NEWPORT — Report For America has selected Vermont Public Radio to host a journalist next year to expand coverage of the Northeast Kingdom.
VPR’s Northeast Kingdom reporter will be one of 250 emerging journalists in 164 host news organizations to serve local communities across 46 states in the coming year.
Report For America will cover half the salary of the one-year-long appointment, with VPR and local fundraising initiatives covering the rest.
“VPR has been working toward more Vermonters hearing and seeing themselves in our coverage,” said Sarah Ashworth, Vice President of News. “Our reporter will live and work in the region and will weave the voices and perspectives of the Kingdom into our broader coverage of issues in Vermont.”
Report for America is a national service program that positions emerging journalists into local news organizations to report on under-covered issues and communities for a duration of one or two years.
Newsrooms were selected through a rigorous national competition, and Report For America announced that VTDigger and the Valley News would receive corps members next year.
“It’s a big deal that our region will receive three Report For America journalists,” said VPR President Scott Finn. “There’s been a scary drop in the number of journalists in Vermont, but with support from our members, we can preserve great journalism here and across rural America.”
We don’t need no stinkin Big City Reporter all we need is to read Frank Howard Mosers books
I’m beside myself with excitement…This will be almost as riveting as watching last springs ice melt on Lake Memphremagog (Or paint dry which is faster). Gotta get my transistor radio all tuned up & then bring on the broadcasting euphoria.
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This is terrific! There is so much to report on here, prior poster notwithstanding including our neighbors just across the border. I am really excited
Gary might be unimaginative or even benighted. The Kingdom is a beautiful corner of Vermont with creative artists and musicians, the best fishing and hunting, super breweries and cheese makers, and alternative agriculture farming. And there are serious issues that need investigative reporting, such as the mistreatmant of migrant farmworkers and the wholesale pollution of Lake Memphremagog by the Coventry landfill.