Oral history interview with Jane Lindholm

AudioFileCOVID-059_lindholmtranscript.pdf

Title

Oral history interview with Jane Lindholm

Description

Jane Lindholm discusses her experiences as part of the Vermont Public
team covering Governor Phil Scott's regular press conferences during the
COVID-19 pandemic. She also describes the children's programs that she
produced at the request of the Vermont Agency of Education in an effort
to keep kids engaged during remote learning. Programs she mentions
include shows on bats and beavers, racism, and a live press conference
with the governor where he took questions from students. Lindholm also
reflects on radio as a particularly accessible medium, the role of
journalists in the pandemic, and the challenges of covering medical topics
more broadly. She touches on both her decision in March 2021 to stop
hosting Vermont Edition and her family's experiences of the pandemic,
including her father-in-law's death from COVID in 2021.

Jane Lindholm of Monkton, Vermont, joined Vermont Public in 2007 as
host and editor of Vermont Edition, a daily news program that she
continued to lead until March 2021. She began hosting and producing the
program, "But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids," in 2016.

Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-251676-OMS-22.

Date

2023-05-05

Source

Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project

Identifier

AudioFileCOVID-059

Format

MP3
WAV

Type

Audio file

Rights

Permission to publish material from the Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project may be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Interviewer

Johnson, Mark

Interviewee

Lindholm, Jane

Duration

1 hr., 14 min., 33 sec.

Repository

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4215

Citation

“Oral history interview with Jane Lindholm,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed April 1, 2025, https://digitalvermont.org/vtcovid/AudioFileCOVID-059.