How two nontraditional newsrooms in Vermont are winning readers Could their examples hold the key to fixing âThe Expanding News Desertâ? By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff,Updated December 28, 2020, 12:44 p.m. Email to a Friend Anne Galloway wondered if her journalism career might be over. It was January 2009 and the Sunday editor of the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus was among 16 employees abruptly laid off when the newspaperâs owner slashed positions in a round of budget cuts. âI knew I wanted to stay in journalism,â says Galloway. âBut there werenât many jobs in ...