Seven Days newspaper family hires three new employees

Thanks to JB McKinley, editor of the News & Citizen, for passing along this press release of three new hires in the Seven Days family of publications.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- January 21, 2011
Contact: Paula Routly
(802) 864-5684 or paula@sevendaysvt.com

Burlington-based Da Capo Publishing Announces Three New Hires
Seven Days brings on a graphic designer and a food writer; Kids VT gets an associate editor

Corin Hirsch, a graduate of the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism, has joined Seven Days’ editorial team as a food writer. Hirsch was most recently a food columnist at the Eagle Times in Claremont, N.H. While living there, she taught journalism at Lebanon College. New York native Hirsch also worked as a fact checker for The Nation magazine. She holds a master’s of fine arts degree, and spent several years working in art direction.

Brooke Bousquet, a Middletown Springs native, has joined the Seven Days production department as a graphic designer. Bousquet, a graduate of Castleton State College, was most recently a designer at the St. Albans Messenger. Bousquet also worked as a designer at the Valley Voice in Middlebury and The World in Barre.

Kate Laddison, a Georgia, Vt., native, has joined Kids VT as the associate editor. Laddison most recently managed a team of technical writers and regulatory specialists at a local medical software company, but she brings years of journalism experience to this position. Laddison left Vermont to attend Emerson College in Boston and returned to work as a reporter and editor for both the St. Albans Messenger and the County Courier in Enosburg Falls. She’s looking forward to returning to journalism. Laddison and her husband live in St. Albans with their 3-year-old son.

Seven Days is Vermont’s largest independent newsweekly and an award-winning source of news, opinion, art and music reviews, job listings, personals and classifieds. The paper is distributed free every Wednesday at more than 1000 locations in northern and central Vermont, and Plattsburgh, N.Y. Its website, sevendaysvt.com <http://sevendaysvt.com> , includes web-only content, such as weekly episodes of the popular video series, “Stuck in Vermont.”

Seven Days also publishes 7 Nights: The Seven Days Guide to Vermont Restaurants and Bars, What’s Good: The Off-Campus Burlington Guide, and three e-newsletters: “NOW: Notes on the Weekend,” “Bite Club” and “Daily 7." Seven Days hosts an annual Vermont Restaurant Week each spring, and helps organize the Vermont Tech Jam job fair and tech expo each fall. The company was founded in 1995 by Pamela Polston and Paula Routly. 

Kids VT publishes a free monthly magazine and an annual Resource Guide, both of which reach parents via newsstands, schools and doctors’ offices. It also hosts an annual Camp and School Fair each February. Da Capo Publishing, dba Seven Days, is updating the design with the February issue. It will carry new, local, kid-friendly content — including feature stories of interest to parents and caregivers. Find it online at kidsvt.com <http://kidsvt.com> .