MANSFIELD — Small Business Saturday is Nov. 26. If you run a small business that counts on the holiday shopping season, you need to get yourself registered by Nov. 4. The opportunity is tremendous, and tremendously affordable. It’s ridiculously easy. Just fill out this form and send it to the Richland Area Chamber or register online. […]
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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Richland Source – Our Story
General Information Richland Source was founded by Carl Fernyak in January 2013 on the belief that there was an audience in North Central Ohio hungry for a different local news product — one that was modern, forward-thinking, community-focused and truly represented what it was like to live and work in the area. We launched in […]
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Raemelton equestrian team places well at Chagrin Valley horse show
CHAGRIN FALLS — Nine riders, two coaches, and six horses from Mansfield’s Raemelton Therapeutic Equestrian Center traveled to Cleveland Monday to compete in the Chagrin Valley Hunter Jumper Classic. The drive – as it turns out – was well worth the effort. Riders from Raemelton took home multiple blue ribbons, plus a host of other […]
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Celebrate ‘Lovin’ It LOCAL’ month with Richland Source, McDonald’s, and Heart of Ohio
MANSFIELD, Ohio – For the second year in a row, Richland Source, your local McDonald’s, and Heart of Ohio magazine have partnered to make June “Lovin’ It LOCAL” month in Richland, Ashland, and Crawford Counties. We are celebrating how the word “local” can apply to a huge brand like McDonald’s, right alongside slightly smaller brands […]
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Why our news is free, and how we’ll keep it that way
MANSFIELD — Let me be clear. This message is not a prelude to a paywall that locks you out of the news until you pay. That business model is dead or dying, in our opinion. If you are reading this, you know delivering the best local news coverage at no cost to our readers is […]
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Richland Source, title sponsor of Brickyard stage, launches RichlandLIVE initiative
MANSFIELD — Richland Source is biased. We’re fans of the people, businesses, and culture in Mansfield and Richland County. As we have grown, our point of view has taken different forms, but we have always tried to stay true to that core value. The question on the community service side of things has always been […]
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Group abandons backyard chickens for frontyard ostriches
Proponents of backyard chickens in Mansfield announced a change in their legislative strategy today by abandoning both backyards and chickens. Their new urban agriculture theory? Free range front-yard ostriches. In a press release delivered – oddly enough – via Carrier Pigeon and dated April 1, Citizens for Mansfield Backyard Chickens (CMBC) explained their unexpected pivot […]
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Mansfield’s resident Peregrine Falcon needs a name
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or dwelling on a cliff (more on that later), you have probably heard of the peregrine falcon that has taken up residence at the Richland Bank building on the corner of Park Avenue and Main Street. And now it needs a name. Help Richland Source and Richland Bank […]
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Richland Area Chamber reports growth, unveils new brand
SHELBY, Ohio – Shelby’s Kehoe Center hosted the 117th Annual Richland Area Chamber of Commerce Meeting & Dinner Thursday night, and used that meeting to unveil a new brand for the organization, review the year, and award some of its members. The crisp, modern logo and brand was the result of an 18-month collaboration between […]
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Richland Source prepares for move into downtown offices
June 18, 2013 was easily the most significant day in the short history of Richland Source. After six months of planning and incubation at MT Business Technologies, that warm summer morning was the day Richland Source began publishing a new brand of community news. Energized by an optimistic editorial mandate to report the news with […]