UVM trustees hear the Center for Community Center for Strengthening the Vital Coating – Vermont Bus

A UVM student, part of the Center for News from Reporters, conducts an interview outside the UVM medical center. (Photo by Andy Dubak)

The Center’s directors are planning in detail to grow and strengthen the reporting of students locally through Vermont through a state -owned news service

By Lauren Milideo, UVM

Director Richard Watts and Managing Director Meg Little Riley of the Community News Center (CCN) presented his strategy for the cultivation and strengthening of students across the country at the University of Vermont and the State Agricultural Council of the Board of Trustees -Feb. 1. At the heart of the CCN National Strategy is its home laboratory: the Public News Service, which provides reporting to the local news partners in Vermont.

Board members have learned of CCN’s efforts to change the media ecosystem in the Deserts of News in the United States. The news of the news is defined as American counties that have only one local newsletters, or none. Such places lose the benefits that access to local news is usually given, said Watts and Riley. These include higher turnout, strong civil attachment and commitment and reduced guerrilla and polarization, they explained.

With local news organizations closed in the United States and over 1300 campuses located in news deserts, college students are perfectly located to report local news and restore some of these civic and social benefits, Watts and Riley said. From small cities in college to large cities, student journalists produce tens of thousands of stories and reach millions of people every year, covering municipal news that larger regional retail outlets often neglect.

Here, in Vermont, in 2024, about 80 UVM students at CCN’s Newsroom Campus provided the reflection of 15 local news partners from Rutland Herald to Gazette Hardwick. They produced more than 350 stories about Vermont communities, Watts and Reilly said, including critical accounting for the 2024 elections and other events.

Such a student, Charlotte Oliver, a higher specialty Global Research, is already a qualified reporter who has won the New England and Print Association Scholarship. Oliver now plans to continue a career in journalism after graduation, Watts and Rayli said.

CCN explores ways to serve every school and college at UVM and create opportunities for students in specialties. For example, they said, through a partnership with a sophisticated system institute, CCN is now sharing an engineer for data visualization that works with students to create cards and a graphic story of stories. Meanwhile, Ralely and Watts noted, UVM’s CCN, serves as a center for such work in dozens of other universities across the country, will sponsor a National Community News Conference and is represented in more than 40 news stories in the United States.

In another business held at the meeting, the Board of Trustees:

• He held discussions related to the national demand for the 28th president of the university.
• A presentation was presented by the President of the UVM Association of UVM Tremblai, emphasized by the achievements of the last semester by the Association of Student Graduates, the implementation of a new system for the evaluation of graduates and various partnership and programming news.
• He congratulated the UVM men’s football team for their season of the National Championship and watched a video shared by the temporary President Patricia Prelock, emphasizing the team’s achievements and a recent parade in Burlington to celebrate the Vermont Community Championship.
• I listened to the Acting Provocation Report Linda Shanler, who gave updates to the dinner to recognize the faculty, the planetary health initiative, the data summit and the open science, and a wide range of other grants, programs and achievements in UVM.
• Taken educational actions, including the approval of the creation of BS on agricology and the creation of BS in the ecological landscape planning and design at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; The creation of a minor in the civil commitment at Patrick Lihi College and the College of Arts and Sciences; The establishment of a bachelor’s certificate of music teacher at the College of Arts and Sciences; the establishment of a bachelor’s certificate in the pathology of the pathology of the speech language at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences; and the creation of a bachelor’s certificate in autonomy and robotics at the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.
• He received a report from the Budget, Finance and Investment Committee, which provided a review of key budget assumptions and a multi -year strategy related to the 2026 budget.

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