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Founded to help make local news more sustainable in small- to mid-sized communities, The Compass Experiment is now being dismantled by one of the largest newspaper chains in the country under hedge ...

Bring on the experimentation. Especially in Youngstown. That's the spirit of things now in the hard-hit world of local news, where the pending closure of the (Youngstown) Vindicator is leading to some ...

“One of the hardest lessons we have learned so far is how difficult it is to efficiently operate local news sites without the benefits of a network .. But we found it challenging to replicate their ...

Following the news that Youngstown, Ohio's 150-old-paper The Vindicator would cease publication, Google News Initiative’s The Compass Experiment and McClatchy announced they would launch a ...