Henrico Citizen hires full-time education reporter

The Henrico Citizen has hired Anna Bryson as its new full-time education reporter.

Bryson, a Florida native, will join the Citizen in June. She has worked as a journalist in her home state for the The Daily Sun in Post Charlotte; the Sarasota Herald-Tribune; and the alternative weekly Creative Loafing in Tampa Bay. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida, where she served as the news editor of The Crow’s Nest, the university’s student-run newspaper.

At The Daily Sun, Bryson’s coverage exposed rising suicide totals at the county jail. She covered childhood literacy topics for the Herald-Tribune and wrote about child care, mental health initiatives and the legacy of busing. She was the lead reporter covering the Tampa mayoral race in 2019.

In her new role with the Citizen, Bryson will cover a wide variety of education topics, with a special focus on educational equity, through the lenses of race, geography, social class and economy, among others.

Bryson joins the Citizen through its partnership with Report for America, a national program that helps place full-time journalists nationally and in Puerto Rico at partner newsrooms that it selects through an application process. The Citizen was the only new newsroom selected from Virginia and joins the Rappahannock News as the only two outlets in the state that are part of the program.

As part of the partnership, RFA commits to fund a portion of the salary of each reporter by providing as much as $25,000 in dollar-for-dollar matching funds to each member outlet. To help the Citizen earn these matching funds, you may make a tax-deductible contribution here.

If you have ideas about education topics Anna should consider covering, e-mail them to citizen@henricocitizen.com.