Yukon Star closes after 4 months due to lack of capital [Video]

After just four months in business, the Yukon Star is closing up shop.

The locally-owned and operated news outlet published online, in print, and even started a podcast. It began in May with a flurry of excitement that resulted in a successful crowdfunding campaign and four local investors pitching in.

The outlet opened in the wake of the Whitehorse Star’s closing and hired several of its reporters and its editor, with the goal of carrying on its legacy of local journalism. 

The now-former Yukon Star publisher, Max Fraser, said the new company had been pleased by its sales and readership progress but that it lacked enough operating capital to be able to continue paying staff until it became profitable.

The Yukon Star published its final issue, we sit down with publisher Max Fraser.

“If there was a mistake made, it was not seeing that there would need to be a fair chunk of working …