My wife and I purchased The Chronicle in 2019. Our mission, unchanged to this day, was to build a credible hyper-local news-and-information business that embodied the best practices of ethical journalism and community esprit de corps.
And to attempt this in communities that had no other coverage – so-called news deserts, which were appearing across the country as corporate media and hedge funds emphasized profits over all else in the journalism industry.
The demise of…


