“Yesterday, Press Forward’s PR rep got in touch with us to respond to
Sunday’s post, which we had held for a week awaiting a comment from Press Forward. In her response, Marika Lynch of MLC Social Impact Communications acknowledged that Press Forward changed the open-call grant deadline from Pacific to Eastern time, a move that left some publishers in the lurch. Lynch attributed the problem to ‘a technical issue on the application platform.'” (See also Local News Blues’ post from Saturday: “
PSA: The Medill map people are taking corrections.”)
—SC
