This Week's Issue: It's All About Vermont Media
This week's print edition of Seven Days is our 2013 media issue — which you should also read on your iPhone or iPad with our new free app.
- Vermont's public-access TV channels may have big funding challenges as they face a possible "doomsday scenario."
- The state is home to lots of nationally famous journalists. Meet seven of them.
- State-run Vermont Life magazine is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but the publisher says he has a plan to turn it around.
- Burlington College film instructor Rick Winston has spent years researching a Burlington newspaper's role in McCarthy era witch hunts.
- Vermont food writers are flocking to the blogosphere.
- The Chester Telegraph brings online news to small-town Vermont.
- Media outlets and the ACLU are fighting to improve public records law — and Gov. Peter Shumlin is behind them.
- In non-media news, as the Legislature considers a three-year wind moratorium, we parse the polls to find out if Vermonters really support "industrial wind."
- And in Fair Game, Paul Heintz analyzes the evolution of Sen. Philip Baruth, rabble-rouser, to Sen. "Phil Baruth," political insider.
