About Us
Chronicle editor Dave Askins and Mary Morgan, publisher.
We launched The Ann Arbor Chronicle to fill a void – to create a daily news site that reflects and embraces the energy, oddities, and character of our community. Every day we encounter eccentric, enterprising, or regular people doing the remarkable or even the routine. Ultra-local events within easy arm’s reach – whether it’s a pickup softball game, a client meeting in a coffee shop, a spontaneous political caucus, a school play – that’s the lens through which The Chronicle sees topics like entertainment, economic development, government, education. Whatever the stuff is that fills your day, your neighbors’ day, your colleagues’ day – this is the stuff we chronicle. Because when people share these experiences, it becomes the stuff that underpins a community understanding of broader issues.
The Chronicle is an online-only venture, but it’s not a blog. It’s personal – we hope not in a navel-gazing way, but in that we’re invested in the place where we live, and with the people who’ve lived here all along, who pass through here briefly, or those who choose to stay. Those are the readers we’re writing for.
The word of the year for 2007 was locavore, someone who eats food grown in their region, probably by people who live somewhere close by. We’d like to extend this notion to someone who craves news and information grown locally in some sort of metaphorical compost of community interaction. We want these locavores to crave The Chronicle.
Want to know more, or have your own thoughts about what The Chronicle should cover? Let us know.
Sign up for our weekly Chronicle email: Every Saturday, we send out links to news stories and features that have been published in The Chronicle during the previous week. To sign up, email Mary Morgan at mary.morgan@annarborchronicle.com.
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In The News
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- PBS Newshour’s Patchwork Nation series – Dec. 8, 2009: “Media Landscape Shifts Online in a Wired Town“
- Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab – Sept. 11, 2009: “WordPress, Twitter, the Elks Club: 10 new routines at a news startup”
- London Sunday Times – Aug. 23, 2009: “That’s All, Folks! See You Online”
- PoynterOnline – Aug. 17, 2009: “Ann Arbor Entrepreneur Went Online-Only Before Her Former Paper Did”
- Time – Aug. 17, 2009: “Ann Arbor Kills Its Newspaper – To Save It”
- PoynterOnline – July 14, 2009: “Newhouse’s AnnArbor.com Enters a Crowded Field Next Week”
- Current – April 2009: “Businesses We Can Be Passionate About”
- Online Journalism Review – Feb. 26, 2009: “Recession? Local News Sites Are Hanging Tough”
Also, check out The Chronicle’s page on the Lucy Ann Lance Show website, with archived audio files of past interviews with Chronicle publisher Mary Morgan. Or catch the interviews each Saturday morning on WLBY-1290 AM.
The Ann Arbor Chronicle is a member of the Michigan Press Association.
