Ben R. Williams is a writer and editor, and formerly a reporter at the Martinsville Bulletin. He has won several Virginia Press Association awards for news coverage, column writing, and photography. He lives in Bassett, Virginia.
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On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award–winning twenty-four-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward. Their interviewee was also shot but survived. In the wake of his daughter's ... SEE MORE