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Regional Report: Employees Must Reapply For Jobs As Burlington Free Press 'Resets'

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb

Published October 10, 2014 at 8:01 AM EDT

The Burlington Free Presshas told its employees that they’ll have to re-apply for their jobs in the next few weeks. That announcement was made by the newspaper’s executive editor Mike Townsend.

As staff writer and political columnist for the newspaper Seven Days, Paul Heintz frequently writes about media issues and has been tracking this story.

VPR called Burlington Free Press executive editor Mike Townsend for comment on these issues, but the call was not returned.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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