Village Media, which began as a digital-first community news site, has evolved into a network of profitable local operations, thanks to the realization by Jeff Elgie, its founder and CEO,
that this is where the audience had gone, Editor & Publisher reports. Richard Gingras, a former Google executive who is now Village Media’s board chair, heard Elgie testify before a
Canadian parliamentary committee. “He said that he was in five markets and he was profitable,” Gingras said. “My eyes lit up.”
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