tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76501888822815460262024-03-29T01:42:42.807-07:00Society of Professional Journalists Greater Cincinnati Pro ChapterGreater Cincinnati Pro Chapter<br>
Improving and protecting journalism in Greater Cincinnati since 1967.Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comBlogger595125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-53718164348824925472024-03-18T12:36:00.000-07:002024-03-20T12:37:14.913-07:00Join Us on April 12 and 13 - 2024 SPJ Region 4 and Region 5 Conference <p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatnC0GPCVJu8gdWfgPxlGyPwN9xgn9wxC3lDpqTElStIo8ImZP09XxYD7_qNCayXKZuRD_QfsfNxFsoS1BZz-6WMuot0xB2FuUO9Md_EoMWdBpYi7AW1KsWqRI6gz8tTshbVyqlVY0505FD7-niF0UiEB2aAIHckIj9hEHt-O4YA2Ai8m4xktR-U6/s2000/2024%20SPJ%20Regional%20Program.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatnC0GPCVJu8gdWfgPxlGyPwN9xgn9wxC3lDpqTElStIo8ImZP09XxYD7_qNCayXKZuRD_QfsfNxFsoS1BZz-6WMuot0xB2FuUO9Md_EoMWdBpYi7AW1KsWqRI6gz8tTshbVyqlVY0505FD7-niF0UiEB2aAIHckIj9hEHt-O4YA2Ai8m4xktR-U6/w494-h640/2024%20SPJ%20Regional%20Program.png" width="494" /></a></div><p></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-86040053258612955792024-02-29T18:43:00.000-08:002024-03-05T18:46:41.300-08:00Reminder - Call for Entries - Cincy SPJ Contest 2024 <p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqISjd7OBptmOwdL3w9OnnQP4WLDz5GbRO0yEdD5g8vDNuezx8NK_rRCifG82rI9mSnGDZxW0_AgZM1wbd_haVAdI4Ayy3X9_CHKW_nhK2SnDnVjBQpwK3sSbyCCKVM6b03hAAxa0OJILpDdMaRj37tp_IOAtLzDly__G6eZnUrflf2DuR_amW4tjO/s159/SPJ%20New%20Logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="159" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqISjd7OBptmOwdL3w9OnnQP4WLDz5GbRO0yEdD5g8vDNuezx8NK_rRCifG82rI9mSnGDZxW0_AgZM1wbd_haVAdI4Ayy3X9_CHKW_nhK2SnDnVjBQpwK3sSbyCCKVM6b03hAAxa0OJILpDdMaRj37tp_IOAtLzDly__G6eZnUrflf2DuR_amW4tjO/w212-h151/SPJ%20New%20Logo.jpg" width="212" /></a></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024</span></b></div><o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">GREATER CINCINNATI SPJ PRO CHAPTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM CONTEST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">CALL FOR ENTRIES</span></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: red; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-highlight: yellow;">DEADLINE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: red; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-highlight: yellow;">11:59 P.M. - MARCH 15, 2024</span></u></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Greater Cincinnati Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">is looking for the most outstanding work appearing in print, online and on-air between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, in Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati & Dayton markets), Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana.</span></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Excellence In Journalism Contest is a way for publishers, editors, reporters, producers, freelancers, college and university students, photographers and videographers to promote excellence in journalism by showcasing work that informs and enlightens the public with professionalism, truth, integrity and ethics.</span></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Entries must be submitted by a recognized news organization or individual based in Greater Cincinnati or Greater Dayton. National or regional news organizations may enter, but the contest will only accept submissions focusing on people and events from those two regions.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">For a list of categories and more details on how to enter, go to: <a href="https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2024/01/call-for-entries-now-open-greater.html">https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2024/01/call-for-entries-now-open-greater.html</a></span></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-82641058758713305222024-02-16T08:57:00.000-08:002024-03-29T01:42:10.844-07:00SPJ Region 4 and Region 5 Conference 2024 - April 12 and April 13 in Cincinnati/NKY<p><strong></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBk6YvDJJt_ln-bwVXZ9U35SoErUBGP2XEQ86JFbC0MPXl1kbXZ2VS4IwgV0NBlyHOGzwx63gdmuRoJp5_XUVMWWgrCO9_JDaGWj9Wa3kzmW1nT0aFW1Sa9k3c-f5HxhSTwlFGMqfoieJ2RP1cP_yB0EJgVVFPajaVcxQv4Kv6P5PoeckZWyw8o3E/s2142/Regional-Conferences-24_Logo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="2142" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBk6YvDJJt_ln-bwVXZ9U35SoErUBGP2XEQ86JFbC0MPXl1kbXZ2VS4IwgV0NBlyHOGzwx63gdmuRoJp5_XUVMWWgrCO9_JDaGWj9Wa3kzmW1nT0aFW1Sa9k3c-f5HxhSTwlFGMqfoieJ2RP1cP_yB0EJgVVFPajaVcxQv4Kv6P5PoeckZWyw8o3E/w355-h123/Regional-Conferences-24_Logo.png" width="355" /></a></strong></div><strong><br />Please join us for the 2024 SPJ Region 4 and 5 Conference</strong><p></p><p>Reconnect with colleagues and attend cutting-edge panel discussions that cover a variety of topics -- from the latest technology and tools for journalists and working in a newsroom today to sharpening your skills, and more.</p><p><strong>SPJ Region 4 and Region 5 Conference</strong></p><p><strong>Fri., April 12 and Sat., April 13, 2024</strong></p><p><strong>Northern Kentucky University (NKU) - Griffin Hall 500 Louie B. Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41099 with a Friday night opening reception at The Cincinnati Enquirer, 312 Plum Street, Cincinnati, OH 45201 (downtown Cincinnati.)</strong></p><p>Wonder where the future of journalism is headed? What are the latest tools that will help you capture stories? How will journalists thrive in the future? These are only a few of the topics we’ll cover during the Society of Professional Journalists Region 4 and 5 Conference on Fri., Apr. 12 and Sat., Apr. 13, 2024. The event will also recognize some of the best work from students at an afternoon MOE Awards celebration on Saturday.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">2024 SPJ Region 4 and Region
5 Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Greater
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky<br />
April 12-13, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Schedule:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Friday, April 12<br />
</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">5:30-7:30 p.m. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Opening reception,
Cincinnati Enquirer, 312 Plum St., Cincinnati, OH 45201</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Beryl Love, executive editor, Cincinnati Enquirer</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Saturday, April 13</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.<br />
Location: Griffin Hall at Northern Kentucky University, 500 Louie B Nunn
Dr, Highland Heights, Kentucky, 41099.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">8:30-9:15 a.m. – Breakfast
– sponsored by </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">E.W. Scripps School of Journalism</span> at Ohio
University<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">9:15-9:30 a.m. – Welcome and
opening remarks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Region 4 Director Ginny
McCabe and Region 5 Director Nicole DeCriscio <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">SPJ President Ashanti </span><span color="windowtext"><a href="https://www.ashantiblaize.com/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Blaize-Hopkins</span></a></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">, via video<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. –
Super Session</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">What’s Ahead for the
Future of the Industry:</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Clicks are king, revenue is soft,
layoffs and consolidation continue. What buoys and dashes the hopes of top news
managers in 2024?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Featured speakers/panelists include </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Beryl Love,
executive editor, Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Kyle Nagel,
editor, Dayton Daily News <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Maryanne
Zeleznik, news director, Cincinnati NPR affiliate WVXU-FM <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jeff Brogan,
Vice-President/General Manager, WCPO-TV <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Tim Geraghty,
News Director WKRC-TV <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Moderator -
Duane Pohlman, WKRC-TV <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">10:45-11:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session I</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Covering Trans Issues</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">:
Ohio lawmakers have lots of opinions about trans kids. And lots of ideas about
what laws should apply to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Pike County Murders:</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Ohio
media will be back on the state’s largest mass murder story this spring with
another trial in the 2016 eight-victim case from Pike County. Daily media find
themselves up against documentary makers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Noon-1 p.m.: <b><u>Lunch
with Keynote:</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">SPJ
executive director remarks<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Beryl Love to introduce keynoter
and provide an overview of Gannett’s “Kids Behind Bars.” <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Laura Bischoff on “Kids Behind
Bars,” Gannett’s investigation into horrific outcomes in Ohio’s four
juvenile jail institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Patti Newberry will serve as
coordinator.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">1:15-2:15 p.m. –
Concurrent Sessions II</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sports of All Sorts:</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> In
markets with popular college or professional teams, sports always used to get
the clicks. This panel explores why that’s still the case for print/online
reporters, but less true these days for TV stations. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Melanie Laughman, Cincinnati
Enquirer and more<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2pt; margin-top: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Moderator: Perry Farrell, </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Wayne State
University, Detroit </span><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 11.0pt; margin: 11pt 0in 2pt; mso-outline-level: 5;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Food for
All: </span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The art of review is in steep decline – except when it
comes to food. In Detroit, Lyndsay Green was a 2023 Pulitzer finalist. In
Cincinnati Keith Pandolfi carries on the tradition of high-level food writing. Here
more on the topic and why food continues to be popular. <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Cincinnati magazine food critic
Brandon Wusk<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 11.0pt; margin: 11pt 0in 2pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; mso-outline-level: 5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Moderator: Marty Fischhoff, Detroit
Public Television<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Grant Writing:</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> A how-to
workshop for journalists on writing grants. Find out tips and what it takes to
draft a grant proposal.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nicole DeCriscio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">2:30-3:30 p.m. –
Concurrent Sessions III</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Politics and Ethics:</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> How do
the hot election stories of 2024 test journalists’ ethics? We’ll look to the
SPJ Code of Ethics for examples of stories that challenge journalists to stay
on the straight and narrow. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Speakers/panelists will include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Howard Wilkinson, Becca Costello, WVXU political reporters; Laura Bischoff, Gannett; and more<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Moderator: Tom McKee<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Non-Profit News:</span></u></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> What’s
new in the non-profit news ecosystem as they aim to fill the Region 4-5 news
deserts. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nicole DeCriscio, The Owen News Project, Founder and others<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">3:30-4:30
p.m. – <b>Saturday will conclude with the MOE Awards celebration. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">*Note:
final schedule is subject to change. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p>Get tickets for the conference here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spj-regional-conference-2024-region-4-and-5-at-nku-griffin-hall-tickets-850327130337?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spj-regional-conference-2024-region-4-and-5-at-nku-griffin-hall-tickets-850327130337?aff=oddtdtcreator</a></p><p>HOTEL INFO:</p><p><b>Embassy Suites by Hilton Rivercenter.</b></p><p>Attendees can reserve rooms within the room block using your exclusive group rate of $179</p><p><em>Attendee website:</em> <a href="https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/cincinnatisocietyprofessionaljournalists91o/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank" title="https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/cincinnatisocietyprofessionaljournalists91o/">https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/cincinnatisocietyprofessionaljournalists91o/</a></p><p><em><strong>Group Name: </strong></em><strong>Greater Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists</strong></p><p><em><strong>Group Code: 91O</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Central Reservations Number:</strong></em><em> 866.344.7548</em></p><p>RESERVATION DEADLINE is Friday, March 22nd @11:59:59 PM.</p><p><b>Holiday Inn - Cincinnati Riverfront</b></p><p>Rate $119 - check in April 12 and check out April 13</p><p class="yiv4155584473ydp10c77599yiv4224579785MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; outline: none;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/find-hotels/select-roomrate?fromRedirect=true&qSrt=sBR&qIta=99801505&icdv=99801505&qSlH=CVGRF&qCiD=12&qCiMy=032024&qCoD=13&qCoMy=032024&qGrpCd=SPJ&setPMCookies=true&qSHBrC=HI&qDest=600%20W%20Third%20Street%2C%20Covington%2C%20KY%2C%20US&srb_u=1">Click the link</a> to start bookng. The deadline to reserve a room is Mar. 29.</span></p><p class="yiv4155584473ydp10c77599yiv4224579785MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; outline: none;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; outline: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv4155584473ydp10c77599yiv4224579785MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; outline: none;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqbOQHEBL7cGoWjoZPpBPXUEXza4CT-Fl2LqFOEzaelSV861E62ieRiGJXSh2dl4yrUzAe7soOIbNuvKdCICWO32WqZoX2WyP27LyOWbWsCQryBFVp-a5sV7v50KmIhIY4W9twmop50GCAdKRQlzSjbXLDGZhfXt7vp4xvQrpOlI0t0ff31Mc1owT/s1241/Screenshot_20240329_043718_Chrome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1241" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqbOQHEBL7cGoWjoZPpBPXUEXza4CT-Fl2LqFOEzaelSV861E62ieRiGJXSh2dl4yrUzAe7soOIbNuvKdCICWO32WqZoX2WyP27LyOWbWsCQryBFVp-a5sV7v50KmIhIY4W9twmop50GCAdKRQlzSjbXLDGZhfXt7vp4xvQrpOlI0t0ff31Mc1owT/w233-h400/Screenshot_20240329_043718_Chrome.