''The Vermont Cynic'' is the award-winning, editorially-independent student newspaper of the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the United ...

(UVM). ''The Cynic'' has been published since 1883 (as ''The University Cynic''). Up until 1985, ''The Cynic'' was published using

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. ''The Cynic'' has been published online since 2001. In November 2020 it paused publication of print issues, citing low readership due to

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, and resumed traditional print publication beginning in December 2021. It distributes print copies every week to various locations on campus. ''The Vermont Cynic'' won the Associated Collegiate Press'

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award in October 2011, widely considered the Pulitzer Prize of student journalism. In October 2012, ''The Vermont Cynic'' won the Associated Collegiate Press' Online Pacemaker award. The Cynic won Diversity Story of the Year in 2016 from the ACP for its reporting on the history of "Kake Walk," a

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tradition at UVM's Winter Carnival that continued until 1969. The paper was also a finalist for another Pacemaker award in 2017. In 2018, the Cynic took second place in the environmental portrait category for Photo of the Year.

Editorial board

For Spring 2022: * Editor-in-Chief: Ella Ruehsen * Managing Editor: Eric Scharf * Layout/Social Media: Ellie Scott * Operations Manager: Allison McDonald * Copy Chief: Catie Segaloff * Culture: Paige Fisher * Features: Elizabeth Roote * Illustrations: Izzy Pipa * Opinion: Grace Visco * News: Halsey McLaen * Sports: Matthew Rosenberg * Podcasts: Nicole Hardy * Photo: Sophia Balunek

Notable alumni

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, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at ''

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References

External links

''The Vermont Cynic''
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