This is YOUR chance to talk back to the Valley News!
This Saturday, May 11, 2 p.m., join us at the Norman Williams Public Library for a lively 90-minute panel featuring the editor of the
Valley News
, Maggie Cassidy.
In this second of three presentations on “Vermont Journalism in Turbulent Times,” featuring leading Upper Valley journalists, you’ll get the inside scoop on how the “sausage” is made at this leading daily online and print newspaper.
Ms. Cassidy was named editor of the
Valley News
last November, the first female editor and the paper’s youngest. The longtime outgoing editor at the time said Ms. Cassidy would bridge the gap between “young and old,” the old being principles of good journalism, the new in applying those principles to new forms of journalism. In the last 20 years, old-line newspapers have crashed in a sea of social media.
The “Turbulent Times” series, sponsored by The Learning Lab, addresses the issue: How are Vermont journalists dealing with this fast-paced age of internet and social media communications, 24/7 news coverage, a polarized and fragmented public, “fake news” and financial pressures on traditional media?
The panel includes four retired journalists from Woodstock: John Mathews (Washington Evening Star, NBC News, who will moderate the Cassidy panel), Robert Hager (NBC News), Sandy Gilmour (NBC, CBS News) and Karen Gilmour (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, CBS Morning News).
VTDigger founder Anne Galloway spoke last Saturday, May 4;
Vermont Standard
president and owner Phil Camp will be featured Saturday, May 18 in a panel moderated by Bob Hager. All panels run from 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
