Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s independent newsweekly,Seven Days, has hired three experienced writers to join its editorial staff. They include a new Sate House reporter, an arts reporter, and one staff reporter.
Kevin McCallum, who shared in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, will joinSeven Days’ Statehouse bureau in January. The veteran journalist spent 13 years as a business and then city hall reporter for thePress Democratof Santa Rosa, California. There, he was part of a team that won the Pulitzerfor its coverage of the wildfires that devastated Sonoma Countyin October 2017. McCallum spent the past several months driving his family east in an RV in hopes of resettling in his native New England.
Derek Brouwer, an award-winning Montana journalist, will soon make his own journey east. He’ll join theSeven Daysnews team in January as a staff writer. Brouwer cut his teeth at theHelena Independent RecordandBillings Gazettebefore taking a job with the alternative weeklyMissoula Independentin July 2015. Since the paper closed in September, he’s continued to cover Montana’s economy through the grant-funded Long Streets Project.
Chelsea Edgarmarked her first day onSeven Days’arts and culture desk last month witha cover storyon real estate developer Pritam Singh’s ownership of a sizable slice of South Woodstock. A Middlebury College grad, Edgar had been freelancing forSeven Dayssince September and previously contributed to BuzzFeed andPhiladelphiamagazine. She got her start in the business interning for NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
McCallum, Brouwer and Edgar join a robust staff of nearly 25 writers and editors at the Burlington-based weekly.
“These are skilled reporters with broad experience and real writing chops,” said publisher and coeditor Paula Routly. “We’re thrilled to attract such talent to Vermont.”
AboutSeven Days
Da Capo Publishing Inc., dbaSeven Days, was founded by Pamela Polston and Paula Routly in 1995, and is now owned by Polston and Routly, as well as deputy publisher Cathy Resmer and associate publishers Don Eggert and Colby Roberts. In addition to its seven free publications, the company also produces several annual events, theStuck in Vermontvideo series and hosts aticketing website,job boardanddating service. Its award-winning staff has been recognized by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the Parenting Media Association, the New England Newspaper and Press Association and the Vermont Press Association.
Seven Dayshas been named Business of the Year by both the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Burlington Business Association. In 2013,Editor & PublisherselectedSeven Daysfor inclusion in its annual feature, “10 Newspapers That Do It Right.” In 2015, Polston and Routly were inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame. The same honor was bestowed onSeven Days’consulting editor, Candace Page, in 2017.
Source:December 5, 2018 — Seven Days