VTDigger reinvents local journalism: A conversation with Anne Galloway

To editors and executive directors of nonprofit news organizations, Anne Galloway's story will sound familiar: An experienced local newspaper editor, set adrift in a round of layoffs, starts her own nonprofit digital news enterprise, learns business skills on the job, produces community-changing journalism, and works herself to exhaustion in the process.

But Galloway's story is remarkable. She turned her idea for a news startup in Vermont into an inspiring enterprise with 19 full-time employees and an annual budget over $1.5 million.

The past few months have felt like something of a moment for VTDigger.

Its three-year, 250-stories-and-counting exposé into alleged fraud at the Jay Peak Resort has stamped it as a major investigative force in the region. It hired the first-ever Vermont-focused D.C. bureau chief to cover the state's delegation in Washington. It has been featured in the Columbia Journalism Review, NiemanLab and The New York Times as a new model for success in the nonprofit news movement. And it has secured a multimillion-dollar investment to dramatically improve business, technology, and reporting to bring it to a new level of sustainability.

So why has Digger succeeded where others have not? What can we all learn from Digger's accomplishments? What makes it unique and what makes it replicable?
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