Jane Lindholm is the host for the

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(VPR) newsmagazine '' Vermont Edition'', producer and host of ''But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids'', and a photojournalist. She lives in

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. Lindholm attended the Brooks School and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

where she got a BA in

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. While at college she started writing and editing for

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. After college, she worked at

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in Washington DC before moving to Los Angeles where she worked as the director/producer for

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. She moved to Vermont in 2007 where she expanded ''Vermont Edition'' from a weekly to a daily program. During the aftermath of

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''Vermont Edition'' expanded their live coverage to three to four hours per day to provide information to people stranded by the storm.

Recognition

Lindholm won a Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI) Best Use Of Sound award in 2011 for her story on hand-milking cows. ''Vermont Edition'' won a PRNDI award in 2012 for Lindholm's story on tiny houses. In 2015, Lindholm was voted best Local Radio Host, and her show, ''Vermont Edition'' was voted Best Talk Radio Show, in Burlington newspaper Seven Days' annual Daysies awards.

References

External links

The Common Wanderer
- Lindholm's blog
Lindholm's reporting on ''Marketplace''

Lindholm's reporting on Vermont Edition
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