Mandy Jenkins

General Manager, The Compass Experiment at McClatchy

Mandy Jenkins is General Manager of The Compass Experiment, a three-year partnership between McClatchy and the Google News Initiative to promote local news sustainability. She is Board President of the Online News Association and a 2018-2019 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.

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Texas Tribune is such a success story it’s hard to even think of anything that’s even remotely like it. I think there’s a lot of people that are working toward that right now.

I would know nothing about the local news if I wasn’t on Nextdoor. I read Nextdoor religiously in my neighborhood. You get to deal with some real crazies in there but you do learn a lot. I think that’s local. That’s not even a publication. That’s just people coming together and sharing.

I think about really what brings a community together. It doesn’t have to be where you live. I guess it’s kind of like where your heart is, to some extent.