Signal Ohio names editor for nonprofit newsroom in Akron, set to launch later this year with some $6 million in funding
Susan Zake, an esteemed journalism professor at Kent State University for the past 17 years, will spearhead Signal Ohio's second newsroom., the parent nonprofit of Signal Cleveland, the civic-focused digital news startup, announced Wednesday the leader for its second newsroom, which will launch later this year to cover Akron.
Along with editorial guidance from Signal Ohio's CEO Rita McNeil Danish and direction from Lila Mills, Signal Cleveland's editor-in-chief, Zake's aiming toJust as Signal's freshman publication arose during a media earthquake due to COVID-19 and a general landscape of shrinking newsrooms, Zake envisions Signal Akron filling similar journalistic gaps left by the heavy layoffs at the Beacon Journal in 2019, along with the shuttering of the alt-weeklyThe Devil's Strip in October...
Before she helped lead the Kent State newsroom, as a mentor to countless future Northeast Ohio journalists, Zake spent two decades at the Beacon Journal, where she wore just about every editorial hat imaginable—from the photo department to graphics to working as head of the Beacon's metro beat.
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