VTDigger will have six reporters in the Vermont Statehouse this year covering a range of public policy issues, including energy, health care, state finance, criminal justice, politics, the environment, business and human services.
By way of introduction, here is our team for the 2014 legislative session.
Anne Galloway, founder of VTDigger, will be covering the state budget, human services and politics. This is her fifth legislative session. She can be reached via email at agalloway@vtdigger.org, and you can follow her on Twitter @GallowayVTD.
John Herrick
John Herrick is VTDigger’s energy and environment reporter. He is a 2013 graduate of the University of Vermont where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and minor in Spanish. He wrote for the university’s student newspaper, The Vermont Cynic, before interning and later freelancing for the Burlington Free Press. He came to VTDigger in June 2013 as an intern and helped to compile our campaign finance database. His diligence and hard work earned him a full-time job as a reporter. You can reach John at jherrick@vtdigger.org and follow him on Twitter @HerrickJohnny.
Laura Krantz
Laura Krantz is VTDigger’s criminal justice and corrections reporter. She moved to VTDigger in January 2014 from MetroWest Daily, a Gatehouse Media newspaper based in Framingham, Mass. She won the 2013 Morley Piper First Amendment Award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association for her investigation of the Ashland Police Department. She is skilled in the use of public records to find the real story. She is a 2010 graduate of Boston University, where she studied comparative religion. Laura can be reached at lkrantz@vtdigger.org, and you can follow her on Twitter @laurakrantz.
Jon Margolis is a freelance reporter who writes political columns for VTDigger. He is the author of “The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964,” left the Chicago Tribune early in 1995 after 23 years as Washington correspondent, sports writer, correspondent-at-large and general columnist.
Hilary Niles
Hilary Niles joins VTDigger as data specialist and business reporter. She returns to New England from the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, where she earned a master’s degree. While there, she worked at Investigative Reporters & Editors and covered state and local government for radio, print and the Web. She’s been a researcher-in-residence at American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop in Washington, D.C.; a reporter and community radio program director in New Hampshire; and, in Boston, a public radio producer. She studied English at the University of New Hampshire and documentary writing at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Maine. Hilary can be reached at hniles@vtdigger.org, and you can follow her on Twitter @nilesmedia.
Morgan True
Morgan True is VTDigger’s health care reporter. A Seattle native, he graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in journalism before working for several publications in Massachusetts. He came to VTDigger in December 2013 from The Brockton Daily Enterprise, where he covered government, schools and hospitals in a city of about 100,000 people. Before joining The Enterprise, he worked for The Associated Press in Concord, N.H., where he served as a relief reporter in the Statehouse. He previously worked for The Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger and as an intern at the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette. Many eyes are on Vermont as it moves toward universal health care coverage in 2017, and he is excited to be on the front lines. Morgan can be reached at mtrue@vtdigger.org, and you can follow him on Twitter @true_morgan.
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