Kids FM
For most kids, the bell signaling the end of school hours is the most pleasing sound they will hear all day. In Pavlovian fashion, when the schoolbell rings, students race to their lockers, stuff...
View ArticleAll in the Media Family
It’s no secret that the media industry is going through a period of disruptive transformation. Daily newspapers and TV stations around the country are struggling to chart their futures in the age of...
View ArticleBoxed In
Many Vermonters breathed a sigh of relief earlier this spring when Congress spared the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which funds both Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio —...
View ArticleBig Fish
Sleepy Charlotte was the epicenter of a media coup this week. Publishing giant Meredith Corporation snapped up EatingWell Media Group, the thriving company that has “lived” and prospered in the bucolic...
View ArticleBurlington Free Press Wages a Battle — for Documents and Headlines
There hasn’t been much real news to report since the mysterious June 8 disappearance of William and Lorraine Currier of Essex. But that hasn’t stopped the Burlington Free Press from generating a small...
View ArticleWhat Would Jesus Broadcast?
Vermont might seem an unlikely place to find a thriving Christian radio chain. For starters, the Green Mountain State memorably tied New Hampshire for least religious in the nation in a 2009 Pew...
View ArticleNew Burlington Arts Magazine Offers Further Evidence That Print Isn't Dead
It has to be a good sign for the publishing world that even in this online era, a 27-year-old would invest a good chunk of his own cash into launching a magazine — printed on paper. Either that or Ben...
View ArticleTalking with Thom
Has America’s left wing found its Rush Limbaugh? Thom Hartmann now hosts one of the most successful such programs — of any political stripe — in the United States. His internationally syndicated,...
View ArticleEarlier Deadlines and a Wrecked Press Imperil the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
Monday’s print edition of the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus had no mention of the Marshfield Dam, which the whole preceding night had been poised to flood the capital area as a result of Tropical Storm...
View ArticleFifteen Minutes? How the National Media Reported on Irene in Vermont
Once it became clear that Hurricane Irene was a major story in Vermont — and a nonstory almost everywhere else — the national news media poured in. Correspondents from CNN, CBS News, the New York...
View ArticleUpdating the News
It’s deadline day at the Vermont Cynic, the University of Vermont’s student newspaper, and a crew of editors and designers is putting the finishing touches on the last issue of the fall semester. The...
View ArticleWhat Is Bruce Lisman Up To?
You can hardly turn on local radio these days without hearing one of those ads from Campaign for Vermont, the supposedly apolitical “policy campaign” launched by Shelburne resident and ex-Wall Street...
View ArticleShould the Burlington Free Press Share Its Almost-Pulitzer Glory?
The Burlington Free Press made news last month when it was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize — the most prestigious award in journalism. The Pulitzer board did not pick a winner this year in the...
View ArticleWhat a Wiener! Hobbes the Dachshund Transforms Talk Radio in Vermont
Bruce Zeman’s daily talk-radio show, “The Wake-Up Crew with Bruce and Hobbes,” is the audio equivalent of a morning face lick. His sidekick on WVTK, Hobbes, is America’s first and only full-time canine...
View ArticleNot-So-Free Press
For a time this spring, the biggest story in the Burlington Free Press appeared to be … itself. Over the course of three months, Vermont’s largest daily newspaper ran more than two dozen stories and...
View ArticleA Decade of Daysies
8/10/12: The 10th Annual Seven Daysies Awards was a chance for Seven Days' readers to recognize the best and the brightest local restaurants, businesses, artists, blogs and activities.Thanks to all of...
View ArticleReality TV Descends on a Middlebury Car Dealership
A GMC and Ford automobile dealership in sleepy Middlebury is the unlikely star of a new reality television series, slated to air this January on GSN (formerly the Game Show Network). What prompted Los...
View ArticleOffender Bender
The reporter charged with covering cops and courts for the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus knows a thing or two about both. That’s because the reporter, Eric Blaisdell, is a registered sex offender who...
View ArticleDid Someone Miss the Memo on Prisons' List of Banned Magazines?
Two staff members of a local housing action group were attending a recent training session for prospective volunteers at Chittenden Regional Corrrectional Facility, a women’s prison in South...
View ArticleDon't Ask, Not Gonna Tell
One question we journalists frequently hear is “Where do you get your story ideas?” The answer is often from you, our readers. Each year, our staff receives thousands of letters, phone calls, emails,...
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