The Vindicator, Youngstown’s newspaper since 1869, closes its do

Vindicator reporters Samantha Phillips, 25, of Vienna, Ohio, and Graig Graziosi, 33, of Austintown, Ohio, sit outside after work at West Side Bowl for Graziosi’s birthday celebration on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in Youngstown, Ohio’s West Side. Mr. Graziosi is looking for a job in the D.C, metro area after Ms. Phillips secured another writing job in that region for after The Vindicator closes. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette)