VTDigger Helped Save Local Journalism in Vermont. Now It’s Fighting to Stabilize After Its Own Bad News. - The Boston Globe

VTDigger helped save local journalism in Vermont. Now it’s fighting to stabilize after its own bad news. - The Boston Globe

Executive departures, financial challenges, and a tense contract negotiation with its editorial union has left VTDigger on unstable footing.

Trouble in nonprofit paradise: Low pay, AI worries and a restive union lead to turmoil at VTDigger

The Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. Photo (cc) 2015 by Dan Kennedy. On Monday, Joshua Benton reported for Nieman Lab that VTDigger was the 17th-most-trafficked nonprofit news website in the U.S., with about 800,000 visits in January, the most recent month for which figures were available. That’s quite an accomplishment for a media outlet operating in a state where, as legend has it, there are more cows than people. (Not actually true.) Follow …