In 2019, The University of Vermont launched a program called the Community News Service: connecting student reporters to local publications across the state with support from mentors that the university provides. So far, the program has produced a thousand stories for local outlets and participated in launching two hyper-local publications in news deserts.
Program coordinator Richard Watts spoke to CJR about the program’s growth, building a civic infrastructure, and connecting needs to resources. Read the entire article at The Journalism Crisis Project.
Story by the Columbia Journalism Review