About me
Jay Allred is the CEO of Source Media Properties, which includes three local news sites, a full service digital marketing studio, and an AI startup which serves local newsrooms.
The Source newsrooms have become known for their tightly focused local coverage, entrepreneurial culture, and national leadership in audience engagement and the practice of solutions journalism. Source reporters serve nearly a half million users a month across three counties in North Central Ohio.
Jay was a 2022 Sulzberger Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School, and is the former Board Chair of LION Publishers. He is deeply involved in the civic life of his adopted hometown of Mansfield, Ohio.
