NORFOLK The Virginian-Pilot Monday honored writers, photographers and artists at its annual Slover Awards ceremony at the Chrysler Museum of Art. The awards, named for Pilot founder Samuel L. Slover, recognize staffers for outstanding work in news and feature writing, photography, copy editing and design. Journalism experts from around the country serve as judges for the contest.

NORFOLK The Virginian-Pilot has been named the best daily newspaper in its class in Virginia by the Virginia Press Association for a record 24th time in the award's 30-year history. The Pilot won the 2008 sweepstakes award out of daily newspapers with a circulation of 100,000 or more.

The Virginian-Pilot, seeking to pare costs further to weather the recession, told its employees today that they would have five unpaid days off this year. The five days will be Feb. 16, Presidents’ Day; April 10, Good Friday; May 22, the Friday before Memorial Day; Nov. 27, the day after Thanksgiving; and Dec. 24, the day before Christmas.

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NORFOLK Donald Luzzatto, an editorial writer at The Virginian-Pilot for the past four years, will become the editorial page editor on Jan. 1. He will succeed Dennis Hartig, who is retiring at the end of the month after nearly 30 years at The Pilot.

NORFOLK Dennis Hartig, a veteran editor at The Virginian-Pilot who has run the editorial pages for the past six years, will retire by the end of the year. "The greatest thrill I've had is working with incredible journalists every day on different stories," said Hartig, 60.

NORFOLK Plagued by advertising declines, The Virginian-Pilot is cutting at least 125 positions - or 10 percent of a 1,260-person work force - mostly through layoffs and shutting affiliated publications, publisher Maurice Jones said Friday. Cost-cutting measures, triggered by the sputtering economy, will include: - Shutting Link, a free daily newspaper geared to 18- to 34-year-olds.

NORFOLK Faced with a crush of calls and requests for more copies of Wednesday's newspaper on Barack Obama's presidential win, The Virginian-Pilot will print an additional 40,000 copies today. After an initial additional press run of 15,000 copies Wednesday morning, demand kept growing and 15,000 more were printed and delivered this morning, officials said. They weren't enough.

Dear readers, Today we debut an improved weather page. First, let me answer the obvious question: No, we have not shrunk the page or taken anything away. We have added a few features that we think you will like, and we have reverted to the original vertical format. More about that later.