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; outline: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-52639787289308317722024-02-15T18:36:00.000-08:002024-02-15T18:36:45.409-08:00Join us for an SPJ/PRSA Mixer on Tues., Feb. 27 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Revel OTR<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrx2zXmEQUtrs3ZQwqTO7_zY9B3cjMXSZYJX_UxZBVxurYsiOoK6XUe5y0QmlKw-0vgRXDs8dZjHiaDbXi0n0kSKKpwkDiGD4cT2t6ao4K3MRakBpoK_6SULUeM9zgxtEhSIN7LLkeX_b3ZLcFZJQIKq_KpMVxXQwv5Yu2L0Urixmazy1EeAzwtDWK/s1080/SPJ%20&%20PRSA%20discuss%20Getting%20stories%20out%20in%20an%20election%20year.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrx2zXmEQUtrs3ZQwqTO7_zY9B3cjMXSZYJX_UxZBVxurYsiOoK6XUe5y0QmlKw-0vgRXDs8dZjHiaDbXi0n0kSKKpwkDiGD4cT2t6ao4K3MRakBpoK_6SULUeM9zgxtEhSIN7LLkeX_b3ZLcFZJQIKq_KpMVxXQwv5Yu2L0Urixmazy1EeAzwtDWK/w493-h493/SPJ%20&%20PRSA%20discuss%20Getting%20stories%20out%20in%20an%20election%20year.png" width="493" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-9205938171647808932024-02-12T18:54:00.000-08:002024-02-15T18:59:10.190-08:00Cincinnati's Storytelling of Journalism is Back for the Second Year! <p><span data-offset-key="5cobh-0-0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="5cobh-0-0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmu8T9J1vDUIsqL358MQmhDUgIAS5gmepa1QXd6fe26z_ldegSoXDEyQxA9R5sGmZEMGzuULeyhJ3LejS72wPFqj24_sbrFdeJreHjWbVxZtN_BOPLJXOOZdmtG7JPCBhrSXzJw9_cfJ2eDecp6_aSqTfF7ge6gyH_qkIZVVYhFaMEhuyPt3kScZ-/s2971/SPJ_Horizontal_Print.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="2971" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmu8T9J1vDUIsqL358MQmhDUgIAS5gmepa1QXd6fe26z_ldegSoXDEyQxA9R5sGmZEMGzuULeyhJ3LejS72wPFqj24_sbrFdeJreHjWbVxZtN_BOPLJXOOZdmtG7JPCBhrSXzJw9_cfJ2eDecp6_aSqTfF7ge6gyH_qkIZVVYhFaMEhuyPt3kScZ-/w425-h101/SPJ_Horizontal_Print.jpg" width="425" /></a></span></span></div><span data-offset-key="5cobh-0-0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><br />Back for the 2nd Year - Cincinnati's Storytelling of Journalism Project. This collaborative effort between Cincy SPJ and NKU journalism students highlights some of the amazing journalists and award-winning stories from Greater Cincinnati. Find out more: </span></span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9bf0; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-offset-key="5cobh-1-0">https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/p/cincinnatis-storytelling-of-journalism_15.html</span></span><span data-offset-key="5cobh-2-0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><p></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-22934862628823152472024-02-07T09:06:00.000-08:002024-02-07T09:06:53.491-08:00Keith BieryGolick’s Years-Long Journey to Detail the Experience of Two Kidnapped Americans<p> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Aedom Worku</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-626b9fcf-7fff-21d0-9735-9a9c791a6a48"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 2pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This story is a part of the Cincinnati’s Storytelling of Journalism project, which represents a collaboration between</span><a href="https://nku.edu/academics/informatics/programs/undergraduate/journalism.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Northern Kentucky University (NKU) journalism students</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the NKU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and the</span><a href="http://cincyspj.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students interviewed professional journalist winners and finalists from the Greater Cincinnati SPJ Chapter’s </span><a href="https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2023/06/winners-and-finalists-announced-greater.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to create these</span><a href="https://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/annotation-tuesday/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nieman Storyboard Annotations</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-inspired Q&As and story annotations that analyze and celebrate our region’s award-winning works of journalism.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Award: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Feature Story</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Journalist: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Keith BieryGolick, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Cincinnati Enquirer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Story:</span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Feducation%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fmadison-schools-shooting-4-years-later-some-wounds-never-heal%2F4874636002%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cdaymi%40nku.edu%7C43f74b9c64534aa124bc08d9a5eb452c%7Cac3218551f554d0bb2fa531085ca3022%7C0%7C0%7C637723253200151479%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=DcbpCKtruLGOhjfVabY41Ic98LLXkXENYb3URl1Oonk%3D&reserved=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/10/13/us-military-contractors-kidnapped-yemen-mark-mcalister-john-hamen/10182298002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Taken: The harrowing tale of two Americans kidnapped overseas</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Student interviewers: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Isabella Huecker, Kylie McCulloch, Taj Ross and Aedom Worku</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 2015, the trajectory of an ordinary day for Keith BieryGolick, breaking news reporter at the Cincinnati Enquirer, took an unforeseen turn. At the center of a captivating narrative was a report circulating through national media channels: an American contractor, John Hamen, was kidnapped and tragically killed in Yemen.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As the news unfolded, BieryGolick worked to confirm the story and unravel the identity of the individual behind the headlines. This marked the beginning of a compelling, several years-long storytelling journey.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The resulting piece, ‘</span><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/10/13/us-military-contractors-kidnapped-yemen-mark-mcalister-john-hamen/10182298002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Taken: The Harrowing Tale of Two Americans Kidnapped Overseas</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">’, was a profound exploration of the disappearance of John Hamen and his associate, Mark McAlister, and the intricate details surrounding it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This piece not only took more than five years to write and publish, but it was also BieryGolick’s first long-form story, “This was about 10,000 words,” BieryGolick said, “the longest story I've done before.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Reflecting on the challenges faced during the writing process, BieryGolick openly shares the difficulties of transitioning to a longer format, experimenting with structural changes, and wrestling with internal doubts—a universal struggle among writers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It was way out of my comfort zone,” BieryGolick said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Yet despite this, BieryGolick’s professional pursuit found him delving into the intricacies of Hamen’s and McAlister’s lives, an investigative endeavor that led to him reaching out to friends, family, and acquaintances. He painted a narrative that surpassed the confines of the Yemeni incident and delved into the lives of both families post-captivity. And he did it all with sensitivity and respect.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As he put it, “The idea was to tell the complete story, the real story which had not been told before.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Now, eight years after this journey began, BieryGolick is sharing the process behind his work. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NKU students Taj Ross, Aedom Worku, Isabella Huecker and Kylie McCulloch interview BieryGolick about the ethical dilemmas of working on such stories and the process behind them.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How did you decide on the time sequencing structure, such as going from 2015 to 2021, for this story?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That was a big part of figuring out how to best tell this specific story. Initially, when talking to my editor about it, her vision was to tell it chronologically. Mark and John get kidnapped, go through the story, and then cover the aftermath and what they're still going through. I was very interested in this story from the beginning. But as soon as I found out some of the information about what Mark was still going through after he was released, I was more interested in exploring that and the aftermath, and what it's like to have something like this happen to you. Then go back to your hometown and work two jobs because you don't have that much money, and that's just what you always did. I was always very interested in that aspect of the story versus like, 'I really wanna tell this hostage story.' </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1PO9Tjbvctkw9dQhxMCUjjI2BC522v6s753KjB9Kbwt3Aj5zGCNSCo4OiL9vZ3t762tmjkmkTv9vfTnnEE8dLxbo8KfKRJMaXg_V-anLh4AwvsY6veExzGDtDbAB7hKHS_Pf_9CGBhxY1zIecvO66m3jY68IX81weYPikjtHaBqAoLwGrkv989WZbVPN/s2000/BieryGolick_Keith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1PO9Tjbvctkw9dQhxMCUjjI2BC522v6s753KjB9Kbwt3Aj5zGCNSCo4OiL9vZ3t762tmjkmkTv9vfTnnEE8dLxbo8KfKRJMaXg_V-anLh4AwvsY6veExzGDtDbAB7hKHS_Pf_9CGBhxY1zIecvO66m3jY68IX81weYPikjtHaBqAoLwGrkv989WZbVPN/w286-h286/BieryGolick_Keith.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Keith BieryGolick</i></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The idea with the structure was to kind of do both, to have my cake and eat it too. I do go chronologically, but I break it up with some of my visits with Mark and different things that break up the narrative of going straight through it. I was like, I need to try this and get this draft done and then show it to her, and then we can decide if it works or not. Because I really felt like some of my visits with Mark are some of the most revealing things in the story. If you just pack them all at the end, I wasn't sure if they would have the same impact. But the idea is that you feel more when you find out that John is dead. And you feel more when you find out Mark is released. The idea is that you're more invested in these characters. It was definitely an intentional decision to try to get you more invested in the characters but do it in a way that didn't bore you. So, putting them all together even if you had to kind of mix up the chronology a little bit was my solution to that. That was a very intentional decision to withhold that information until that point in the story. I mean, that was something I talked with my editor about. No matter how we're structuring it, we can't have the headline say, “One person killed”, and we can't have the lead paragraph say, “you know, they were kidnapped, and then one of them was killed, and then the other one survived.” That was a very intentional decision to put that where it was in the narrative so that it had the kind of maximum impact, and you felt the weight of that. If you put it somewhere else or if the reader knew that going in, it would have less of an impact.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You said that you and Mark had a deep connection. How did you juggle your friendship with him while maintaining your role as a journalist?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">My opinion is that it's okay to develop relationships with these people because you're never going to get the real story if you don't do that. At the same time, that makes it very difficult when you have to put something in a story that you know they're not going to like—or something that makes them look unflattering.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And so, the thing that I just always run into in almost all my favorite stories is, at some point, there's kind of that dilemma where it's like, I like this person, I enjoy spending time with them. You know you don't want to hurt anybody; you don't want to make things worse for people… But then I always remind myself like, I'm not writing the story for them. I'm writing the story for random reader X. And it's my job to tell as close to the truth as I can the whole story. It's my duty to them to deliver as close to the whole picture as I can. And I try to tell people that, too, while I'm talking to them and developing relationships. Because at a certain point, you talk to somebody 50 times, right? Like, they kind of forget that you're a journalist, that's the whole point of talking to them that many times. So, yeah, developing that relationship is a benefit to me. But then it's also a responsibility at some point to remind the people that I'm talking to that I’m a journalist.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How did you collect information about Mark's time while captive? Was it simply interviewing him or did you use other methods?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The biggest thing was trying to get as many different people, as many different sources of information, as possible. That’s definitely always a tricky thing when you’re trying to recreate things that you were not there for. You know, I could go to Tennessee and visit Mark and, you know, spend time with him and be there for that. But obviously, you know, I couldn’t go to Yemen; I wasn’t there in the airport with them. I mean, I talked to Mark probably 40 to 50 times, maybe more, I didn’t keep track. But that was just an ongoing thing for a long time. One of the big sources of information was the lawsuit that his and John’s families filed. There was a lot of information there.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">So, you were kind of able to double check what the lawsuit said to what Mark said. If there’s a specific detail I want to use, I’m going to ask Mark multiple times about it. One, to double check it, and two, to maybe pull out another detail from him. He’s not going to tell me the first time, but he might tell me the second time. And then, also, I was able to talk to someone who was in the prison cell with Mark. So, that was helpful—being able to describe the prison and have another source of information for that. I was able to talk to Mark’s boss who was in Yemen at the headquarters, at the state department, at the embassy. So that was another source to balance exactly what things looked like. And, yeah, just always trying to get as many sources as possible and going back and forth with people to say, ‘Hey, we talked last week. This is what I heard, this is how I’m describing it, does that sound right?’ And then kind of going from there.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/10/13/us-military-contractors-kidnapped-yemen-mark-mcalister-john-hamen/10182298002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Taken: The harrowing tale of two Americans kidnapped overseas</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Keith BieryGolick, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Enquirer</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Hotel: Sanaa, Yemen – 2014</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Death to America. Death to Israel.