Chris Seper and Mary Vanac look pretty happy for a couple of people who just left top jobs at Ohio's largest newspaper to start their own business. And why not? They've just created MedCity News, an online news service that sells news stories, podcasts, videos and web updates about medical innovation, business transaction, and medical technology transfer to publishers, news sources and broadcasters. Seper was the online medical editor for the Plain Dealer, worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and has written for The Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor while a journalist in Cambodia. Vanac has covered the business of medicine for the PD for 3 years, has worked at the Akron Beacon Journal, and has won numerous journalism awards. They recently won $30K in funding from the Civic Innovation Lab, and are mentored by Earl Pike of the AIDS Task Force and Thomas Mulready of Cool Cleveland, and they've assembled a stellar board of advisors to help them kickstart their new venture. Watch the video interview with Mulready at PositivelyCleveland's new visitors center on Public Square and hear how two seasoned journalists are making the leap into a new business model in the post-newspaper age.

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