Frances Mize

Valley News

Reporter Profile

Frances Mize covers the climate and environment for Valley News, a paper and news site serving the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire, based in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Mize was born and raised in Atlanta, and she is a recent graduate of Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in anthropology. She has written about clean water and sustainable energy issues for The Working Waterfront, which is published by the Island Institute in Rockland, Maine. Mize was a general assignment reporting intern and freelancer for Valley News, and says that she is thrilled to continue growing as a reporter in the community that first taught her how to report.

Beat: Environment and climate change in the Upper Valley

This reporter uses the environment and climate as lenses to report on all facets of Upper Valley life, from agriculture (e.g. changing growing seasons) to the economy (ski resorts), health, education and more.