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The chants reverberate around a 13-acre hotel compound in Sanaa. There is no electricity, but power generators from the U.S. State Department keep everything running. Shell casings litter the ground, and Marines are stationed on the roof.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark McAlister walks around a track at the Sheraton hotel, and he hears explosions. This is his first time in Yemen, and he often hears gunfire. Mark is a construction manager from Tennessee, but he now finds himself in the middle of a </span><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1078972" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">civil war.</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To save an embassy, the State Department pays a private company in Florida up to $250 million to maintain and upgrade this compound. Working for Advanced C4 Solutions, Mark oversees the installation of blast walls. His team places 4-by-8 sheets of clear PVC in front of hotel windows. It won’t stop a rocket, but it will stop shrapnel and keep glass from shattering into rooms.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When a violent militia called the Houthis </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/14/yemen-crisis-war-hunger-cholera-leave-millions-suffering/477763001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">invade the country’s capital</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Mark and his colleagues are forced to evacuate. Six weeks later, they return.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Yemen, or at least this part of it, is in </span><a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/yemen-crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">turmoil</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. But they have a contract.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In February of 2015, Mark is evacuated for the second time. An embassy vehicle is pummeled with gunfire outside the compound, and the contract is suspended. The U.S. government withdraws all military and diplomatic personnel from this Middle Eastern country.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The embassy closes, and the Marines never return.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">America is not at war with the Houthis, but after a political uprising, leaders in Iran spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to arm this rebel group from the mountains of northern Yemen. To oust the country’s U.S.-backed government and aid a bloody conflict with Saudi Arabia, Iran officials train the Houthis to kidnap. They train them to torture.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They train them to kill.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And once the Houthis overthrow the Yemeni government, that’s exactly what they do. In 2015, they detain hundreds of innocent people. Six of them are American. These people are not soldiers. They are journalists, construction managers and teachers.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is a story about two of them, and it starts when Mark returns to Yemen for the third time.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Airport: Sanaa, Yemen – October 20, 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> How did you decide on this format? </span><span style="background-color: #e06666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I knew very early on in my reporting I wanted to start this story at the airport. When you read the court documents and testimony from the eventual lawsuit, it reads like a movie. So, I wanted to try to grab the reader with this intense action and leave them wanting to read the rest. I ended up putting the airport section second, because as much as I wanted to throw the reader into the kidnapping part of the story, I thought they needed some context so it would make sense. I also didn’t want to interrupt the flow of the story too much later on, so using the hotel scene as an introduction of sorts made sense to me. Same thing at the end, where I viewed the very last section almost like the ending to a movie when there is text on the screen about what happens after the final frame. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark McAlister steps off the plane at an airport with only one runway. He walks across its tarmac and sees a familiar face. His hotel manager from the Sheraton is shouting his name.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark waves, even though he is sick from water he drank the night before. A few minutes later, Mark gives his passport to an airport official and is told to sit down. United Nations personnel from his flight continue past him.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">More than 30 minutes pass while the man with Mark’s passport talks on the phone. Mark watches a white van pull up outside. He looks around and doesn't see his hotel manager anymore. He doesn’t see the U.N. security team he thought would escort him to the hotel.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By the time the Houthis climb out of that van wearing masks and carrying assault rifles, the airport is empty. Mark can only see their eyes. Green and red patches on their sleeves say “Death to America” in Arabic.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s sometime after 4 p.m., and it will get dark soon.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Turn around,” a man shouts in English. Mark asks why, and the Houthis raise their guns.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark is blindfolded, hands bound with a scarf. His colleague resists. John Hamen III is a former Bronze Star sergeant with too many awards to fit into one box on his discharge papers. His job here is security, and his first instinct is to escape.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A father to seven children, he eventually relents.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Houthis shove the Americans into their van. Inside, the doors are lined with barbed wire. Mark hears his partner whisper. John has wriggled his hands free, but Mark can barely hold his head up.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Houthis drive for 20 minutes, and Mark counts each second. One of the men talks to him, but Mark is no longer listening. His world is spinning. When the van stops, the Houthis throw Mark and John onto the ground.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They lead them into a dark room, and the interrogation begins.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> How did you go about accurately creating a scene like this when you weren’t personally there? What ethical issues did you consider?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I interviewed Mark dozens and dozens of times—I’d guess something like 50 times in total. I first reached out to him, through his lawyer, in 2018 or 2019. We began speaking on the phone once a week, and it was rare that we didn’t talk for at least an hour. I eventually visited him in Tennessee on multiple occasions. So over time, I asked Mark very specific questions about details multiple times in multiple different ways. The key to recreating something like this is gathering information from as many sources as possible. So I gained access to hundreds and hundreds of pages of court documents, I had testimony from Mark and others, I had emails and other FOIA request documents from the State Department. I interviewed Mark’s boss on the project, and I interviewed one of his cellmates in Yemen. I read through lawsuits about other Americans who had been kidnapped in Yemen. I watched PBS documentaries about the Houthis and read as much as I could about the ongoing issues in Yemen. The opening line in this section comes from watching YouTube footage and looking through AP photographs to give you a sense of size and place: </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark McAlister steps off the plane at an airport with only one runway</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Struggle: Greenfield, Tennessee – August 13, 2021</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pictures from Mark’s failed marriage hang on the walls, and Fox News plays in the background. Coverage of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan fills his television. Mark is looking for his cellphone when he turns to the TV. The capital of Afghanistan is in disarray.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As a project manager, Mark helped construct buildings like the ones now turned to rubble on the news. He started working overseas in 2005. His son was in middle school, and one of his daughters had just started college. His wife was a hair stylist, and their family largely lived paycheck to paycheck.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark almost always had two jobs – including digging graves. It’s why he took a dangerous position and left Tennessee for Iraq, a day before his son’s 11th birthday. In Mark’s small hometown – population 2,078 – everyone seems to know him. And most go to his church.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When no one knew whether he was dead or alive, there were prayer vigils. At church and at the school’s gymnasium. There were stories on the local news.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tonight, Mark brings up Yemen without being asked. Because no one asks anymore. In his living room, almost six years after his capture, he cries. He tries to collect himself, but he can’t stop.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“People don’t realize how good they have it,” he says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark can barely speak now.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Life is a struggle.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> What impact were you trying to make by jumping from the past and future?</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I initially had discussions with my editor about telling this story in a strictly chronological way. It’s very complex, so that made sense. She was concerned that revealing too much too soon would spoil the story, making readers check out. She was right. But what drew me to this story in the first place was wondering what life was like for Mark after his release from prison. I wanted to know what an event like this did to his family, as well as John’s. I decided on this structure (of jumping around in time) because I didn’t want to lose the emotional aftermath part and hide it until the end. I wanted to give the reader a little more information about the characters so they might care more deeply about Mark and John as the kidnapping narrative unfolds. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Prison: Yemen – October 20, 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark leans into John’s back, hands and wrists turning purple from the handcuffs. He might throw up.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Houthis remove their blindfolds, ordering the Americans to squat against the wall. They leave to retrieve confiscated computers and phones. Mark sees two windows covered by curtains. He doesn’t see the metal bars behind them. He talks to John about escaping, and the guards return. The Houthis ask Mark and John for passwords. They ask for names. They ask who they work for.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They threaten them with Tasers. They call them spies.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Houthis take necklaces, shoes and watches. Looking for anything sharp, they take Mark’s glasses because they don’t want him to kill himself. They take John’s wedding ring.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark is thrown into a chair and John is carried to another room. Again, they ask Mark his name. They ask what he is doing in this country. He tells them he’s a quality control manager. He tells them he works at the Sheraton hotel on a contract to oversee renovations for the U.S. embassy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"You're CIA,” they say.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark can’t hear much from John’s room, except yelling. This continues until at least 3 a.m.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the hallway, Mark holds up a piece of paper with writing on it he doesn’t understand. The guards take his picture. The Houthis open a large door, laughing while pointing a rifle at Mark. They lock him into a 12-foot by 9.5-foot cell.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark is alone.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is cold and damp, and there are no windows. A dim bulb in the hallway shines through a slit in the door. It only lights up the top half of the cell. When the Houthis turn off the light, Mark can no longer see the hand in front of his face.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He prays for God to stop his heart.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> You convey the emotional and physical toll in this scene with great detail. Especially with this last line. Can you elaborate on the process of navigating this sensitive scene with Mark, ensuring his comfort while still capturing the essence of his experience? How did you establish trust to delve into such a traumatic experience without causing distress?</span><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Time is probably the biggest answer to the trust piece. I did not get all these details from Mark in one conversation. My goal at the beginning was just to make him feel comfortable and develop a genuine relationship. At a certain point, I had spoken to him so often, I was just trying to learn one new bit of information every time we talked. But Mark was always very open, and I never forced anything. I let him talk about what he wanted to talk about when he was ready. Even from the first time I talked to him, I knew he could carry a narrative story like this. Because everyone in Mark’s small town knew what happened to him, but after a while people stopped asking him about it. They stopped asking how he was doing. Even his family didn’t know the true extent of what he went through and what he was still going through. I sensed early on that he wanted to talk about what happened. Maybe he even needed to talk about what happened. I just gave him an opportunity to do that. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Bible: Greenfield, Tennessee – August 15, 2021</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark answers the door fully dressed: brown pants, pink Polo shirt and boots. It’s Sunday morning, and he wakes up at 4 a.m. He tries to go back to sleep but gets out of bed an hour later.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark often thinks about his time in Yemen as a movie. Maybe it’s easier that way. After the flashbangs of violence depicting his kidnapping, Mark’s Hollywood film would probably start here in Tennessee.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He is sitting by the pool in his backyard, and no one else is awake.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark looks down the rolling hills of his property. The sky is foggy, and he reads his Bible. The very same Bible he slept with in prison. Without glasses, he couldn’t read it. But he held the book close to his heart and placed it near his head when he slept.