The Burlington Free Press print product is a "tall tab" newspaper that contains specialized sections that cover business, arts & entertainment, sports, food and local history.

The Burlington Free Press website carries both local and national stories, videos and live streams and offers a digital-only subscription as an alternative or supplement to print delivery.

It was created by lawyers Seneca Austin and Luman Foote in response to the 1828 presidential election cycle.

Editor DeWitt Clinton Clarke (1846-1853) made the following statement regarding the telegraph:"We trust it did not escape the notice of our readers that our Saturday evening's paper contained news from New York of that very afternoon – half past two o'clock!

15 columns were dedicated to advertisements and "uncalled for letters", a list of people who had not collected their mail from the postmaster.

Early coverage included letters from the battlefields of the Civil War, women's suffrage and prohibition.

[8] In 1872, The Daily Sentinel, the Burlington Free Press' major competitor in the morning newspaper market closed its doors.

[7] Photo-engraving was added to the Burlington Free Press' capabilities in 1929 and the paper was able to produce photo news coverage.

[7] In the 1960s and 1970s, The Burlington Free Press remained a Republican newspaper in a state that was slowly moving across the political spectrum toward Democratic.

[12] In June 2012, the Burlington Free Press switched from broadsheet to all-color tall tabloid format.

[16] The Burlington Free Press has won numerous awards and accolades honoring both its reporters and its online presence.

[18] The Burlington Free Press was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for Editorial Writing by Aki Soga and Michael Townsend.

[19] The Free Press has won many Edward R. Murrow Awards, a distinction that has historically been reserved for television and radio publications.

[26] [27] The Burlington Free Press won the "Distinguished Service to the First Amendment" award from the Scripps Howard Foundation in 2010 for its editorial work focusing on open government during the 2010 elections.

The 'Main' or 'A' section of the Burlington Free Press contains news coverage including politics, society, weather, crime, education and sports.

It is produced at the national USA TODAY office and is inserted into the Burlington Free Press at the time of printing.

The Burlington Free Press publishes its business and technology news in a weekly Innovate section on Thursdays.

The Free Press publishes Premium Editions of the paper that focus on certain national or local topics.

It features articles written by experts, photography and advertisements for winter equipment, resorts, restaurants and beer.

[35] Hometown Weekly is a community news publication that is mailed out to households that do not subscribe to the Burlington Free Press within Chittenden County.

[39] The hosts, Jeff Baker and Jason Strempek both work for Farrell Distributing as does co-producer Ryan Chaffin.

The podcast is co-produced, edited and recorded by Sophia Trigg, News and Social Media assistant at the Burlington Free Press.

[41][42] Madeline Kunin, former governor of Vermont, joined the Burlington Free Press in 1957 after graduating at Columbia University's journalism school.

Videographer Ryan Mercer created an award-winning video reflection on the Sanders campaign in November 2016.