LA Times: Volunteers set up Sopris Sun after Valley Journal folds
March 24th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick, Newspapers
Free weekly, the Sopris Sun, is being run by seven volunteers and one paid editor/reporter, Trina Ortega.
The paper was launched by concerned residents after local title, the Carbondale Valley Journal, folded after 34 years.
“Ortega, 40, has received a small stack of resumes from writers and photographers willing to work for free,” says the article.
Tags: carbondale valley journal, editor /reporter, LA Times, sopris sun, the Carbondale Valley Journal, Trina Ortega, us
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