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Today, the 63-year-old sits under a patio awning he imagined in prison. He looks at the same picture of his ex-wife an interrogator once gave him. His grass is brown and his tree limbs are overgrown. Flowers wilt by the pool. Mark’s home never looked like this before Yemen. But Mark has changed, in some ways he acknowledges and some he doesn’t. As the sun rises, he closes his Bible.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s time for church.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> How much time did you spend on this story? And how did it impact your mental wellbeing?</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I always try to write along the way, but this story probably took about a month or more of focused work to finish the actual writing. I began reporting it in 2015, when Mark and John were kidnapped. I was a breaking news reporter at the time, and this was a very important story for </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Enquirer</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Since John was from Cincinnati, I began trying to learn more about him and his family. I made a FOIA request to the State Department for emails about the situation and requested John’s old military records. I remember driving to his elementary school to look at yearbooks. Even as I changed positions at </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Enquirer</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, I kept chipping away on this story. I have to thank my editor, Amy Wilson, for seeing the potential in this story and encouraging me to take whatever time I needed to tell it right. It wasn’t until 2019 or so that I first spoke with Mark. And it wasn’t until 2021 that I had a sit-down interview with John’s parents. The pandemic slowed the process down. My colleague Meg Vogel (who produced a wonderful </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpdjKW72H8" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">documentary film</span></a><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> about the story) and I planned to visit Mark in 2020. In total, I spent seven years working on this project (obviously not every day). And to answer the question about my mental wellbeing, I would say this story had an overwhelmingly positive impact on me. Yes, it was difficult and there were challenging moments, but pursuing a story I cared about this much made all the other annoying parts about my job worth dealing with. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Cell: Yemen – October 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The cell smells like urine.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark’s toilet is a hole in the floor, rattling from bombs outside. There is PVC pipe in the wall, near the ceiling above the hole in the floor. At times, the pipe allows a small circle of light into this dark hell. Mark watches it grow throughout the day. He imagines the light forming a cross, and he prays.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A small slat in the door swings open three times a day for food, mostly bread and beans. Mark refuses to eat until he sees John. In cell No. 5, Mark hears water pouring into a bucket across the hall. He wonders if the guards plan to waterboard him.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He doesn’t want to be a YouTube video.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark sits on an orange Igloo cooler, pressing his face into a half-inch gap in the door. He tries to breathe fresh air from the hallway, and he sits there for hours. Then, he paces from one corner of the cell to the other. Every eight-and-a-half steps, he touches a cross carved into the wall.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He sings “Amazing Grace.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Houthis give him a 2-inch mattress and a thin quilt, but he doesn’t sleep much. When he hears the screech of unlocking doors and sees weapons aimed at him, he knows it’s time for another interrogation. The Houthis handcuff him, drape a towel over his face and shove him into another room.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They interrogate him every day, sometimes three times a day. They call him a spy and ask the same questions over and over. They ask why America is destroying their country.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark coughs up blood, and he asks to see John.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Back in his cell, he uses his belt buckle to carve a single line into the wall. He starts near the floor. The next day, he scratches another line. This is how he keeps track of the days. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty. Twenty one.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On the 22nd day, he gets a cellmate.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As I’m reading this, I can’t comprehend that any of this really happened to a person. Was this something you considered as you were writing this story? How did you write this in a way that makes it real to the reader?</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I tried to keep the language simple, especially in the prison sections. This was an amazing story, and there was no need to dress it up in flowery language. But that’s also why I think the scenes in Tennessee were so important to me, and to this story. Right after you read about Mark scratching lines into the prison wall, you go to his church. I rode on that church bus with him, and it is a reminder that this isn’t a movie. This isn’t just based on a true story; this is a true story. And this is something Mark and John’s family have to deal with every day—even once the rest of the world moves on. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Church: Greenfield, Tennessee – August 15, 2021</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On 95.1 FM, radio hosts talk about depression and suicide.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark is driving the church bus today. First, he picks up a man in a wheelchair who tells him about a car crash near his home. Then, he picks up a woman who is angry she cannot drive herself. Finally, Mark stops to pick up a woman whose dead husband was once the only doctor in Greenfield.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She helped deliver Mark.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Growing up, Mark rode the church bus with his dad, who also took turns driving. Today, Mark drives past a sign for Greenfield, Tennessee, where the slogan is: “You don’t get lost in the shuffle.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At church, Mark rarely sits. He collects donations and changes attendance numbers on a board outside the chapel. He used to be a deacon. Now, he is the Sunday School director. At one time, his ex-wife taught classes here.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She doesn’t attend anymore.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">During the service, Mark sits in a pew toward the back. He wants to see everything. And he doesn’t want to be taken by surprise. Next to him are his son, his son’s fiancé and his own girlfriend, who takes notes and wears a pink polka-dot dress to match Mark’s shirt. Afterward, his son visits his fiancé’s family. Mark hasn’t met them yet. They invite him to dinner, but he declines.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He doesn’t want to miss evening service.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Doctor: Yemen – 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Guards jostle the doctor awake at 2 a.m.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Do you speak English?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s been three months since the Houthis abducted Abdulkader Al-Guneid from his home, just days after his 66th birthday. The fact that he was a doctor and the mayor of Yemen’s third-largest city did not matter. It’s November now, and the guards lead him to a new cell. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Inside, Mark is confused. The doctor speaks slowly.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I’m Abdulkader, from Taiz,” he says. “I’m your new companion.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I’m Mark from Tennessee.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Abdulkader encourages his cellmate to eat, and he gives Mark fruit he’s hidden from guards. Mark takes three pieces.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Abdulkader is an activist in a city six-and-a-half hours away. He’s being jailed for tweets he sent about the Houthis, a group he explains to Mark like this: In America, he says, it would be like the Ku Klux Klan ruling the country because of support from a foreign nation.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In Yemen, he tells Mark, the Houthis’ rise to power has led to years of war and years of death. His people feel hopeless.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The doctor tells Mark his city doesn’t have access to vegetables, and the Houthis urinate in their water tanks. He tells Mark it’s dark in here because a prisoner tried to hang himself by electrical wiring from the lights.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The guards took the lights out.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark tells the doctor about attending church three times a week and about teaching Bible study. He tells him he likes honey in his coffee. He tells him about his wife and grandchildren, the youngest born a day after he left for Yemen.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Later, the Houthis handcuff Mark and Abdulkader together, barefoot with towels over their heads. In the hallway, they're instructed not to speak. For the first time in three weeks, Mark steps outside. He can barely see. It takes almost 30 minutes for his eyes to adjust. When they do, he looks down. His arms are wrinkled, his muscle gone. He pulls his skin down in flaps.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He’s lost 30 pounds.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark sees his prison, built on the side of a mountain. He sees blue sky, the bluest he’s ever seen. He doesn’t see John.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After an hour, Mark returns to his cell. He and the doctor work out together, and Mark gets stronger. His beard grows long and ragged, but he begins to eat. The guards give Mark fish, and he shares it with Abdulkader.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before they eat, they pray.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark learns to tell time by the prisoners’ prayers. And he often drums on the wall with his hands. He drums a beat he believes John will recognize. When he hears a response, he knows John is alive.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">But Mark grows depressed. Prison is breaking him. His family doesn’t know if he’s alive, and he worries he’ll miss his son’s college graduation at home. He worries he’ll die in here. He is walking back and forth across the cell when the shouting begins.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark is angry, and his shouts turn to screams. He spits. He threatens the guards and screams at the doctor. He shouts for fresh air, for sun.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark climbs up the cell door, grabbing the bars and shaking them. Mark is rage. Mark is fury. He can’t breathe, and he doesn’t feel anything. He pounds his fists into the door and yells until his hands are cut and his arms are bloodied.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After a few minutes, it’s over. The guards threaten him with batons, and he asks the doctor for forgiveness. Then, it happens again. And again. Mark climbs the walls three or four times a week.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The doctor is scared.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Were there things that you learned that you chose to omit? Can you elaborate or give some information about what it was you left out?</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You might think with a story this long, I put everything in. But I wanted the narrative to read shorter than its length, so I was constantly cutting and editing the story to make it as tight as possible. I wanted to take out any parts where the reader might get bored. I spoke to one of Mark’s Yemeni cellmates for multiple hours. This person was an activist and former politician, a super interesting person who had his own compelling story. He eventually wrote a book about it. I read the book, and used it as another source of information. He was very valuable in helping describe the prison and what went on there. But there was no way I could include everything I Iearned from him, because ultimately this was not his story. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Flight: Memphis, Tennessee - October 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When Crystal McAlister drops her husband off at the airport, she doesn’t say much. It’s the third time she’s taken him here for his job in Yemen. Mark says now if Crystal would’ve asked him to stay, he would have.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">But she doesn’t. She doesn’t have any words left.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She’s already told him it’s not safe. She told him Advanced C4 Solutions, the company hired by the State Department for work in Yemen, would not send him back. When they do, Mark asks his employer if it’s safe. They tell him U.N. personnel will escort him from the airport to the hotel.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And he signs a form acknowledging there will be no military protection.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark and Crystal had been arguing about money. Even after a decade of working overseas, Crystal doesn’t think Mark leaves her enough to live comfortably. The day before Mark’s last flight, they talk about divorce.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At the airport in Memphis, Crystal says goodbye and little else. She usually watches Mark walk through security. Today, she doesn’t get out of the car.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When Mark lands in northern Africa, his last stop before Yemen, Crystal ignores his calls. A few days later, she receives a phone call from Mark's company. They ask for documentation of her husband's work history, school and training. They don’t explain why.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The next day, the call is more urgent.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Ms. McAlister,” an employee says, "it is extremely important that you get me these things now.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When Crystal asks where her husband is, there is a pause.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">No one knows.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Obsessed with finding Mark, Crystal stays up late searching for information about Yemen prisons. She forgets to pay bills, and she closes her beauty salon. She forces herself to adjust to a Middle Eastern time zone, eight hours ahead of Tennessee. She sends messages to people in Yemen through Facebook. She speaks to another American captured and released before Mark. She writes a letter for her husband, giving it to a worker traveling to Yemen for the Red Cross.