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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Researchers are looking for ways to help snowshoe hares adapt to a changing climate. Plus, Vermont State Police investigate the non-fatal shooting of a Milton police officer, the state senate gives its preliminary approval to a ban on guns in Burlington bars, uncertainty about federal money for high speed internet infrastructure, and National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is this Saturday. -
Cars and climate change have annual early spring migrations for amphibians more treacherous. Plus, a judge orders the feds to keep a detained Columbia University student in Vermont, college presidents condemn the Trump Administration’s higher ed actions, the state wants to make the electric grid more resilient, and a measles outbreak in Quebec is over.
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Brave Little StateBetween 1945 and 1950, five people disappeared near Bennington. Seventy-five years later, the mystery has garnered a following around the globe. -
Brave Little StateMost towns have one, but no two are exactly the same — and their stories are still unfolding. -
Vermont Edition presents two BLS episodes. First, we hear about the U.S. Postal Service in Vermont. Then, we go hunting.
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Brave Little StateThe best way and probably the only way to answer a listener question about hunting in Vermont was to head into the woods ourselves. -
Brave Little StateIt's time! Another year, another batch of weird and wacky Vermont road names. -
Brave Little StateFrom local mail carriers to P.O. Boxes in general stores, the USPS is at the heart of many local communities. Residents in places like Elmore and Montpelier are determined to keep it that way. -
Brave Little StateBrave Little State investigates a persistent narrative about the rise in homelessness in Vermont. -
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.
