Glad you’ve joined us for the first in a series of travel blogs from the team with Mansfield Rising 2024. For the next several days, we’re going to take you on a trip to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas with us as best we can. Our goal is to highlight the ideas, people, and […]
Jay Allred
Jay Allred is the CEO of Source Media Properties, which includes three local news sites, a full service digital marketing agency, and an artificial intelligence startup. The Source Brand Solutions marketing team creates compelling messaging for clients all over the United States.
The Source newsrooms have become known for their tightly focused local coverage, entrepreneurial culture, and national leadership in audience engagement and the practice of solutions journalism. Source reporters serve nearly a half million users a month across four counties in North Central Ohio.
He was a 2022 Sulzberger Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School, where his project focused the development of easy-to-use SAAS tools for local newsrooms around the globe.
Jay serves as a board member of LION Publishers and is deeply involved in the civic life of his adopted hometown of Mansfield, Ohio. He is married to a fantastic woman, has 2 grown daughters, and adopted a couple of mutt dogs.
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Halfway home: Save big on a Richland Source membership thru Dec. 31
There is no way forward for professional, high quality, independent local news in our region without significant and ongoing reader support.
Our founder and staff have been all-in for 10 years now. Together with our readers, we’ve built a future for trusted independent journalism in North Central Ohio.
If you haven’t already, please join us in the fight.
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Today’s the day to invest in a Richland Source membership & save big
There is no way forward for professional, high quality, independent local news in our region without significant and ongoing reader support.
Our founder and staff have been all-in for 10 years now. Together with our readers, we’ve built a future for trusted independent journalism in North Central Ohio.
If you haven’t already, please join us in the fight.
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Richland Source to expand to full-time coverage of Shelby and the North County
SHELBY — Richland Source is headed north. We’re growing our team and hiring a full-time staff reporter who will concentrate on Shelby and northern Richland County. The Source is growing while other newsrooms shrink because leaders at six area companies stepped up in a big way. These organizations chose to invest in the independent local […]
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2023 Newsroom Partners & members raise the bar for investment in local journalism
Today is a grateful and happy day in our newsroom. Why? We can finally announce that an all-time high number of individuals and organizations have come forward to become members and Newsroom Partners in 2023. Today is the day we get to thank them publicly for their support. We are delighted to announce that our […]
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Publishers’ Perspective: Join the race to a community-driven future for local news
We start today with gratitude. As I write this, the Source Media family of news websites count 948 Ohioans as active, paying members. Our members come from all over the region and many different backgrounds. They have unique belief systems and range widely in their politics. They have one thing in common, though, and that […]
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Support of Ohio’s independent local journalism reaches new heights in 2020
Independent local journalism is important to people in north central Ohio, very important. We know this because nearly a thousand individuals, and now dozens of businesses and organizations, have opened their wallets to support it. We’re grateful to announce that our individual members and corporate Newsroom Partners have invested over $200,000 in the work of […]
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Tyger pride on display during bomb threat
I wasn’t planning to be at the Mansfield Senior homecoming last night. We were short a photographer and our editor, Larry Phillips, called me in to cover it for the normal photo gallery stuff. Smiley couples, glittery dresses, guys with fresh haircuts and too much cologne. You remember, right? My assignment changed around 8:40 p.m., […]
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Bomb threat disrupts Mansfield Sr. Homecoming dance
MANSFIELD — A Saturday night bomb threat at Mansfield Senior temporarily disrupted the 2019 Homecoming Dance. Some students never made it inside as school officials led those arriving early from the building to the school parking lot. The building began evacuation at approximately 8:40 p.m., but at 9:05 p.m. officials gave the all clear signal […]