Hilary Niles
Freelance Investigative ReporterHilary is an independent investigative reporter, data journalism consultant and researcher based in Montpelier. She specializes in telling stories of how public policy shapes people's daily lives.
Hilary's radio work has been featured on WBUR's Here and Now and the Public Radio Exchange's Station Showcase. She earned a Society of Professional Journalists鈥� Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in 2013 for her research with Investigative Reporting Workshop founder Charles Lewis, of American University.
Before moving to Vermont in 2013, Hilary studied in the graduate program at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she worked at Investigative Reporters and Editors. She previously graduated from the University of New Hampshire and Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and served as founding program director at Portsmouth Community Radio in New Hampshire.
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A big question has lingered in the months since federal and state authorities charged Jay Peak developers with fraud: What did Gov. Peter Shumlin and鈥� -
Many foreign investors in Jay Peak鈥檚 EB-5 developments are scrambling in the wake of charges that the resort orchestrated a massive securities fraud with鈥� -
Legislation that would have made it easier for the state to decertify police offers for crimes and misconduct died in the Vermont Senate's Government鈥�
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You may have heard about the nearly $1 million lawsuit the city of Rutland settled in December with a former police officer.The officer had alleged his鈥� -
Vermont Interactive Technologies ceased operations last month at all 17 of its sites that had been used for job training, distance learning, bankruptcy鈥�
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Vermont's decades-old statewide videoconferencing system is days away from being dismantled. But a central Vermont man who has fought the dissolution of鈥� -
Vermont's state government has a long, backlogged list of information technology projects 鈥� potentially totaling more than $1 billion in the next five鈥� -
Vermont鈥檚 state government is contemplating at least $1 billion of information technology projects in the coming years. The wish list is long, and some鈥� -
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There's an old adage that, "it takes money to make money." A group of policymakers and community stakeholders is finding out it sometimes costs money to鈥�
