Signal Cleveland, with $7.5 million in startup funding and carefully cultivated community engagement, launched today Tuesday with big goals.If all goes well, it will expand throughout Ohio within a few years and help map a way for other nonprofits to get news to the underserved.
For now, the program is more modest.Editor-in-chief Lila Mills told me she had been convinced to begin with a "minimum viable product," - a web site and a newsletter with 15 professionals on staff and three freelancers, supplemented by a corps of citizen journalists.
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Plus an affiliation with The Marshall Project's Cleveland local news site, covering criminal justice under the direction of veteran editor and publisher Jim Crutchfield already up and running.
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