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark never gets it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Crystal stays awake as many as three days at a time. To sleep, she drinks wine. She stops leaving her home, and her daughter stops trusting her to watch her grandchild. Nothing seems important, except finding Mark. That’s why she always keeps her phone with her.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Even if it never seems to ring.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Call: Yemen – March 2016</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Crystal is in bed when her phone rings.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s 7:30 a.m. The State Department tells her Mark will call, but they’ve told her this before. She falls asleep. When another call wakes her up, Crystal doesn’t recognize the number: 00000.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Hello,” she says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Crystal,” Mark says. “I’m fine and I’m doing well.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She sobs, but Mark remains calm. He tells her to gather herself. He tells her he misses her, and he asks how everyone is doing. She tells him about their new granddaughter, and she tells him about all the people praying for him.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark doesn’t tell her his shirt has holes in it. He doesn’t tell her he hears screams every day. He doesn’t tell her it’s so cold he shakes when he tries to sleep. He tells her his captors are listening, and he tells her she sounds good. After 15 minutes, the call ends.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Back in his cell, Mark carves another line on the wall to signify the passing of another day. It’s been five months and 10 days. The notches almost reach his shoulders now.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A few weeks later, the guards blindfold Mark and lead him down a hallway in the middle of the night. It’s the same way he’s been taken countless times before. This time, the guards turn another direction.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark steps outside, and it’s raining. He doesn’t know if he’s being led to his execution, but he knows the rain feels good. In another building, he’s taken to a new cell. This one is smaller. There’s carpet on the floor, fresh paint on the walls and sunlight shining through a missing brick. The interrogations stop.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eventually, the guards tell him to shave. They bring his suitcase, along with a new shirt and underwear. He changes clothes for the first time in 182 days.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Mr. Mark,” a guard says. “You’re going home.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The words don’t seem to sink in. Mark looks up, graying hair in his eyes.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“What about John?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Scrapbook: Greenfield, Tennessee – August 2021</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On their patio table by the pool, Crystal moves an ashtray full of cigarettes to make room for a scrapbook. Inside are pictures from Iraq, Mark’s first job overseas. He would later work in Afghanistan, where he remembers talking to a man who spent more than seven years there. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark asked how he could miss so much time with family. Then, Mark told the man he could never do that.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark worked overseas for 10 years.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In many ways, he was addicted. The work was exciting. Dangerous. Foreign. Fun. And it paid well: $166,731 a year for his Yemen contract.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">While looking through the scrapbook, Crystal flinches at a photo on Mark’s phone. It’s a picture of his prison, the one she spent months of sleepless nights searching for. She asks him to send it to her, and Mark leaves to feed his cows.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Crystal was 17 when she started dating Mark. She kept it secret because her mom forbade it. But Mark was persistent. They married in 1988 and had three kids together.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Crystal agrees to answer questions, even if she doesn’t always say much. She moved out shortly after Mark was released from prison. She returned, but their marriage was already over. They just didn’t know it yet.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For years, Mark kissed her every morning before leaving for work. Today, he doesn’t even say goodbye. She lives upstairs, and he lives downstairs. Both have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I think I tore the family apart,” Crystal says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She looks off into the distance, puffing a cigarette while “Dust in the Wind” plays on the radio.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“That’s what life is,” she says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She turns the radio off.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Border: Yemen – April 29, 2016</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark has never seen so many guns in his life. In a Houthi stronghold, everyone from 7 years old to 70 holds an assault rifle. They all stare at him. He’s made it out of prison, but he doesn’t think he’s going home.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Houthis show Mark a bombed mosque. They show him a school and a home. Another mosque, another school. All bombed. Mark counts 21 bridges destroyed to keep the Houthis from advancing.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One of the soldiers, through an interpreter, tells Mark they will never give up.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We will die fighting,” he says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark sits in the middle seat of a Toyota 4Runner, knees tucked underneath him. They drive for at least nine hours. When they reach the yellow barricades of Saudi Arabia, a chain-link fence divides the countries. Soldiers stand on each side.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After 20 minutes, a window rolls down. Outside, a man holds up an iPhone and pushes a button.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Mr. McAlister, I work for the diplomatic security embassy here in Saudi Arabia. I want you to listen to this man and follow this man across the border. You do everything he says.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark nods, and the rest is a blur. The man grabs his hand. They walk about 40 yards. In what seems like an instant, Mark looks back and the Houthis are gone.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Saudi Arabian officials run a metal detector across his arms, legs and chest. They drive to the hospital, escorted by dozens of vehicles, where Mark undergoes a full-body scan and two examinations.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At a restaurant near the border two hours later, Mark is greeted by FBI agents. They’re the first Americans he’s seen in six months and 11 days. He finally feels free.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Welcome back,” they say. Then, they tell him:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"John has been murdered."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Tattoos: Chesapeake, Virginia – November 6, 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When Jennifer Hamen pulls into the driveway on her twin daughters’ 12th birthday, five government officials are waiting.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They ask to speak privately, and she sends her kids upstairs. Yesterday, the State Department told her they didn’t know where her husband was. Today, they tell her an American body has been dropped off at a hospital in Sanaa.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Then, they ask about John’s tattoos.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Upstairs, Jen’s oldest son turns on “The Flash,” a superhero show he used to watch with his dad. The younger kids ask questions, but 16-year-old Johann doesn’t have the answers. He knows his dad was kidnapped overseas, and he knows something bad is happening downstairs.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jen tells the State Department that John has a wolf tattoo on his shoulder and a dagger somewhere else. A few moments later, Johann hears his mother scream like he’s never heard her scream before. He turns up the TV.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s an hour before Jen tells her kids. When Johann leads them downstairs, he sees tissues on the couch. His mom’s eyes are red.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I have some really bad news,” Jen says. “Dad passed away.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Her children start crying, and they ask how he died. They ask if they will have enough money to survive. Johann walks to the bathroom, because he doesn’t want to cry in front of his siblings. He is the man of the house now.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The State Department leaves after another hour, and the house is quiet. No one says anything. The twins, who had just returned home from their first school dance, lock themselves in their bedrooms. The only sounds Johann hears are crying and sniffling.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He screams into his pillow.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I love how you have conveyed the feelings of Jennifer Hamen and the children. I can feel their loss through the words. How did you approach narrating such a sensitive and personal moment, balancing the need for detail with respect for the family’s grief? I’m also curious if you interviewed the oldest son Johann? If so, what was that process like? </span><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I tried to interview Johann, but was not able to. He was one of the children who testified at length during a court hearing, so I was able to draw from that. Jen also testified. I exchanged emails with her, but she ultimately decided against participating in the story. As part of the family’s lawsuit, the younger children submitted their own hand-written statements about the night they found out and what their experience has been like since. Those statements are hard to read. In general, I tried to keep John’s family in my head as I edited. I also asked other people to read certain sections from their perspective to help me understand what might go too far or what might be too much detail. The autopsy section is particularly brutal, but it was longer in an initial draft. For this story to be successful, I needed to show this family’s pain and their loss in a real way. I do them no favors by sugar-coating what they experienced. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Autopsy: Dover, Delaware – November 10, 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jen often pretends to wash clothes, shutting the laundry room door to cry by herself.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For a few weeks, she rarely comes out of the bedroom. Johann takes over laundry and dishes. He buys his younger brothers an Xbox game. At some point, Jen asks him to open the gun safe and lock her alcohol away. She is diagnosed with PTSD.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When John’s body is flown back to the United States, it arrives at the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It’s been four days since he was found dead. Jen isn’t allowed to see him.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Inside a black body bag, John is wrapped in a blanket with black, red and gray polka dots. Attached to the bag is a paper tag that says: “Unidentified.” There is still sand on the bottom of his feet.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">During the autopsy, FBI officials take DNA swabs and photographs. The deputy medical examiner finds two vertical lacerations on the center of John’s forehead, likely from the butt of a small rifle. The doctor notices a similar wound on the back of his head. There is a bruise the size of a bottle cap near John’s left eye. The hemorrhaging in his eyes – small purple spots caused by broken blood vessels – indicates a struggle. Contusions cover his arms, legs and chest.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Four ribs are broken.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The doctor photographs a mark around John’s neck. There are no scratches, which means someone probably held him down. The injuries suggest he was strangled.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When John’s body is brought to a funeral home in Portsmouth, Virginia, Jen asks to see him. She’d been told he died of a heart attack. At the funeral home, she sees bruises. She sees cuts and what looks like a broken nose and a black mark circling his neck. She sees images she’ll see for the rest of her life.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John’s death is ruled a homicide.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Briefcase: Yemen – Fall 2015</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before Mark and John, Dave McComas is the first American to return to Yemen. His flight is routine – safe even. A military veteran of 26 years and three wars, Dave oversees the embassy project for AC4S. When he arrives, he is happy to see local workers at the hotel again. But when Mark and John don’t arrive a few weeks later, Dave calls the U.N.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Officials assure him there is nothing to worry about, and they dispatch a security team to the airport. Mark and John have already been taken.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A few weeks later, the co-owner of AC4S calls.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We believe John has been killed.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Later that day, three people arrive at the Sheraton compound. They do not introduce themselves, and they say they have a warrant for Dave’s arrest.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dave walks the property, looking for places to hide if the Houthis break in. He stashes bolt cutters in trees along the perimeter. The men with warrants leave, but Dave grows more scared every day. Government officials tell him to keep eating and drink as much water as possible. If he’s captured, they coach him: Don’t fight. Don’t struggle. Don’t have a weapon.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For more than a week, U.S. officials debate how to get him and two other American employees out of the country. Dave comes to believe the only way he will survive is if the Houthis escort them to the airport. Otherwise, the Houthis could interfere and then deny responsibility.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On Nov. 17, Dave prepares to be detained. He puts on two T-shirts and two pairs of socks. He wears his warmest jacket. He removes the military ID from his wallet, and he takes off his wedding ring.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A Houthi arrives at the compound. He doesn’t speak English, and he doesn’t say anything to Dave. He and the other employees are escorted to the airport. Their car is followed by an armored truck with 15 soldiers aboard. Another gun truck leads the way.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At the airport, Dave is told he’s under arrest.