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VTDigger reporter/editor Hewitt set to depart

Elizabeth Hewitt

Elizabeth Hewitt, reporter and editor covering criminal justice, corrections, human services and the state budget in the Legislature and beyond at VTDigger, is leaving the company for the Netherlands.

Previously, Hewitt was a contributing editor at The Political Handbook of the World, CQ Press. She has also served as a freelance arts correspondent at Barre-Montpelier Times Argus.

In addition, she has also interned at The New Yorker, Slate Magazine, Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She also held the post of deputy editor at The Saint newspaper where she assigned and edited content for the fortnightly print edition and for web among other tasks.

Currently, she is working as a freelance journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the online media industry. She is also skilled in investigative journalism, copy editing, fact-checking, social media and WordPress.

Hewitt has a master’s degree in magazine journalism from New York University.

Mariam Ahmed

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