VTDigger.org recognized by national media groups
The Knight Foundation formally announced grant awards last week, including a matching grant to the Vermont Community Foundation that will benefit VTDigger.org; Poynter.org included VTDigger.org in stories about the investigative and entrepreneurial news landscape in the United States.
Updated: Online resources for victims of Irene
State and local agencies offer advice on emergency and flood recovery services.
How a political smear went viral
Compiled by VTdigger.org, via Internet search-engine Google, here is a representative sample of the war of words that coursed through Vermont’s political bloodstream from early-March to the Nov. 2 election, in print, press releases, the Internet and over the airwaves.
The X factor: A voter’s guide to Vermont’s 2010 election for governor
Every Vermonter’s mind’s eye will picture each candidate up there on the fifth floor of the Pavilion State Office Building governing Vermont when tough times come — as they always do.
Spreading the News Part 2: The History of Newspaper Reporting in Vermont
The hours were grueling, the pay modest (about $250 per week for the top reporters in the early 1970s), but the influence of the State House reporters was considerable, usually because they knew more about what was going on each day than most of the legislators themselves.
Spreading the News Part I: The History of Newspaper Reporting in Vermont
Newspaper reporting in Vermont, as Weston Cate, a former head of the Vermont Historical Society, once said, represents one of numerous holes that still exist in Vermont history books. Most Vermont reporters seem to have written about almost everyone but themselves.