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The employees are separated, and they’re interrogated for an hour. The man questioning Dave has a gun on his hip. He touches it often. Eventually, the Americans are driven to a secluded section of the airport. Behind a gate off in the distance, Dave sees representatives from the country of Oman, their third-party mediator. He and his coworkers eventually board an airplane.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On the plane, Dave watches an Oman official open a briefcase from the overhead bin. He watches the man pull out three stacks of what looks like $10,000 each. Dave watches the man put stacks of money in his pocket and walk off the airplane. He watches the man give the money to a Houthi, kiss him on the cheek and get back on the plane.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They’re allowed to leave.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Parade: Greenfield, Tennessee – May 5, 2016</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Back in America, Dave reads Yemen news twice a day. He speaks to a Houthi lawyer every week, hoping to facilitate Mark’s release. Dave is responsible for a dozen other projects, but he struggles to think about anything but Yemen. He struggles to think about anything but Mark and John.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He hired them both, and he served in the military with John.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s a Thursday afternoon when he hears about Mark’s release. Dave leaves work to pack a bag. He buys a plane ticket to Germany, because he knows Mark will end up at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After his release, Mark spends two days in Riyadh. He showers for the first time, turning the water up as hot as it goes. An FBI agent spends the night with him because they don't want him to be alone.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At the hospital in Germany, Mark calls his daughter. He turns 57, and he gets a haircut. All he wants to do is go home, but officials need to evaluate him. After 192 days in captivity, Mark lost 40 pounds.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He has yet to regain the weight.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before flying to America, Dave stays in a hotel with Mark at the airport. Dave worries Mark will wake up in the middle of the night and forget where he is. He writes Post-it notes and sticks them to Mark’s TV and door.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“This is David McComas,” he writes. “I’m next door.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When Mark gets off the plane in Memphis, Tennessee, his family is waiting for him. His mom is there. His granddaughter. His wife. His kids.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When he sees his family, he sees tears in their eyes. Mark is quiet. Deep down, he knows their tears are about more than joy. His wife can’t believe how old he looks. His daughter can’t believe how small he is. His son describes him as a skeleton with skin.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He looks breakable.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After the airport, their family wants to stop at Outback Steakhouse. They almost always do. But Mark doesn’t want to. He wants to go home. It is dark in Greenfield now, and there is a parade for Mark. A celebration. Police cars and fire trucks and large crowds. It feels like the entire town is here.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It feels like a happy ending. Except everything bothers Mark. The sirens. The shouting. The applause. He just wants to go home.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In his front yard, Mark bends down and kisses the grass.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Courtroom: Washington, D.C. - July 25, 2018</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Court begins at 9:45 a.m., and although the case bears her name, Jennifer Hamen is not there. A week earlier, Jen visits her attorney to prepare to testify. It’s been more than two years since her husband’s death. Her attorney asks if she has any good memories of John.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Every time I think of John,” she says, “I just think of him being tortured.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark and John’s families sue the Islamic Republic of Iran. For years, the lawsuit alleges, Iranian terrorists trained and supported the Houthis. Iran's leaders saw the group as a way to destabilize Yemen and gain an ally in their fight against Saudi Arabia. In the year prior to Mark and John's capture, the Houthis detained more than 5,000 people.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“The Houthis were a hostage-taking organization,” says Jen’s attorney, Randy Singer. “That's what they did.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the courtroom, Mark doesn’t get to speak to Jen. It bothers him, because he wants to tell her John always talked about her. He wants to tell her what John said about his wedding ring before it was taken. He wants to tell her he thinks about John every day, about how he wished he could have gotten his hands untied. He wants to tell her he knows how lucky he is. And he wants to tell her he’s sorry.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For a lot of things, but mostly for not bringing John back home.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jen isn’t ready for that conversation. Instead, Mark tells the judge about guilt that might never go away. He testifies for two hours. He says the CEO of Advanced C4 Solutions told him he was exchanged for 40 Houthis and “a large amount of money.” He testifies his back still bothers him, and his right ear rings throughout the day. His headaches are constant. He’s been diagnosed with PTSD, depression and anxiety.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark has worked all his life, but there are days when he doesn’t want to get up. He just doesn’t care.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After Mark's testimony, court officials turn off public video monitors. A medical examiner who reviewed John’s autopsy talks through postmortem pictures and how the evidence shows John suffered greatly before his death. He uses his hands to demonstrate how someone might strangle a hostage.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jen isn’t in the courtroom yet. When she sits down in the witness box, there is a notebook of exhibits next to her. The notebook includes affidavits, U.N. reports, wage charts, depositions and pictures of weapons Iran shipped to the Houthis.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jen apologizes for being nervous. She was 19 when she met John. She says it was an honor to be a military wife, but after 22 years John’s supervisors thought it was best for him to retire. He moved to a company selling communication equipment to the military. He did well, but it didn’t last. When he was laid off, he called his former Army boss, Dave McComas. Dave offered him a job paying $160,461 a year.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">His first assignment was Yemen.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jen says he left the day after his 45th birthday, and she fell asleep while helping him pack. She woke up when his taxi arrived around 3 a.m. She hugged him and told him she loved him. Before John boarded his plane to Yemen, he told his wife was to make sure the kids did their homework.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When Mark left for Yemen, he visited his daughter Raquel the night before. He told her he didn't want to go back. In the courtroom, she testifies after her brother's video-recorded deposition ends in tears. Raquel says her father retreats inside now during July Fourth fireworks, and he repeats the same things over and over. Instead of going to her father for advice, her father now comes to her.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Crystal McAlister testifies Mark often wakes up in the middle of the night. He yells and grabs her arm. He is distant and quick to anger. He wants to be left alone and often forgets what day it is.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Her attorney asks if Crystal loves Mark.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I do,” she says. But "not like I’m supposed to.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The families’ lawsuit seeks monetary damages, most of which they might never receive because of the country they are suing. But today is about more than money. Today is about more than terrorism. It’s about terror. It’s about scars left from invisible wars. It’s about what happens when the media moves on. It’s about what happens when your friends stop asking how you're doing.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s about anyone who thought this story had a happy ending.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Two days after his 19th birthday, Johann Hamen tells the federal judge about his college major. He picked mechanical engineering because of all the time he and his dad spent working on his Jeep Wrangler, a vehicle passed down from his grandmother.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When his dad died, Johann took on more than any teenager should. And it broke him, even if he pretended to be fine. His grades dropped, he quit cross country and gained weight. He bought expensive Jeep parts because it was the only way he could feel close to his dad. He bottled up his feelings, because he thought that was the best thing to do.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After his testimony, the judge stops Johann. He tells him his dad would have been proud.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Memories: Greenfield, Tennessee - March 2022</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He calls it a black hole.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Christian McAlister only remembers a few things from the year surrounding his dad’s abduction. He remembers looking up at the stars in his driveway at night. He remembers asking God to send his dad home. He remembers the hysterical phone call from his mom when she found out John was dead.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Christian was in college, and he had to step outside to talk to her. In his truck, he listened to his mom cry. When she hung up, it was his turn.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Near the front door of his father’s home now, there is a picture of Christian as a rookie police officer. He is clean-shaven and looks like a teenager. Now an officer in Jackson, Tennessee, Christian works nights. His dad was supposed to be here at 11:30 a.m.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At noon, Mark is driving to lunch. He forgot about his son.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When Mark gets home, he asks Christian where his jacket is. It’s cold outside, and Christian is wearing a red polo. He tells his dad he left it in his truck. A few minutes later, his dad asks him again.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Then, they talk about house projects. They talk about someone Christian needs to call. They don’t talk about much, really. Mark doesn’t ask about his son’s fiancée, or his upcoming wedding. Christian says he’s never had a conversation with his dad about what exactly happened in Yemen, and what his dad might still be going through at home. It's not that he doesn’t want to know. He does. But it might be easier not to.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before Mark leaves, he asks his son if he needs a jacket.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Card: Harrison, Ohio – October 1, 2021</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John’s dad cries in short, terrible bursts.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He is holding a Father’s Day card his son gave him. On the front, a little boy is shaving. Ever since John saw his dad’s Army uniform neatly pressed and hung in the closet, he wanted to be like him. It’s why the young boy dug foxholes in the backyard.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the card, John writes about how he used to watch his dad shave. He writes about how he couldn’t wait to do it himself. He hates shaving now, and he tells his dad he was right.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He shouldn’t have been in such a hurry to grow up.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John’s dad is sitting at the dining room table surrounded by pictures of his son, John Hamen III. His wife asks if he wants a tissue. He declines.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John III joined the Army at 18 and married his wife after two weeks of dating. He showed signs of PTSD after his first tour of duty in Iraq. He lost two children and fathered seven more, several of whom have special needs.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">His dad’s favorite picture, one he kept even though he didn’t keep many, shows John's seven children sitting together on a blanket. His dad kept other mementos, including a picture of his son’s Eagle Scout ceremony and a story he illustrated in grade school.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The story was about the military.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John’s sister used to call him Rambo, because he always wore a headband while he played soldier and she played nurse. Ever since Sarah Mitchell was old enough to understand what the Army was, she knew her brother would end up there. At his funeral, friends left notes about reading military history with John at the library and fighting Commies in their backyard.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">More than one mentioned digging foxholes.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On this day, Sarah opens a shoebox of pictures to show her dad. Disney photos. Military photos. School photos. She tells stories about people visiting her as an excuse to see John. Then, she holds up a picture of her brother in pink, white and sunglasses. Those were the "Miami Vice" years.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John’s dad lives on the second floor of a small apartment. In January 2016, a few months after his son’s death, he is leaning on the hallway railing and looking down.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I don’t know anything,” he says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A representative from the State Department attends his son’s funeral, a ceremony with full military honors. The representative offers condolences and a handshake, but little else. Six years later, the elder Hamen still doesn’t have answers.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He probably never will.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As John’s dad gets older, his memories fade. He doesn’t remember much from his son’s childhood, even when his daughter shows him a picture. More often than not, the specifics are gone. And more often than not, it’s the memories surrounding his son’s death that linger. He remembers singing happy birthday to his son over the phone, the day before he left for Yemen. He remembers Jen calling to tell him his son was dead. He remembers calling Sarah next.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John Hamen Jr. pulls out a handkerchief, hands shaking and lips quivering. He reads the Father’s Day card one more time.