This is neat. Just got an email from Ernesto Burden at the RH/TA about this new project, which is posted on the Rutland Herald and Times Argus websites. Each paper is creating a readers’ blog that will include commentary from readers and from that paper’s editors. They’re looking for contributors “from a variety of social and political perspectives.”

They’re appealing to readers in ads on their websites:

Bloggersmust be good writers, and must be committed to civil discourse, evenwhen writing on controversial issues. This is not a paying gig and sobloggers must also be willing to post for the glory and thesatisfaction.

Interested? Contact ernesto.burden@rutlandherald.com 

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...