[3] Unlike other primary campus publications, The DoG Street Journal and The Flat Hat, it received no funding from the college administration or student activity fee for any of its operations but rather from grants, subscriptions, advertising and donations.
[5] In March 2010, the paper celebrated its fifth anniversary in Miller Hall at the Mason School of Business with guests including Congressman Rob Wittman, William & Mary President W. Taylor Reveley III, Miss Virginia USA 2010 Samantha Casey, members of the Williamsburg City Council, senior business executives, alumni and faculty, and student leaders.
[10] The Virginia Informer had been outspoken against former President Nichol's decision to implement a policy in which a historic cross was removed from the nondenominational Wren Chapel unless requested by a student group as well as his management of College finances.
[14] In Fall 2009, the College administration fully amended university speech codes and William & Mary was designated a FIRE "Green Light" institution.
In Fall 2009 The Informer was the first publication to break the news of a massive wave of eviction orders for student renters violating the ordinance.
[citation needed] In October 2009, The Virginia Informer conducted a large-scale survey of 233 randomly selected on-campus students.