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Rebuild: Martin, Tennessee – March 2022</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark is standing on torn-up floor in a home damaged by an unchecked leak. A space heater quietly runs in the corner, and a carpenter’s pencil sticks out of his pocket. Wearing a toolbelt with duct tape on the back loop, Mark drills down flooring. His glasses are covered in sawdust.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At his job site in a college town 14 miles from home, he crouches. He thinks, but only about the next measurement. Only about the next cut. When he’s working, he doesn’t think about Yemen.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He hums “Amazing Grace.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark doesn’t need money. After the lawsuit, a federal judge awarded him $20.7 million. Iran will never pay that. But when the U.S. government seizes property and other assets that can be traced to Iran, that money goes into a fund for terrorism victims. Still, Mark will likely never receive everything he’s owed.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For Mark, work is about finding peace. Or at least trying to.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On Dec. 29, 2017, Mark’s Yemen contract ends. He leaves AC4S. Today, he works more than 40 hours a week fixing houses. He does side jobs most days after work, and he is remodeling his own home, too. Done for the day, he drives home to even more of a mess.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s been a year since his divorce, and the framed family photos are gone. One is in Mark’s bedroom closet. Another is face down on a dusty piano. Crystal has moved out.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Inside his home, Mark searches for a light switch.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I don’t like the dark,” he says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Once he finds it, he begins sweeping. Mark blows off the dining room table and a cloud of dust rises into the air. He opens the windows.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A wall separating the kitchen and living room has been removed. The house is a mess, but his girlfriend doesn’t mind. It shows her Mark is moving on. It shows her he is ready for a new chapter in his life.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark isn’t so sure.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He is scared of getting married again. He occasionally still calls his ex-wife his wife, and he helps her buy a house 2 miles from his. It’s one they looked at when they were still together.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In many ways, including some he doesn’t say out loud, Mark wants his old life back.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sitting in what’s left of his living room, what’s left of his old life, he wonders if he made the right decision. Because for Mark, home is a myth. Home is a fantasy. Home doesn’t exist anymore.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In an empty living room, Mark is reminded his kids don’t visit anymore. Last year, he didn’t put up a Christmas tree. The wind is whistling outside, and Mark is alone. He is thinking about how he survived and about how John didn’t. Sitting on a dusty maroon couch, he is thinking about Christmas. About his son jumping off the roof into their pool. About the Bloomin’ Onion at Outback Steakhouse. He is thinking about his life.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The one he lost, and the one he will never get back.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the concluding paragraphs, you paint a vivid picture of Mark’s solitude and reflections, emphasizing his loss and yearning for his past life. How did you decide on this specific imagery? And was this scene a deliberate journalistic choice to evoke a specific emotional response and provide a sense of closure to the story, or did it organically become the conclusion of the story? </span><span style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> This was one of the moments that stuck with me most when I visited Mark. Not so much because of what he said, but just the feeling I got from sitting with him in an empty house. It was powerful, and it helped me see that even though Mark was doing OK, he was still struggling. As I began to put the story together, I knew I wanted to start at the airport in Yemen. And I knew, or at least I hoped, that I could end with Mark in Tennessee. Because while Mark has a lot of people who love him, there are times when he still feels all alone. In my head, this moment with him in his home seemed to be a visual representation of that. In many ways, it is what the whole story is about.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Epilogue</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, at least 8,000 American contractors have died in the Middle East. That’s 1,000 more civilians than U.S. troops who died in the Middle East during that same period.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In Yemen, more than 10,000 children have been killed or injured since the war began. Every three days there, someone is injured by landmines or unexploded devices.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Between May 2016 and April 2020, the Houthis were responsible for 904 incidents of arbitrary detention, 353 incidents of enforced disappearance and 138 incidents of torture – including 27 deaths in detention centers.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Today, there is no operating U.S. embassy in Yemen.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 2019, Advanced C4 Solutions was acquired by another company, Hui Huliau. In its announcement, the company praised AC4S’s work with the State Department. Hui Huliau did not respond to multiple interview requests for this story. The State Department declined to comment.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark’s cellmate lives in Canada now. In 2016, Dr. Abdulkader Al-Guneid was released after 300 days in captivity. His home in Yemen was destroyed. His youngest sister still lives in the country, and she often asks him about </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/7/end-yemen-truce-leaves-civilians-afraid-dark-days-back" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">gunfire</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> she hears from inside her home.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dave McComas still does the same kind of work, often traveling outside the U.S. for it. Some of the court proceedings in this case upset him. Especially the suggestion his company should not have returned to the Middle East.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It’s never safe,” he said. “It’s Yemen.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dave visited Mark in Tennessee after his release, and he still stays in touch with him. The 53-year-old has not spoken to John’s family, but he sometimes reads old emails from him. He says he doesn’t feel guilt, just sadness.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jen Hamen still has nightmares. At her son’s graduation, she could only think about how John should have been there. Her kids still ask if they’re safe. They ask if terrorists will come to kill them, too.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. If he were alive today, he’d be 52 years old. He’d be a grandfather, like he always wanted. John’s dad is 80 years old, and he thinks about his son often. He thinks about the grandchildren he doesn’t see anymore. He thinks about his family, the one that will never be the same.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He wishes he had more answers.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark still lives in Tennessee, where he got engaged earlier this year. He still works more than one job, and he’s been offered multiple positions overseas.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He has declined them all.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>CincySPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046311500087154077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-2051100526602021432024-02-06T14:58:00.001-08:002024-02-07T09:16:53.493-08:00 John Stowell’s Search for a Local Angle Reveals a Window to War and a Bond of Two Cities<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Mildred Nguyen</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-092e8eff-7fff-c0aa-be1f-55abbcc53b24"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 2pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This story is a part of the Cincinnati’s Storytelling of Journalism project, which represents a collaboration between</span><a href="https://nku.edu/academics/informatics/programs/undergraduate/journalism.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Northern Kentucky University (NKU) journalism students</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the NKU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and the</span><a href="http://cincyspj.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students interviewed professional journalist winners and finalists from the Greater Cincinnati SPJ Chapter’s </span><a href="https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2023/06/winners-and-finalists-announced-greater.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to create these</span><a href="https://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/annotation-tuesday/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nieman Storyboard Annotations</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-inspired Q&As and story annotations that analyze and celebrate our region’s award-winning works of journalism.</span></p></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Award: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Magazine Reporting</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Winning Journalist: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">John Stowell, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Cincinnati Magazine</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Winning Story:</span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Feducation%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fmadison-schools-shooting-4-years-later-some-wounds-never-heal%2F4874636002%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cdaymi%40nku.edu%7C43f74b9c64534aa124bc08d9a5eb452c%7Cac3218551f554d0bb2fa531085ca3022%7C0%7C0%7C637723253200151479%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=DcbpCKtruLGOhjfVabY41Ic98LLXkXENYb3URl1Oonk%3D&reserved=0" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/when-war-hits-home-on-the-ground-in-kharkiv/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When War Hits Home: On The Ground In Kharkiv, Cincinnati’s Sister City</span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b style="font-weight: 700;">Student interviewers: </b>Evan Bales, Mildred Nguyen, Holland Rajewski and Braden White</span></p><div><span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John Stowell was in the car, listening to NPR, when he learned that war had just broken out between Russia and Ukraine. Right away, he wanted to write a story, but not just any story among the hundreds, possibly thousands, that have touched upon the war in Ukraine since. He wanted to take a topic of international scope and shrink it down, narrow it to the city limits of Cincinnati.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">His drive toward localization stems, in part, from his career progression. Stowell emerged from college with a journalism degree, then worked as a reporter for 7.5 years and as a press secretary for another 3.5 years before joining PSI Energy, a utility company that would undergo three mergers into today’s Duke Energy. At PSI, he took charge of environmental policy, government affairs and international relations, a post that required frequent travels outside the country.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Following 28 years with the company, Stowell turned to writing in his retirement, freelancing for </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Magazine</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and Cincinnati Chamber’s business publication </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Realm</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, as well as serving as faculty advisor for Xavier University’s student-run </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Newswire</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. He also seeks to reconnect with the local community, often by hitting up the Google search engine and calling the names that come up (he admits to an infamy for cold-calling people). One of those names is Bob Herring, president of the Sister Cities Partnership that has twinned Cincinnati with, among several cities around the world, Kharkiv in Ukraine.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At first glance, Cincinnati and Kharkiv do not appear to hold much in common. Only after contacting Herring and expressing his interest in writing a story was Stowell able to delve into a shared history that spans over 30 years. The effort also rewarded him with a treasure trove of resources: photos and artifacts of the cultural exchange between the two cities and, most crucially, a chance for firsthand accounts from civilians on the ground in Ukraine, in the early months of Russia’s invasion.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Still, the harsh reality of war hung over the story. Stowell and Herring waited a month before they could secure an interview; Kharkiv was withstanding such furious bombardments that they were not sure who to approach for interviews, if they could approach anyone at all. But perseverance delivered, and eventually they managed to contact two Kharkiv residents: Polina Tymoshenko and Volodymyr Bulba, whose vivid, harrowing windows into war, survival and determination gave the story its foundations and its lasting resonance. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsTI_3f33T6ZSYelCSgo5gDH9XQHzDqTkSb5pWl9oqhZMNFw943FeM3y8nBj3hxiPTmqzmrgz58wr5WUcGMadtnDYEVVghaqNjfy6tIKwr2BaBj5RAknaA8d9aSFDXfONFSD8mVqgSvxP7r1lkMeeDNyNvXFR3kvObbRqE4ZjKSYn2wiS12RI5Q6Ul9Sir/s733/Stowell_Headshot.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="411" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsTI_3f33T6ZSYelCSgo5gDH9XQHzDqTkSb5pWl9oqhZMNFw943FeM3y8nBj3hxiPTmqzmrgz58wr5WUcGMadtnDYEVVghaqNjfy6tIKwr2BaBj5RAknaA8d9aSFDXfONFSD8mVqgSvxP7r1lkMeeDNyNvXFR3kvObbRqE4ZjKSYn2wiS12RI5Q6Ul9Sir/w179-h320/Stowell_Headshot.jpg" width="179" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">John Stowell</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Zoom interview transpired on a late morning for Stowell, evening for the Ukrainians. Tymoshenko and Bulba had just emerged from bomb shelters in their basements; still Stowell recalls the former’s wicked sense of humor, her fearless laughs between accounts of her experience. Sasha Etlin, a Cincinnati public relations consultant and Ukrainian native, joined as translator during the call, where transmission flowed smoothly between two worlds. As the Ukrainians spoke, Stowell was also listening for the sound of bombs falling in the background.