Mandy Jenkins

  • General Manager
  • The Compass Experiment

Mandy Jenkins is General Manager of The Compass Experiment, a partnership between Google and McClatchy to explore sustainable business models for local news. Compass has launched two digital-only local news operations: Mahoning Matters, in Youngstown, Ohio in October of 2019 and The Longmont Leader in Longmont, Colorado in May 2020. Prior to her work with Compass, Mandy was a 2019 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. She has served in leadership roles at Storyful and Digital First Media’s Project Thunderdome and has driven innovative digital journalism projects within The Huffington Post Politics, TBD.com, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Mandy is on the Board of Directors for the Online News Association and News Leaders Association.

Website: https://medium.com/the-compass-experiment