Betty Brown Jagnow, trailblazing Vindicator publisher, president of WFMJ TV, dies at 92

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Betty Brown Jagnow blazed a trail as one of the few women in America to serve as publisher of a major family-owned daily newspaper while also president of a top-100 market television station, 21 WFMJ.

Betty J.H. Brown Jagnow, of Canfield, Ohio, former publisher of The Vindicator and president of The Vindicator Printing Company in Youngstown for nearly four decades, died at home late Friday, Feb. 4, at the age of 92. She successfully fought the coronavirus and pneumonia in both lungs this past November, but the battle weakened her so much, that when combined with her congestive heart failure, she had remained bedridden since Nov. 10.

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