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McClatchy is making changes to its Compass Experiment. The effort is a local news laboratory founded by McClatchy and Google News Initiative’s Local Experiments Project.
LONGMONT — The McClatchy Co., a publisher of newspapers around the nation, has shifted gears on its Compass Experiment and will spin off its Longmont Leader online publication to Canadian company Village Media Inc., effective March 1. Mandy Jenkins, the general manager of the Compass Experiment — which operated two and planned a third community news startup — said the company had determined that its experiment would not produce profitable, independent news operations as designed. As a result, it moved its Youngstown, Ohio, operation under the McClatchy news division with a Kansas City S...
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