“The merger allows The Voice to add more regional coverage from nearby areas while also gaining back-office support from BCNF and additional staffing from the 24/7 news operation of the affiliated Bay City News wire, which has been serving many dozens of TV, radio, print and digital outlets since 1979. In particular, The Voice will have capacity for deeper coverage of environmental issues relevant to its readers, plus more resources for bringing news, photography, data journalism and round-the-clock editors to the mix.” (Dan Kennedy
notes that Voice publisher and co-founder Kate Maxwell and former editor Adrian Fernandez Baumann “were planning to convert the project they had founded in 2016 to a cooperative form of ownership” but “COVID-19 wreaked havoc with their plans.”)
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