How Students Are Trying to Save Local News

Across the country, university programs are filling gaps in the coverage.

At twenty-one, just after her graduation from the University of Vermont, Holly Sullivan became the editor of the Winooski News, the sole paper in Vermont’s smallest city—spanning a mile and a half, with about eight thousand residents who speak more than thirty languages. In the course of a few months, Sullivan went from being a student to editing articles and a newsletter that serve the area at large, written entirely by university students. “The whole community is very engaged and also really seems to enjoy it,” Sullivan said. The Winooski News has around thirteen hundred subscribers.

“The whole community is very engaged and also really seems to enjoy it,” Sullivan said. She added that the Winooski News has around thirteen hundred subscribers.