say that a dog in pursuit cannot be stopped is absolutely the most ludicrous thing,” Nicholson said.

Burch said the hunting dog alliance’s main concern is landowners potentially having the right to restrain dogs toidentify them.

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“Who’s going to do that identification?” Burch asked, arguing that sheriffs and game wardens don’t have theresources to answer calls to identify dogs. He said hunters are worried that landowners would be able to hold dogsuntil a law enforcement official was available.

Nicholson responded that he would only restrain a dog to take a picture for future identification.

Burch also defended the current law’s provision allowing hunters the right to retrieve a dog that has crossed aproperty line.

“This (bill) negates the right to retrieve,” Burch said.

If a hunting dog strays onto another person’s property, the hunter has the “right to retrieve” the animal, even if thehunter has been previously asked not to trespass.

“The right to retrieve law is an unconstitutional law,” said Donald Wright, a landowner and hunter in the Virgilinacommunity in Halifax County. Wright, who supported the bill, said it “restores property rights to people like me.”

Under the current law, it’s a misdemeanor to intentionally release dogs on another person’s land to hunt without theconsent of the landowner. However, if a dog is found on another’s property, there usually is not enough evidence toprove the intentional release of that dog.

While the House Rules Committee approved HB 1900 on an 11-4 vote, it awaits action on the House floor. Ifapproved there, it would go to the Senate.

A Senate committee killed a hunting-with-dogs bill Wednesday.

Senate Bill 1545 would have held hunters liable for damages to the property their dog entered, if they let them ontoprivate property intentionally.

The bill, introduced by Sen. David Marsden, D-Fairfax County, would have made it a Class 3 misdemeanor if ahunter or dog trainer knew, or should have known, about an imminent trespass while hunting or training.

The Senate Committee for Courts and Justice voted unanimously to table SB 1545.

By Julie Rothey with Capital News Service

Capital News Service is a flagship program of VCU’s Robertson School of Media and Culture. Studentsparticipating in the program provide state government coverage for Virginia’s community newspapers andother media outlets, under the supervision of Associate Professor Jeff South.

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Bill would end ‘winner take all’ electoral vote system wric.com /2017/01/24/bill-would-end-winner-take-all-electoral-vote-system/

Julie Rothey, Capital News Service

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – A bill to end Virginia’s “winner take all” system of awarding Electoral College votes wasapproved by a House subcommittee Tuesday.

The electoral votes should be divided among presidential candidates based on how many of Virginia’s 11congressional districts they win, the subcommittee of the House Privileges and Elections Committee decided on a 5-2, party-line vote.

HB 1425, sponsored by Del. Mark Cole, R-Fredericksburg, would give Virginia’s remaining two electoral votes to thewinner of the state’s popular vote.

This system is used in Maine and Nebraska and is known as the “congressional district system.” Under the system,Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would have received six of Virginia’s 13 Electoral College votes,even though Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the state last fall.

Cole said he thinks the bill would increase voter turnout because it would make people feel more like their votemattered. He said Northern Virginia is so populous that it carries the state, and that makes people in rural Virginiafeel their vote doesn’t count.

A citizen testifying before the Elections Subcommittee agreed.

“Western Virginia has been discriminated against … for many years,” the man said. He said the system was set upto protect minorities, and it’s not doing that.

Clara Wheeler, vice chairwoman of the State Board of Elections, told the subcommittee, “When Virginia takes aposition that is all or nothing, vast numbers of your communities – your constituents – have no say in the Electoral

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College.”

The five Republicans on the subcommittee voted for HB 1425. Besides Cole, they included Dels. Leslie Adams ofChatham, Buddy Fowler of Glen Allen, Chris Jones of Suffolk and Margaret Ransone of Kinsale, who chairs thepanel. The two Democrats on the subcommittee – Dels. Mark Sickles of Fairfax and Luke Torian of Prince William –voted against the measure.

The bill now shifts to the full House Privileges and Elections Committee for consideration.

Two organizations opposed the bill.

The Virginia League of Women Voters said it dislikes this bill because it allocates votes based on gerrymandereddistricts.

Bills are pending in the General Assembly to amend the Virginia constitution to prevent gerrymandering, but theycould not go into effect until redistricting occurs in 2021, after the next presidential election.

Carol Noggle, co-president of the league, said a bill of this kind should not be passed before redistricting has beendecided.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia also opposed the bill on grounds that it doesn’t give each person adirect vote.

Instead, the ACLU supported HB 1482, which the subcommittee voted to kill. That measure, introduced by Del.Marcus Simon, D-Falls Church, would have entered Virginia into a national compact to give all electoral votes to thewinner of the national popular vote.

