Newsroom Staff: Janie Bryant

Staff writer

Office phone: 757-446-2453

Janie Bryant covers courts and is also a general assignment reporter, with a focus on the culture, people, neighborhoods and history of Portsmouth.

A Portsmouth native, Janie looks for stories about efforts to revitalize the city, whether it’s building museums and promoting tourism or redeveloping old communities and business districts.

She started working for The Ledger Star as an editorial assistant more than 30 years ago, before it merged with The Virginian-Pilot. She later became a staff writer and has always covered Portsmouth.