As It Covers the Coronavirus, This Small Newsroom is Reminding Readers ‘This is a Local Business’

This was supposed to be a story chronicling the infancy of a local news site born from the death of the local newspaper. In Youngstown, Ohio, Mahoning Matters launched shortly after The Vindicator stopped printing and closed in all but name and domain.

In early March, I spoke with the publisher Mandy Jenkins about what the four-person team, who all came from The Vindicator, was learning about making a local site work.

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