Leaders of the newly formed Vermont Journalism Coalition (VJC) and the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF), as well as Senator Andrew Perchlik and Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas, will hold a joint press conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday, February 4 in the Cedar Creek Room of the State House in Montpelier.
VCF President and CEO Dan Smith and a representative from VJC will outline key findings from the newly released Vermont News & Information Ecosystem Report. Commissioned by VCF’s Press Forward initiative, the report assesses the current state of local news in Vermont, identifying opportunities to strengthen news access, newsroom sustainability, and local media coordination statewide.
Senator Perchlik and Secretary Copeland Hanzas will give remarks about the taxpayer-funded Local Civic Journalism Awards, a program designed to steer public support and interest toward fact-based media outlets that focus primarily on local news.
Recipients of this inaugural round of awards, representing a broad cross-section of local and regional news organizations from across the state, will be recognized.
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Does this mean there might be fair reporting and with knowledge, a better election process?
Is that sarcasm ?
‘Paul Heintz, a senior adviser to the Center for Community News, convened the selection panel.’
Heintz was VTDigger’s Editor in Chief and started working for The Boston Globe just a few days ago.
The state shouldn’t have ANY role in journalism. Not promoting it, and especially not funding it.
With taxpayer funding, TEL. LIE. VISION, will have the ability to spread more lies and be only held accountable to the people who fund them. Comment from Richard Day with no apology. Release all the Epstein files. ONE NATION UNDER BLACKMAIL author WHITNEY WEBB. The smell of Epstein is in the air in Vermont.
Got to make up for the usaid shortfall 🙂
Have to have favors in the press
Senator Perchlik and Secretary Copeland Hanzas ?
Their report “assesses the current state of local news in Vermont, identifying opportunities to strengthen news access, newsroom sustainability, and local media coordination statewide.”
Yea, I’m sure that will be unbiased……. They are both tooks of the far, far left .
Trump voters have made clear that we want NO state/federal sponsored media any more. I say “any more” because we taxpayers have been funding public media for decades, and dont like paying for left-biased propaganda.
You need to remember, Trump voters don’t count or any GOP for that matter, the only votes that matter today are Democrat . Prominent Democrats nationwide are calling for ‘a reckoning, with execution of him and not only cabinet but also supporters’