By Nancy West, InDepthNH.org
How do you turn getting laid off as a Sunday newspaper editor into a wildly successful online news outlet with 32 employees and a $2.8 million a year budget?
Anne Galloway did just that in just about a dozen years starting out with a $16,000 budget, building the VTDigger into the largest newsroom in Vermont.
And she laid out exactly how she did it for InDepthNH.org’s series on the New Hampshire Sustainable News Summit Project that you can watch now on our YouTube page.
She didn’t have a big name as a reporter or editor when she started out.
“I started out by just covering the State House every day and supplemented that with some freelance material,” Galloway told her InDepthNH.org audience on Zoom Tuesday night.
“I published press releases and opinion pieces from the community and as my first reporter said, we did a really good job at playing a news organization on the web.”
Galloway and her organization have done far more than just play at news. Galloway broke the story about the Jay Peak scandal that continues to unfold today along with many other stories important to her ever-growing number of readers and supporters.
Galloway was a finalist for the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics, the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Freedom of Information Act Award for her investigation into allegations of foreign investor fraud at Jay Peak Resort.
Galloway was the third speaker in InDepthNH.org’s series after Northeastern University Professor and Media Nation blogger Dan Kennedy and Jason Pramas, founder of DigBoston. You can see them all on our YouTube page.
The fourth speaker will be author filmmaker Gloria Norris who will headline at our in-person event at the Derryfield Restaurant, Manchester, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 6 p.m. hosted by Laura Knoy. Norris is the author of “KooKooLand,” her memoir of growing up in the projects of Manchester. Norris serves on the board of the N.H. Center for Public Interest Journalism, publisher of InDepthNH.org.
Proof of vaccination and masks are required. A cocktail hour and hors d’oeuvres will be served beginning at 6 p.m., prior to Norris’ talk.
The events for our New Hampshire Sustainable News Summit project are sponsored by a special grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund.
