About Waterbury Roundabout

Founded in May 2020

Waterbury Roundabout was created to provide local news coverage after our the weekly print newspaper, the Waterbury Record, folded in late March 2020.

The Roundabout’s main focus is covering news in Waterbury and Duxbury as well as in the Harwood Unified Union School District.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide readers with news about local government, schools, businesses, community organizations, events and the people who live, work and play in and around the Waterbury region. We hope readers will find our coverage a reliable source of objective, accurate information. We hope to provide a source of connection. Through photos and stories, we hope to hold up a mirror to our community.

Code of Ethics

Founded, led and overseen by professional journalists from diverse backgrounds, Waterbury Roundabout looks to the national trade association the Society of Professional Journalists and its Code of Ethics for its guiding benchmarks of reporting and newsroom best practices. We embrace the SPJ code and its emphasis on accuracy, fairness and integrity.

SPJ’s code lists four overall principles as the foundation of ethical journalism: 

• Seek Truth and Report It

• Minimize Harm

• Act Independently

• Be Accountable and Transparent

Find out more from the Society of Professional Journalists here. 

Our Policies 

Find our policies regarding Editorial Independence, Conflicts of Interest, Donor and Financial Transparency on our Policies page. Submission policies covering news releases, announcements, obituaries, comments and corrections can be found on our Submit page.

Our Contributors

Overseeing and contributing to coverage posted on this site are Waterbury residents Lisa Scagliotti, Anne Imhoff and Gordon Miller.

A longtime news reporter and editor in Vermont, Scagliotti in early 2020 worked as a mentor to student journalists at the University of Vermont. It was from that program that Waterbury Roundabout was created. She is the Roundabout’s main full-time staffer, working as both editor and staff writer.

Imhoff formerly published Exit 10, the monthly newspaper serving the Waterbury area, and remains an active member in the Waterbury community and a sounding board for the Roundabout.

A familiar face at many local events, Miller is a professional news and commercial photographer whose work was a staple in the Waterbury Record. The vast majority of images published by the Roundabout are his photographs. In addition to the Roundabout, Miller continues to work regularly for the Vermont Community Newspaper Group, mainly shooting for the Stowe Reporter and the Morrisville News & Citizen.    

Also contributing to this project are UVM student journalists from the Community News Service project, part of UVM’s Reporting and Documentary Storytelling program in the Center for Research on Vermont. Student reporters rotate each semester during the academic year and summer sessions. UVM graduate Julia Bailey-Wells began in that program and designed and continues to work for the Roundabout maintaining this site, creating the This Week in Waterbury weekly email newsletter, and designing ads and sponsorship graphics. 

Waterbury Roundabout works with a number of local and Vermont freelance journalists and photographers who contribute on a wide array of stories from event coverage to in-depth features and spot news coverage. We are grateful to those in our community with journalism experience who lend their time and talent to help us produce our local news coverage.

Other local college and high school students interested in journalism are encouraged to participate as volunteer contributors to gain skills and experience.

OUR PARTNERS

Our fiscal sponsor is Vermont Journalism Trust, the parent nonprofit to VTDigger.org, Vermont’s leading statewide nonprofit online news organization. Waterbury Roundabout occasionally shares stories with and from VTDigger as well.

By sponsoring Waterbury Roundabout, Vermont Journalism Trust lends its 501(c)3 status to allow for our supporters to make tax-deductible donations and it will enable Waterbury Roundabout to seek grant funding. 

Waterbury Roundabout occasionally shares news stories from and with the daily Barre-Montpelier Times Argus newspaper and the weekly Valley Reporter newspaper in Waitsfield. They are on local newsstands and online at timesargus.com and valleyreporter.com.

Waterbury Roundabout shares local news highlights on WDEV most Mondays just before 5 p.m.