Block Club Chicago — a nonprofit newsroom that has been accumulating reporters, readers and accolades — hit one milestone last month and reaches another one Tuesday.Last month, Block Club Chicago officially outlasted its predecessor, DNAinfo, a Chicago online news startup that operated for four years and 11 months before billionaire owner Joe Ricketts abruptly shuttered it (and the Gothamist network of sites) in November 2017. Newly lacking funding and employment, DNAinfo editors Shamus Toomey, Jen Sabella and Stephanie Lulay chose to continue their mission and started a new neighborhood news site from scratch, Block Club Chicago, on June 13, 2018, exactly five years ago
Origen: Why one local newsroom startup in Chicago succeeded where others failed – Poynter
