FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 30, 2010
Contact:
Cathy Resmer, Seven Days Associate Publisher / Web Editor
802-864-5684
or cathy@sevendaysvt.com
Vermont’s Largest Independent Newsweekly Hires
Three Recent Grads
Seven Days, Vermont’s only alternative print and
online weekly, has hired three recent college graduates for editorial, design
and web positions.
Tyler Machado, a 2010 graduate of St.
Michael’s College, is applying his B.A. in journalism and mass communications
as the deputy online editor for sevendaysvt.com. Machado was the tech editor
for St. Michael’s online news publication, The ECHO. As a senior, he
interned as a web developer for Union Street Media and Vermont’s Department of
Forests, Parks and Recreation. He rebuilt the state parks website. Machado, 22,
also reviews music for Seven Days.
Morrisville native Celia Hazard, 23, joined Seven Days‘ production department
as a graphic designer this spring. Hazard attended Peoples Academy High School in
Morrisville, and is a 2009 graduate of Parsons The New School of Design in New
York City. She was the lead designer for Seven Days‘ 2010 What’s Good:
The Students’ Off-Campus Guide to Burlington, which is now available at colleges and
other locations in the Burlington area.
Megan James, a 2006 graduate of Middlebury College,
has joined Seven Days‘ editorial team as a part-time arts writer, primarily covering
dance, theater, literature and visual art. Previously, James was a reporter at
the Addison Independent. She moved to New York City in 2008, where she was a
reporter for the Riverdale Press. 27-year-old James currently resides in
Montpelier, and in her spare time grows organic vegetables and cares for
free-range animals as an apprentice at Northfield’s Green Mountain Girls’ Farm.
Machado and James were hired for what are both new
positions at Seven Days. “Even in this economy, demand for our content
continues to grow,” says publisher and co-editor Paula Routly. “It’s heartening
to be able to find talented, hard-working young employees who are looking to
put down roots in Vermont.”
Seven Days publishes a free weekly newspaper every
Wednesday, which is distributed at more than 1000 locations in northern and
central Vermont, and Plattsburgh, New York. The company, founded in 1995 by
Routly and Pamela Polston, celebrates its 15th anniversary this September.
Seven Days — http://sevendaysvt.com — is Vermont’s
largest independent newsweekly and an award-winning source of news, opinion,
arts info, job listings, personals and classifieds. Seven Days also publishes
7
Nights: The Seven Days Guide to Vermont Restaurants and Bars, What’s Good: The
Students’ Off-Campus Guide to Burlington and three e-newsletters: “NOW: Notes on the
Weekend,” “Bite Club” and “Daily 7.”
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