Michelle Owens
Director of Marketing & Audience EngagementMichelle leads the team that oversees station branding and marketing, communications, audience services, events and audience engagement initiatives. She joined Vermont Public in 2002 as an administrative associate and has worn many hats in the areas of audience services, membership, marketing and communications.
She is originally from Connecticut and graduated from Boston University. She moved to Shoreham, Vermont on a whim in 2001 after a two-year stint as a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, expecting to stay for a year or two, tops. She now lives in Burlington with her family.
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Vermont Public has announced the first recipients of its Made Here Fund, an initiative to broaden and diversify storytelling in Vermont. Ten projects by content creators representing six Vermont counties will receive a total of $100,000 to produce pieces including short documentary and animated films, digital shorts and audio series. -
Vermont Public has hired two local media leaders to expand service on digital platforms and reach a broader and more diverse audience. April McCullum will join the newsroom as Digital Editor. Michael Dougherty will take on the role of Director of Digital Strategy.
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Vermont Public will broadcast Notes From America with Kai Wright from WYNC beginning Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023.
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Join us to celebrate 2 1/2 years of Safe & Sound: A Celebration of Vermont Music with our final program on New Year's Eve. Vermont Public has an exciting fresh lineup of music shows for Saturday evenings and we can't wait for you to hear it.
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Vermont Public has entered into an agreement with Vermont State University in Lyndonville to purchase the license of its campus radio station, WWLR 91.5 FM. The station will serve the Lyndonville and Saint Johnsbury area with Vermont Public’s 24-hour classical music network.
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Vermont Public and VTDigger have been selected by Report for America to host a journalist next year to expand the organizations’ coverage of housing and infrastructure. In an unprecedented collaboration between two of Vermont’s leading news outlets, the new reporter will cover two of the most vexing challenges facing Vermont: the availability, affordability and condition of housing, as well as aging infrastructure that is no longer serving its residents.
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You can support public media while providing books to children in our community. When you make a gift to Vermont Public through Saturday, Sept. 10, an anonymous supporter will donate one new, high-quality children's book to the Children's Literacy Foundation.
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When you make a gift to Vermont Public through Tuesday, November 29, 2022, the Vermont Community Foundation and its generous fundholders will donate the equivalent of 15 meals to the Vermont Foodbank to help Vermonters facing hunger and food insecurity.
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We recently announced a new local radio host lineup for All Things Considered, our afternoon news magazine program from NPR, as well as weekend mornings and early afternoons. We caught up with Mary Williams Engisch, Marlon Hyde and Jenn Jarecki recently; here are some things you probably don’t know about them.
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