Gannett Shakeup Leads to New Competition in Vermont Statehouse Coverage

By: Erin Mansfield | CJR

BURLINGTON, VT — As Vermont’s largest daily, theBurlington Free Press, assembles its version of Gannett’s “newsroom of the future,” its top editor vows that it will keep covering state government.

That means the paper will be fighting for news on an increasingly competitive beat—and even going up against its own former staff. The Free Press recently lost two of the state’s most established political reporters to a rival news organization.