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Are you a resourceful, language‑loving reporter looking for a collaborative newsroom?

Come write stories and make videos about Vermont’s largest city—home to Ben & Jerry’s, Bernie Sanders, and the Burlington Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network.

As our city reporter, you’ll lead Burlington coverage everyday with a beat that goes beyond dull meeting recaps. You’ll have the opportunity to profile people and places; burrow into issues such as our housing crisis, homelessness, and addiction; and switch easily between storyteller and watchdog modes while covering the city from all angles.

We’re seeking someone eager to trawl public records, listen to locals, and craft impact‑focused stories that help people understand our community. This job offers the chance to drive a beat in a competitive media scene and get out in the field— we want a journalist who can track down sources and deliver work that shows life on the ground. The job relies on producing solid stories at a regular clip:
We want you to be as enterprising in quick turns as you are with in‑depth stories. Building sources and leads with strong beat coverage opens up avenues for investigations and more ambitious pieces. This is a hybrid role:
You can divide your time between home and the office.

You’ll be joining a tight team led by a recently hired editor who’s looking to strengthen our local news package and trust with audiences. Our reporters enjoy a newsroom focused on workshopping, coaching, and finding ways to tell stories others aren’t. Plus:
We do pies for birthdays.

While we remain centered on written articles—and still love the smell of news ink— we’re looking for someone capable in the digital realm and comfortable meeting audiences where they are via vertical video stories. This is a new effort in which you can experiment and lead our local market.

Burlington is really more like a big town. (We’ve only got 45,000 residents, after all.) It’s the economic and cultural capital of Vermont with a longstanding arts and music scene, acclaimed restaurants and craft breweries and easy access to the Green Mountains and Adirondacks across Lake Champlain. Outdoor recreation abounds here: bike paths, ski resorts, hiking trails, lakes. The University of Vermont and its medical center, two of the state’s largest employers, are based in the city.

Burlington’s role as Vermont’s population hub—and its urban feel in a mostly rural state—gives it great potential for a curious journalist.

As a state, we take a lot of pride in our stewardship of the environment, artisan food and communities that have some of the highest civic engagement in the country. We buck national trends in lots of ways—but Vermont is more complex than the holiday‑card picture people often envision, and as a reporter with us you’ll have the chance to interrogate those ideas.

• At least one to three years in journalism—…