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by Guy Page
Geeta Anand, a Dartmouth College grad, Rutland Herald court reporter, Wall Street Journal Pulitzer Prize-winning story reporter, and (most recently) Dean of University of California – Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been named editor-in-chief at VTDigger, Vermont’s largest news media operation.
VTDigger announced the new hire via email at 9:18 AM Wednesday, April 30.
Anand will lead a news staff of 20, not counting two interns. Founded in 2009 by Anne Galloway as Vermont’s first major online-only news outlet, VTDigger became a project of the nonprofit Vermont Journalism Trust in 2011. Anand succeeds interim Editor-in-Chief Neil Goswami, who replaced E-I-C Paul Heintz.
Quoting verbatim from her current Cal-Berkeley website page:
Anand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who serves as dean and professor at Berkeley Journalism. Her stories on corporate corruption won the Wall Street Journal a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, and she was lead reporter in a series on healthcare that was a finalist in 2003.
She wrote the non-fiction book, The Cure, about a dad’s fight to save his kids by starting a biotech company to make a medicine for their untreatable illness, which was made into the Harrison Ford movie Extraordinary Measures in 2010.
She worked as a journalist for 27 years, most recently as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in India. She began her career at a free weekly newspaper, Cape Cod News, and then covered local government and courts at the Rutland Herald in Vermont. At her next job at the Boston Globe, she served as City Hall bureau chief and then covered the Massachusetts State House.
She spent the next 17 years as a reporter and senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, where she covered the biotech beat and focused on investigative reporting. She spent nearly a decade in India, the country where she was born and raised, first as a foreign correspondent for the Journal and then The New York Times. She met her husband, Gregory Kroitzsh, in college. During her time as a foreign correspondent in India, he started Mumbai’s first microbrewery. They have two daughters who are in college in the U.S. She began teaching at Berkeley Journalism in 2018.
EDUCATION
Dartmouth College, B.A., History, Honours, Women’s Studies Certificate
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Staff of twenty at Vt Digger and Guy Page with a couple of scrappy reporters pump out 4x the news, with 100xmore accuracy.
She got her work cut out for her, wonder what her views on propaganda are? Might be interesting assignment for the folks at VDC, perhaps she’d be willing to go on the Friday program at 802 scoop creamy podcast!
Her salary is funded by some of the most well endowed, postmodern and cultural-Marxist foundations in this country.
I am impressed with her non-fiction book, “The Cure”, and it being made into a
movie. But with the rest of her background it will be a “wait and see”. Good idea
to have her on the Friday VTC program. Let’s hope she IS a true journalist and
does not have a preconceived agenda.
She would not have been hired absent the “preconceived agenda”.
Vermont Digger has shown its agenda over its decade and a half. To think they’ll change course with this hire is absurd and naive.
“Cultural Hegemony” is what they’re after and they are succeeding at the domination of the consciousness of the majority of Vermonters.
The new EIC has a resume that is certainly impressive. I am inclined to believe she took the job because she wanted to return to Vermont, as opposed to becoming EIC of VTDigger.
I say that because VTDigger is no longer the hard-hitting online journalism entity it once was. Its commitment to viewpoint diversity, in my opinion, has hit rock bottom.
I recently had published on the VDC a 3 part commentary on the status of public school education in both my home community of South Burlington and Vermont statewide.
Here is the link for Part I:
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/silverstein-school-data-shows-more-spending-worse-results/
I included data detailing academic achievement (or lack thereof) for Vermont public school students juxtaposed against spending (Vermont has the 2nd highest spending per pupil of all 50 states). I then compared those results to other states that spend significantly less but yet show MUCH better proficiency learning outcomes.
I included (in part III) a bizarre mind-numbing statement by Senate Majority leader Kesha Ram-Hinsdale:
“Society is failing our kids right now, and our teachers and our principals and our superintendents and our education staff are the ones doing their absolute best to save them. And I truly think we are worse off if someone who is leading this discussion and in the public sphere daily, is saying that our schools are failing,”
How interesting: “society” is failing our kids right now….not the educational system they are in and where learning is…or should..be taking place (!).
Ram Hinsdale blames Ed Secretary Sanders, on the job for one year (!), for speaking the truth about serious problems (both academic and fiscal) in Vermont’s education system, while praising those individuals in the school system who are doing “their absolute best” to save the kids.
Looking at the extraordinarily high percentage of students statewide (AND in wealthy communities like South Burlington) who score BELOW proficient (in some cases 50% and more) on in-state standardized tests created by an organization specifically chosen by Vermont for its commitment to DEI (!)….if educators in the school system are indeed doing their “very best” then the data is saying the state of Vermont has a very serious problem and more money has not and will NOT solve the problem.
All of this is a long preamble to say I submitted a condensed version of my 3-part Commentary to VTDigger and got no response. I sent an email to both VTDigger and Anne Galloway separately asking why VTDigger appears to have decided not to publish my Commentary on a topic actively being discussed in Vermont state government currently. What was the response? Deafening silence.
I fear VTDigger is concerned about alienating many of its readership by posting the hard truth about a state that has the 2nd highest spending per pupil of all 50 states, BUT students in that state display very significant deficiencies in learning outcomes on standardized exams.
The end of viewpoint diversity juxtaposed against refusing to publish Commentaries with hard data that detail a serious crisis in public school education in Vermont profiles an online journalistic endeavor that is in decline, and may never return to its former highly respected stature….even with a new EIC who has a very impressive resume.
Gerry, I read your commentaries. They’re more or less spot-on. Digger isn’t interested in them. Digger is interested in mind-control. That’s the Left’s global strategy: Dominating the consciousness of a people, that is their goal. It’s a spiritual battle. And it’s here where I’ve lost most readers.
The excuse i have received from VTDigger is that they have a backlog of commentaries. When I suggest they cover the issue themselves (topic is usually legislation that violates parental rights and puts minors at risk), and include the EIC in my email, I don’t hear back.
Wow, Digger is now a boughten paper that can afford Anand? Who woulda thunk it?
Langley. Capice?
Ask her if she’s going to open up the comment section.
Ask if she is going to “moderate” aka censor commentary.
Lol…man you guys could just ask such basic questions, and it would be amazing.
Did she have to swear that she’d say nothing positive about Trump, like John Rodgers said to David Z, our former Lt. Governor?
Oh do it…….have some fun.
I wonder why high status, highly compensated Californians are running away from Newscum’s liberal paradise? Is it because it’s burning to the ground? Is it because they don’t want to pay for all those liberal policies and services they supported, voted for, and brainwashed people to believe in? Is it because California is now a rotting, corrupted, money-sucking, crime-ridden cesspool? You notice they are all setting up shop in New England with their like-minded brotheren. No wonder New England mirrors the West Coast – USA bookends full of lunatic moonbats, grifters, and lying, liars from Liarsville.
There must be some reason that so many “Woke” are gravitating to Vermont.