Burgess Brown
ProducerBurgess Brown is part of Vermont Public’s Engagement Journalism team. He is the producer for Brave Little State, the station's people-powered journalism project.
Before joining Vermont Public, Burgess developed community-driven media projects in news deserts with Internews’ Listening Post Collective and produced Trace Material, a podcast about design and public health from The New School. He got his start at Georgia Public Broadcasting in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. Burgess studied media at Mercer University and urbanism at Parsons School of Design at The New School.
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Brave Little StateExploring the stuff — and stories — we usually keep stored away. -
Brave Little StateA story about the mess a toxic industry left behind and the fight over how to clean it up. -
Brave Little StateFinalists include questions about gas prices, abandoned pharmacies and a Vermont town with a lot of twins. -
Brave Little StateVermont has among the weakest forms of county government in the United States, placing a big burden on towns. Is there a better way forward? -
A recent episode of Brave Little State looks at how Rutland has changed over the decades.
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Brave Little StateQuestion-asker Manny recently got out of prison. He’s curious about finding a place where he could stay sober while readjusting to life outside a prison cell. It turns out, his options look different today than they would have even a few years ago. -
Brave Little StateRutland — or, “RutVegas” — gets a pretty bad rap. But some residents say there’s a side of the city most people are missing. -
Brave Little StateIt’s a Brave Little State milestone! Vermont Public’s listener-powered journalism podcast published its 200th episode. To celebrate, the team set themselves a challenge: answer 20 listener questions in a single episode. -
A recent episode answers the question: Who uses a park and ride?
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Brave Little StateThree reporters spent 12 straight hours at one of the busiest park and rides in the state — on one of the busiest travel days of the year — to get to know Vermont from a new perspective.
