Sandy Hausman
Sandy Hausman joined our news team in 2008 after honing her radio skills in Chicago. Since then, she's won several national awards for her reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Radio, Television and Digital News Association and the Public Radio News Directors' Association.
Sandy has reported extensively on issues of concern to Virginians, traveling as far afield as Panama, Ecuador, Indonesia and Hong Kong for stories on how expansion of the Panama Canal will effect the Port of Virginia, what Virginians are doing to protect the Galapagos Islands, why a Virginia-based company is destroying the rainforest and how Virginia wines are selling in Asia.
She is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters degree in journalism from the University of Michigan.
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The COVID crisis led many universities to move classes online, but some enterprising professors took their classes outside instead. And one prof at James… -
For many children, COVID-19 has meant educational setbacks as they struggled to absorb lessons online. But for others the pandemic has underscored the… -
A Virginia construction project threatens nesting sea birds. Now, the governor has announced he will protect the birds in light of Trump Administration rollbacks to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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City leaders in Charlottesville, Va., will remove a statue of Lewis and Clark because their guide, Sacagawea, is portrayed as weak. They will replace it with one that highlights her importance.
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Wetlands go by many names -- marshes, bogs, swamps and bayous, but whatever they’re called, the fact is they’re disappearing here in Virginia. More than… -
A statewide study recently found that 40 percent of Virginia’s 5-year-olds were not ready for kindergarten. Governor Ralph Northam, a pediatric… -
When it comes to apple production, Virginia ranks sixth in the nation – well behind the leader: Washington State. But it’s worth noting that farmers here… -
Crews in Virginia are preparing for that state's largest construction project, but they face an unusual obstacle — 25,000 seabirds nesting on their staging area.
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Two women recall when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters after a white supremacist rally that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer. They will be in court Monday to testify.
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Che Apalache is a band made up of two North Americans and two Argentines. They play bluegrass and have been a big hit with Anglo audiences and Latinx listeners as they tour the rural U.S.
