Burlington Free Press
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | Gannett Company |
| Publisher | Al Getler |
| Founded | 1827 (as the Free Press Weekly) |
| Headquarters | 100 Bank Street, Suite 700 Burlington, VT 05401  United States
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| Circulation | 20,166 Daily 27,830 Sunday |
| ISSN | 0894-8844 |
| OCLC number | 9390458 |
| Website | BurlingtonFreePress.com |
Burlington Free Press is a daily newspaper based in Burlington, Vermont, United States. With a circulation of about 20,166 daily and 27,830 on Sundays, it is the largest daily newspaper in Vermont.
The longtime editor Michael Townsend accepted early voluntary retirement in October 2015.
The newspaper has been hit by waves of layoffs over the past several years and employs 272 full-time employees in its Burlington headquarters. International news is usually reprinted stories supplied by the Associated Press and Reuters news services.
Burlington Free Press originally began as the Free Press Weekly, publishing its first issue in 1827. With use of the telegraph, the newspaper became an evening daily in 1848, although it did not publish a Sunday newspaper until 1965. With the purchase of the Burlington Times in 1868, the Free Press Association was founded. In 1882 the evening edition was canceled due to poor sales and an influx of morning edition readers. In 1961 a new corporation, Free Press Association, Inc., was organized by high-positioned Free Press personnel who purchased it from 50 stockholders. In 1971 the Free Press changed hands, merging with the Public Opinion and becoming a part of the Gannett Company.
In July 2008, the company announced they would raise the retail price of their newspapers, except on Sundays, from fifty cents to seventy-five cents. This did not affect the price for subscribers.
In December 2008, the Gannett Company announced a company-wide workforce reduction of ten percent. Burlington Free Press laid off six of its newsroom staff.
On January 19, 2009, the company introduced a "compactly-edited" daily newspaper, to circulate three days a week, with the full normal edition of Burlington Free Press appearing on the rest of the days of the week.
In April 2012, the Society of Professional Journalists awarded its 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism, and the Burlington Free Press was on the list twice. Burlington Free Press reporter Candace Page won for her story, Hard Lessons of the Tweed in the Features Reporting category for newspapers with a circulation less than 50,000. The Free Press staff was honored in the online deadline-reporting category for the stories, videos and social media reporting related to the shooting at the Occupy Burlington encampment Nov. 11. Included in the awards submission were tweets, videos and online stories from the first report of gun shots in City Hall Park to the tension between police and protesters later that evening.
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