The Future of Content: A discussion on how Youngstown is sustaining local news

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With last year's closing of The Vindicator, the city of Youngstown, Ohio, no longer had a daily newspaper.  A new digital news outlet called Mahoning Matters was launched about two months later, as part of The Compass Experiment — a partnership between Google and McClatchy to explore sustainable business models for local news.

Next Thursday afternoon during PIVOT 2020, attendees will have the opportunity to view a documentary on what's happened since The Vindicator closed, and hear from three panelists who will talk about lessons learned that will benefit the industry as a whole.

Our panelists are:

  • Tim Franklin, senior associate dean at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University.
  • Craig Duff, a professor at Medill and also the graduate journalism Video and Broadcast Specialization leader.
  • Mandy Jenkins, general manager of The Compass Experiment.

The information you’ll get from PIVOT 2020 will be well worth your investment.  We’ve made the sessions affordable for any sized newspaper and we’re offering deep discounts to make it attractive for you to send multiple members of your organization.  Find out more information and register here, today.

If you have already registered for PIVOT, consider registering additional members of your team at our discounted team rates.  To add additional team members, contact Paulette Sheffield of America’s Newspapers: psheffield@newspapers.org.

Register now for PIVOT 2020

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