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The Incredible Shrinking News Hole

The already thinning ranks of Vermont journalism will get a little thinner this week, thanks to newsroom cuts at The Burlington Free Press, the state's largest daily newspaper.

In all, six staffers at the Gannett-owned broadsheet will get the axe. Among the first to go was columnist Ed Shamy, who joined the Freeps as a metro editor in 1999.

The remaining five employees will be let go from several departments, Publisher Brad Robertson told "Fair Game." He declined to be more specific because not all employees had been notified. Robertson first alerted the paper's 213 workers of the impending layoffs Friday in an email.

In a prepared statement, Executive Editor Mike Townsend said, "Although ...

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