Senior editor Jim Welch will serve as interim executive director as the board undertakes a search for Galloway’s successor.
From the Board: VTDigger founder Anne Galloway steps down as executive director
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From the Editor: Paying VTDigger forward
I’m stepping back from management of VTDigger and the Vermont Journalism Trust to become the founder and editor-at-large.
VTDigger wins top honors for investigative reporting, photography and social media
Among the dozen awards VTDigger won at the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s annual conference in Boston were five first-place finishes.
VTDigger launches program to make its journalism free to Vermont community weeklies
The nonprofit news organization is providing its stories to participating weeklies in order to support those hit hard by declining print revenues and the knock-on effects of Covid-19.
VTDigger hires political, policy and regional reporters
The new staff will join Vermont’s largest newsroom, which has grown over the past year to 24 journalists.
Waterbury Roundabout and VTDigger’s parent nonprofit team up to support fundraising, grant-seeking
Under the agreement, the Vermont Journalism Trust will become fiscal sponsor of the Waterbury Roundabout.
VTDigger hires veteran WBUR journalist, fills new creative director and regional reporter positions
Fred Thys and Lana Cohen will join the statewide nonprofit’s news team. Taylor Haynes and Sadie Goldfarb recently joined VTDigger’s business office.
VTDigger wins top honors at first NENPA awards
The nonprofit news outlet won first place for general excellence, local election coverage, multimedia coverage, photography and digital strategy excellence.
Records requests blocked as court seals files in ex-police officer assault case
Both VTDigger and Vermont Public Radio are seeking documents related to Attorney General TJ Donovan’s decision to drop charges against the former St. Albans officer, Zachary Pigeon. The records have effectively disappeared.
Vermont Conversation: Local media reckons with its own racism and sexism
Following a letter urging journalists to address bias in their reporting, two media leaders and two signatories of the letter discuss the need for change.
Letter to Vermont journalists calls for an end to gender bias in the media
Signed by more than 50 prominent Vermonters, the letter asks the state's press corps to confront "sexism, gender bias and racism in reporting."
State pays $36,000 to VTDigger for costs in public records lawsuit
The payment ends a long legal battle between the news organization and the state that led to the release of more than 100 documents, including a confidential agreement reached with the former director of the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield.
AG deliberately misinterprets public records ruling, secretary of state says
Secretary of State Jim Condos says Donovan is using a ‘twisted interpretation’ to charge for copies for taking cellphone photos.
John Walters joins VTDigger staff
Walters, a blogger and formerly a columnist for Seven Days, will analyze Statehouse action. 'I'm excited to hang out my shingle at VTDigger,' he said.
