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StoryCorps, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving and sharing the stories of people from all backgrounds and beliefs, comes to Harmony Lot in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont from July 5 - August 2 to record in-person and virtual interviews, as part of its Mobile Tour.
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Vermont Public has partnered with Front Porch Forum on outreach efforts for its Citizens Agenda initiative during the 2024 election season.
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Vermont Public has won four national awards for its coverage in 2023 from the Public Media Journalists Association.
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A new voice is keeping an Eye on the Sky: meteorologist Megan Duncan will create and produce forecasts beginning this month for the venerable weather service from the Fairbanks Museum and Vermont Public. Duncan is the museum’s first female meteorologist. She’ll join Mark Breen and Lawrence Hayes, taking over for Steve Maleski, who is retiring this summer.
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The Canadian Radio and Television Commission has approved a license for a new country music station at 107.9 FM in Joliette, Quebec, 35 miles northeast of downtown Montreal. As a result, listeners in the Montreal region may lose clear reception of Vermont Public's main station as well as its HD-2 and HD-3 channels.
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Vermont Public has released two original short films by local content creators as part of its Made Here Fund, which aims to broaden and diversify Vermont storytelling. "Love of the Land" and "I Have Something to Get Off My Chest" are available now at vermontpublic.org, on PBS platforms and on YouTube.
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Vermont Public is one of seven stations across the country selected to receive training and production assistance to collaborate on StoryCorps’ One Small Step initiative, an effort to bring strangers with different political beliefs together for a conversation—not to debate politics, but to get to know each other as people.
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Vermont Public has been honored with five 2024 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for its journalism in 2023 from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).
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Vermont Public has collaborated with the award-winning PBS science series NOVA for a second year to produce and distribute digital-first content as part of the series’ national Science & Society initiative.
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Lately there's been fresh discussion about NPR's editorial integrity and whether it has a liberal bias. At Vermont Public, we see challenging the status quo and "conventional wisdom" as part of our responsibility as a local media organization.