In late September, McClatchy and Google will launch their
Mahoning Matters site, which covers Ohio ’s Mahoning Valley ,
including Youngstown and Warren . The area’s Vindicator newspaper
closed in August.
Mahoning
Matters is part of The Compass Experiment, a local news laboratory
founded by McClatchy and Google’s Local Experiments Project.
“Our name
reflects both what we'll cover and what we believe: The Mahoning Valley
matters. Youngstown
matters. Local news matters,” said an announcement on the site’s homepage.
The Compass
Experiment will use Village Media’s digital publishing platform in the Youngstown effort,
its first new digital news site.
Mark
Sweetwood, who was managing editor of The Vindicator for over ten years, has
been named editor of Mahoning Matters. Also onboard are two reporters from the
Vindicator: Justin Dennis and Jess Hardin.
Todd
Franko, the former editor of The Vindicator, was named director of local
sustainability and development for Report For America, The Business Journal,
based in Youngstown , reports. Report For America is “a national
service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on
under-covered issues and communities,” according to its website.
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