Eleven states, which together hold 165 electoral votes, have approved the compact. It would go into effect when itsmember states represent a majority of the country’s 538 electoral votes.

In response to arguments that his bill would ignore the will of the people, Simon replied, “We don’t know what the willof the people is, because we’re told the state’s going to go this way,” which discourages voter turnout.

“While we oppose the Electoral College, this bill sets a different benchmark more in line with the one-person, one-vote principle,” said Hope Amezquita of the Virginia ACLU.

On an unrecorded voice vote, the subcommittee recommended that Simon’s legislation be “passed by indefinitely,”meaning it is dead for this legislative session.

Virginia has 13 Electoral College votes – one for each member in the U.S. House of Representatives plus two for itsU.S. senators. In December, the state cast all 13 of those votes for Clinton because she carried Virginia on Nov. 8.Clinton won 49.7 percent of the statewide vote to Trump’s 44.4 percent.

But Trump carried six of Virginia’s 11 congressional district in the presidential election; Clinton carried fivecongressional districts. Under HB 1425, seven of Virginia’s Electoral College votes would have gone to Clinton andsix would have gone to Trump.

If that bill passes the House, it likely will face opposition in the Senate. Also on Tuesday, the Senate Privileges andElections Committee considered an identical proposal – SB 837, sponsored by Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Midlothian.It was defeated on a 5-9 vote. Five Republicans voted in favor of Chase’s bill; six Democrats and three Republicansvoted against it.

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Así fue el debate de los candidatos a vicepresidente enVirginia

www.diariouno.com.ar /mundo/asi-fue-el-debate-los-candidatos-vicepresidente-virginia-20161005-n1257221.html

El debate de los candidatos a vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos fue este martes por la noche en un pequeñopueblo de Virginia, en medio de escándalos de asuntos raciales que sacuden al país del Norte.

El debate entre Mike Pence, el republicano, y Tim Kaine, el demócrata, fue en la Universidad Longwood enFarmville, Virginia.

Farmville es un campo de batalla en la lucha para la integración racial de las escuelas, en el estado que dio lugar alnacimiento de la esclavitud en los Estados Unidos.

Cuando Barbara Johns tenía 16 años en 1951, organizó una protesta contra las escuelas para negros en Farmville.Eran de mala calidad, especialmente en comparación de las escuelas para blancos. Ésta protesta se convirtió enparte de la demanda de la corte suprema "Brown v. Board of Education" que terminó con la segregación racial lasescuelas. En vez de integrar, Prince Edward County, el departamento de Farmville, cerró todas las escuelaspúblicas, negando a las minorías raciales la posibilidad de acceder a la educación.

Mucho cosas han cambiando en Virginia desde ese entonces y una de las pruebas es que la mayoría deciudadanos de ese Estado votaron por Obama para presidente, pero ese fondo de tensiones raciales siempre estálatente e influyó en el debate. Las tensiones raciales son elevadas en Estados Unidos después de las muertes demuchos hombres negros a manos de la policía en los últimos años.

Los delincuentes todavía no pueden votar sin permiso directo del gobernador en Virginia. En cuarenta y seis de loscincuenta estados de los EEUU, los delincuentes pueden votar después de su tiempo en la cárcel sin permisoespecial. Ésta prohibición afecta hombres negros más que otros sectores demográficos.

Donald Trump, el candidato republicano para presidente, ha sido acusando de ser racista. Durante el debate, Kainele preguntaba continuamente a Pence sobre las declaraciones sobre las minorías raciales de Trump.

Los candidatos hablaron de las tensiones entre comunidades y la policía. Los dos estuvieron de acuerdo en que losEstados Unidos necesita mejorar relaciones entre la policía y las comunidades. Sin embargo, Pence discutió quelos protestares están usando los muertos para clasificar a todos las policías como racistas. Kaine dijo que hayprejuicio institucional en la policía que afecta sus relaciones con la gente negra.

En otro orden, Pence apoyó las penas mínimas obligatorias para quienes cometen crímenes de drogas, una ley queafecta a los hombres negros más que otros sectores demográficos porque da más poder a los fiscales.

En casos de mínimas obligatorias, si un fiscal realiza un prejuicio contra el acusado, la jueza o el jurado no puedencorregirlo.

Tim Kaine, el candidato democrático para la vicepresidencia, respaldó programas contra el crimen que terminó conmuchos integrantes de la comunidad negra en cárceles cuando él era gobernador de Richmond, Virginia. Esposible que estos programas vayan a disminuir su apoyo entre la comunidad de color.

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