Hello there!

Meet the Times staff.

Today is a big day for The Lawrence Times, as we’re thrilled to announce our core reporters. 

Many of you probably knew Mackenzie Clark was on board, but today we’re excited to announce that Conner Mitchell is joining the Times!

⬇️ Read more about us below. ⬇️

Our goals + What's next

Mackenzie and Conner want The Lawrence Times to provide news coverage of the issues that matter to this community, to give a voice to the voiceless, to hold those in power accountable and to be held accountable ourselves. 

Simply, we aim to reflect this community’s values, including equity, transparency and true justice. 

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This brings us to our other exciting announcement: One week from today — Monday, March 8 — will be the official launch date for The Lawrence Times!

The outpouring of support the Lawrence community has shown since we announced the Times’ formation has been overwhelming, and we’re more than ready to start delivering the content you’ve told us you need and desire from your local news outlet. 

We’ll have more information later this week on how you can support the Times and set it up for long-term success, but for now, visit our website for different ways you can continue to help Mackenzie and Conner get the Times up and running. 

A little bit more about us:

Meet Mackenzie: Mackenzie previously covered public safety for the Lawrence Journal-World, where she started her professional career and worked for about 5 1/2 years. Before that, she was editor-in-chief at The Campus Ledger, the student newspaper of Johnson County Community College, and at the University Daily Kansan, the student newspaper of the University of Kansas.

She started at the Lawrence paper in July 2015 as an intern at the copy desk, then started doing some health reporting on top of that. In January 2019, she moved to full-time reporting on the health, K-12 education and county government beats, and in July 2019, she took over the public safety beat, covering crime, courts and corruption. Most recently, she's been emailing you.

Find her on Twitter (@mclarknews), Facebook, Instagram (@mclarknews) and LinkedIn. Check out some of her previous work here. 

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Meet Conner: Conner has covered the Douglas County community in various stints over the past six years, most recently as the University of Kansas reporter for the LJWorld, where he also worked as an intern in college. Conner also covered Kansas' flagship university for four years as a reporter and editor at the University Daily Kansan. 

He has also worked professionally as a community reporter in Charleston, South Carolina, in addition to internships around the country at the Student Press Law Center, Palm Beach Post, and the Kansas City Star.

Find him on Twitter (@ConnerMitchell0), LinkedIn, Instagram (@ConnerMitchell0) and Facebook.

We want to thank this community again for the overwhelmingly generous support we’ve received since taking this leap, and we ask that you please stick with us as we build a new model of local news.

See you soon!