Sarah Leach, the Gannett community group editor fired last May for talking with me about an internal company issue, has taken the route of many other editors who lost their jobs at legacy newspaper organizations. In mid-December, with the backing of local sponsors, she launched her own site, the Ottawa News Network.
Ottawa is Leach’s home county, with a population of 300,000. It includes Holland, Michigan, population: 35,000. She covered a county commission scandal there for over a year while still at Gannett and has continued tracking the story in a Substack since she left. Leach’s account of new developments, mainly election contests and lawsuits, is the core of the new nonprofit site’s content.
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