Executive Speaks On The Transition Of The Herald And Times-Argus

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published September 19, 2016 at 10:07 AM EDT

The sale of the Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus was finalized Friday afternoon.

The papers were sold at an undisclosed price to Reade Brower, principal owner of MaineToday Media and Chip Harris, the former CEO of Upper Valley Press. The Upper Valley Press has been printing both papers since 2011.

The sale of the Herald and Time-Argus was announced after shortly after news broke that checks to some newsroom staffers had bounced, and details emerged about the financial struggles of the papers.

VPR spoke to Chris Miles, CEO of Alliance Press and the executive in charge of the transition in the sale of the papers.

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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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