Jarah makes the front page

Susan Kitchens points out that Jarah Euston, founder-editor of Fresno Famous (with whom I did a video interview at BlogHer, see above), made the front page of Sunday’s LA Times for this story: Fresno’s Brain Drain Has Left the Town Smarting. Young people with good educations are leaving the struggling southern San Joaquin Valley in a search for better prospects elsewhere.

After giving up a life as a well-paid, overworked bond analyst in New York City, Euston moved back to Fresno to work at a nonprofit agency doing economic development in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. But it was hard to find out what — if anything — was going on in Fresno at any given time, she mourned, with no alternative weekly and few entertainment listings.

So she launched the “Fresno Famous” website, which reports “live from the middle of nowhere” and is “dedicated to making Fresno less boring with every issue.” The site is now 18 months old and is Euston’s full-time job. She plans to start an expanded version later this month.

Jarah’s wonderful, and will be helping Ourmedia launch a Digital Media Learning Center earlyn ext year.

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