YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Six days after The Vindicator made its 150th anniversary front-page news, the announcement came Friday that the newspaper will be closing. The final edition will be printed on Saturday, August 31. The website will also be shut down.
Readers could see it coming. The paper was noticeably smaller and, most importantly, there were fewer and fewer ads.
In the end, there was no choice but to close it all.
Vindicator General Manager Mark Brown sat in a conference room Friday evening, surrounded by some of the newspaper’s most famous front pages, and made the announcement that would end his family’s 150-year-old business.
“We were left at the point where there was no choice. The only alternative left was closing,” he said.
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Outside of The Vindicator’s downtown Youngstown operation, employees could be seen leaving, having learned the news in a series of staff meetings.
A total of 144 employees and 250 carriers will be losing their jobs.
The reason for closing? The newspaper was hemorrhaging money.
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