{"id":9965,"date":"2019-06-28T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2019-07-06T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T23:36:00","slug":"the-vindicator-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/28\/the-vindicator-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vindicator Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2019\/06\/the-vindicator-youngstowns-daily-newspaper-will-close-after-150-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Plain-Dealer (opens in a new tab)\">from The Plain-Dealer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Vindicator, Youngstown\u2019s daily newspaper, will close after 150 years<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>B<strong>y\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/connect.cleveland.com\/staff\/jgrzelew\/posts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Jordyn Grzelewski<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/resizer\/3CUjE4aCZFdCe1NUqwWKEbuold8=\/600x0\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-advancelocal.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/IRLDUFZ45ZGCPJCZSBEPH2LAYQ.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>American steelworker Charlie Grapentine reads about the Korean War in the Youngstown Vindicator in October 1950. The newspaper told employees Friday afternoon that it will close. (Doreen Spooner\/Keystone Features\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio \u2014 The Vindicator, which recently marked its 150th publication anniversary and is Youngstown\u2019s only daily newspaper, told employees Friday afternoon that it will close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bertram de Souza, The Vindicator\u2019s editorial page editor and a columnist, recalled that when he joined the staff 40 years ago this month, the paper staffed multiple bureaus across the Valley and reached some 100,000 readers per day. \u201cUnfortunately, the reality of our industry hit home \u2013 literally. It\u2019s painful, for somebody like me, who has dedicated my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2019\/06\/the-vindicator-youngstowns-daily-newspaper-will-close-after-150-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at The Plain-Dealer (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at The Plain-Dealer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Plain-Dealer The Vindicator, Youngstown\u2019s daily newspaper, will close after 150 years By\u00a0Jordyn Grzelewski YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio \u2014 The Vindicator, which recently marked its 150th publication anniversary and is Youngstown\u2019s only daily newspaper, told employees Friday afternoon that it will close. Bertram de Souza, The Vindicator\u2019s editorial page editor and a columnist, recalled that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}