Burgess Brown
Associate Producer, Engagement JournalismBurgess Brown is part of Vermont Public’s Engagement Journalism team. He is the associate 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 StateFinalists include questions about football, landfills and college closures.
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Brave Little StateBrave Little State investigates a persistent narrative about the rise in homelessness in Vermont.
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Brave Little StateBrave Little State tells the story of the secretive Space Research Corporation, and its founder Gerald Bull, whose talent and ambition led him down a perilous path.
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Brave Little StateIt’s year seven of our favorite Brave Little State tradition. And this year, tradition played a big role in all the stories behind the names we investigated: Lake Willoughby, Hells Peak Road and Pumpkin Harbor Road.
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Brave Little StateWe’ve all heard it. Some of us have uttered it. But can anyone definitively say where the phrase ‘jeezum crow’ came from?
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Brave Little StateWait times are long and clinicians are maxed out. Brave Little State takes a look at where the future of primary care is headed.
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Brave Little StatePublic transportation is critical for many people in Burlington and its neighboring towns. There were once big dreams to make it better, but now the system is instead facing cuts. What happened?
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Brave Little StateThere are some questions that we get in the Brave Little State inbox that keep us up at night. Like this one, about a tooth that’s stuck in a wall on East State Street in Montpelier.
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Brave Little StateDo you lift one finger off the steering wheel or two? When exactly do you do it — and what does it mean? Brave Little State sets out to write the unwritten rules of the road.
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Brave Little StateA smattering of Vermont and New Hampshire towns on either side of the Connecticut River are known collectively as the “Upper Valley.” We set out to find why.