</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The end result,</span><a href="https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/when-war-hits-home-on-the-ground-in-kharkiv/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> When War Hits Home: On the Ground in Kharkiv, Cincinnati’s Sister City</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, was published in the August 2022 issue of Cincinnati Magazine, and went on to receive the Society of Professional Journalists 2023 Excellence in Journalism Award for Best Magazine Reporting.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For Stowell, however, the story has not ended yet: the article itself concludes on an ambiguous note as the fates of Tymoshenko, Bulba, Kharkiv and Ukraine hang in the balance. With both sides entrenched in a grinding war of attrition for over a year to date, no end lies in sight to the crippling uncertainty that affects not only the people of Kharkiv, but also their Cincinnati community partners and friends.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NKU students Mildred Nguyen, Holland Rajewski, Braden White and Evan Bales interviewed Stowell about his use of quotes versus his own words, the utility of maps and advice for journalists on cold calling.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Your story has incredibly vivid descriptions of life in the city during the war, mostly from Polina and Volodymyr’s accounts. How did you decide where to use their words and where to use your own?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I tried to use their words as much as I could in terms of how they personally felt and the experience they had up until that point during the war. My verbiage came in when I was trying to describe the situation that they were in. I tried to relate the geography of Kharkiv to Cincinnati geography. I thought it very interesting that the Russians had gotten this close, basically to the I-275 loop, so I thought for the reader to understand how harrowing the situation was, if I could relate the geography — the park, museum, roads, including the suburbs — it would be more real to the readers that Russian missiles could hit as far south as Florence.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Did you use any maps or outside resources to help depict the city of Kharkiv?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I have an old map that I used. I also had a brochure that the Kyiv Chamber of Commerce had put together that had all the cities in Ukraine with the tourist highlights. That’s how I got the information about their park, their museums. I went back and verified it with Bob, first of all to make sure I spelled everything right because it was all in Ukrainian which is in Cyrillic. Maps are sort of interchangeable if you take the language out.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How did you get in touch with Sasha Maslov, the photographer, for your story?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That gentleman was someone that Cincinnati Magazine was familiar with and had worked with on a couple of previous assignments over the years. They knew he was Ukrainian, the editor knew he was planning to go — turned out he was already there! We had a heck of a time getting a hold of him. It didn’t work out quite the way we hoped it would: he was quite restricted in his movement over there; some of the photography was certainly left on the cutting room floor — by cutting floor I mean it was still in Ukraine, and we couldn’t get it into the issue.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The photos that you saw, many of them, were provided by Bob who had been there half a dozen times, and had kept a scrapbook over the years, and from Susan [Neaman] who’d been there two or three times. They were very generous to allow us to use the pictures. There was a picture of the boy’s baseball team, just to show the humanity of the Ukrainian people. I found that the most hardening picture of all because I knew the time when it was taken; I did the math and gosh, they’ve got a gun in their hands now and not a bat. I still wonder to this day how many of those gun boys or men are alive.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You mentioned that you have a habit of cold-calling people. What advice do you have for journalists who are afraid of cold-calling people and journalists who are not afraid of cold-calling people?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Gosh, I don’t know what my advice would be! Maybe, “Get over it! This is the way it works.” I don’t do it a lot. I’d done it so I could have a shot at getting a gig with the magazine. In my last job at Duke Energy, I was in charge of international relations, so I was out of the country a lot. Now that I’m back I want to reconnect with the community and I want to write. I thought that was the best way of doing that. I just got on the Google machine and found out who the editor [of Cincinnati Magazine] was, picked up the phone. Sometimes that works, sometimes that doesn’t.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think for reporters, it’s really important for them to take a chance. …When you guys are on campus, walking to class, do you ever see a student that you don’t know and just say hi to them? That’s the equivalent of a cold-call in a way. I guess a better equivalent would be if you just sit down with a stranger in the cafeteria and engage them in conversation. You never know what you’re going to find, right? You might find a story.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/when-war-hits-home-on-the-ground-in-kharkiv/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When War Hits Home: On The Ground In Kharkiv, Cincinnati’s Sister City</span></a></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By John Stowell, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Magazine</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Polina Tymoshenko has almost grown accustomed to the roar coming out of the north. Sometimes it sounds like a hungry stomach, she says, or a distant growling rumble like an approaching storm. But too often it’s like tonight.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A cacophony of bone-jarring lethality roused Tymoshenko out of a fitful slumber. She, her husband, and six refugees she’d recently taken in bolted to their safe room as blinding flashes of white flame canceled out the star-filled sky. They huddled behind two thick protective walls, unable to do anything but wait and pray. Fortune would either be with them, or they’d die in their night clothes.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The last sentence in this paragraph, “Fortune would either be with them, or they’d die in their night clothes,” packs quite a punch. Was it something that one of your sources said, or did you come up with it yourself?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That was my verbiage. I wanted to portray to the reader the helpless situation they were in and that their immediate fate was dependent on pure luck.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is life in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Cincinnati’s sister city. I hear about the situation first-hand in a Zoom call in late May with Tymoshenko and Volodymyr Bulba, just hours after the latest shelling. “All our lives here in Kharkiv can be divided before and after February 24,” says Bulba, a college professor with a resonant but soothing voice. “That date is when a new life began.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">February 24 will forever be Ukraine’s Day of Infamy, when Russian soldiers poured over the border in a brutal attempt to subjugate their neighbor and wipe out its emerging democracy. “Oh, yes,” says Tymoshenko. “That day everything fell apart. We lost our spiritual and our physical balance. Nothing is the same.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Was the Zoom call efficient enough for you to connect with the source mentioned here? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Yes, it was amazingly efficient. Unlike our attempt last week of the ill-fated Zoom call from just 20 miles away, we had no interruptions, the sound and visuals were good and — importantly — I had a translator fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian. There were actually two sources here — both in Kharkiv — Polina and Volodymyr. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s been 20 years since Tymoshenko and Bulba walked the streets of Cincinnati. They visited our neighborhoods and suburbs, spent hours in our schools, admired our architecture, and enjoyed ice cream on Fountain Square. They were among several groups of Kharkivites who have visited the Queen City over the years since the sister city relationship was formed in 1989, and they remember the trip fondly, vividly recalling that their visit came as the United States was dealing with the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. They were here for only three weeks, but the friends here they made remain friends—and they’re now part of The Cause.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> In this paragraph Polina and Volodymyr mentioned that they came to the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks. Did they say anything in particular about that experience, the general atmosphere in the country or how they were treated? How do you decide what background details to include or leave out?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We didn’t dwell on the details of their visit vis-a-vis timing (9-11). They were both impressed with the friendly reception they received and they loved the architecture, particularly in OTR. I remember Polina, in particular, mentioning how she never had to eat alone (everyone wanted to take her out to dinner). They both mentioned how they’ve kept in touch with many of the friends they met here 20 years ago.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bob Herring had felt the tension in the weeks leading up to the invasion. The former principal of Nativity School in Pleasant Ridge has been to Kharkiv five times and currently serves as president of the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister Cities Partnership. He has friends there, or he did. Some have fled, while some doggedly remain and help keep the city running. Some, he acknowledges with a shudder, he can’t say.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I’m still in touch with my friend Tamara,” says Susan Neaman, the organization’s vice president. She speaks with a hesitant cadence that reflects her concern. “She’s still in Kharkiv, and what she says I have great trouble with.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tamara, who is in her 70s, sounds like all our grandmothers. Everything is fine. Don’t worry about me. The shops are open. We have food and water and electricity. We are safe. Neaman suspects Tamara, whom she hosted when Tamara visited Cincinnati, is shielding her from the truth.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I love the descriptions of their voices after the first introduction of a person. Is this something you commonly do in your writing? What made you decide to add these descriptions for this specific story?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Yes, I try to bring my interviews to life so the reader can better connect to them. I recognize that, sometimes when I do, it could border on editorialization so I am careful not to use descriptors that one could feel are judgmental. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We don’t know if our conversations are being monitored, but I do know Tamara lives in a tiny Soviet-style apartment building in Kharkiv, and I mean tiny,” says Neaman. The Russians have either targeted civilian housing or simply fire off missiles randomly that have hit and destroyed hundreds of apartments. Neaman wonders if one of those apartment buildings is Tamara’s.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> It has been over a year since your story was published. Is Tamara still okay?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> As far as I know (as of 3 months ago), she is still alive and well. So is Volodomyr. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It’s like you are watching a horror movie,” Tymoshenko says on our Zoom call. “It’s impossible to imagine that all these horrors are happening to your city.” She has a jolly laugh and answers my questions at length through a translator. There’s no question she would be the life of any party, but war has hardened her resolve and exposed a defiant trait that keeps her focused.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tymoshenko puts her 20 years of experience as a social worker into practice every day in Kharkiv. She darts from one bombed-out neighborhood to another delivering medical supplies, helping homeless families resettle or evacuate, and dispensing a sort of psychological triage to hundreds of anguished residents. She says she’ll carry stories of individual tragedies forever. Adding to her burden is constant concern for her son, who enlisted in the Ukrainian Army immediately after the invasion.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> “Dispensing a sort of psychological triage to hundreds of anguished residents” is an especially beautiful phrase. How do the words come to you as you write?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> It’s hard to say how the words come to me, but this story touched me deeply and maybe that unlocks a part of your brain (the side that controls empathy?) where those words are stored. Sometimes I struggle to find exactly the right phraseology; sometimes it just comes. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On the call, Tymoshenko sits to the side of a Ukrainian flag mounted on the wall. There are bold Cyrillic letters imprinted across the flag’s lower half that read, she says, “We are from Kharkiv. We are processing the invaders into fertilizer.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sister city partnerships were established during the Cold War when President Dwight Eisenhower envisioned a citizen-to-citizen exchange program to form economic, cultural, and personal bonds among the world’s peoples. It took 32 years and the leadership of then-Mayor Charlie Luken for Cincinnati to score its first partnership, twinning with Liuzou, China, and Gifu, Japan. Kharkiv joined a year later in 1989; back then it was a city in the old Soviet Union, and it was known as Kharkov. Today, Cincinnati has nine sister cities: Liuzou, Gifu, Kharkiv, Nancy (France), New Taipei City (Taiwan), Harare (Zimbabwe), Mysore (India), Amman (Jordan), and perhaps our most famous partner, Munich.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city but shares similar traits with Cincinnati. It’s home to a large public university and Freedom Square, a gigantic downtown plaza that would dwarf Fountain Square. We buy our fresh produce at Findlay Market while Kharkivites shop at Tsentralniy Market. There are several major hospitals and an impressive music hall. We have Washington Park; Kharkiv citizens stroll the leafy gardens of Shevchenko Park. North of the city, Maxim Gorky Central Park might remind you of a mash-up of Mt. Airy Forest and Coney Island. Like Cincinnati, two rivers flow through Kharkiv (the Lopan and the Udy), although they’re more like the Licking than the mighty Ohio.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> What resources did you use for the map of Kharkiv in this paragraph? Did you consult maps, satellite images, photos?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bob Herring, who runs the Sister Cities program, provided me with a detailed map and I sat with him for more than a half hour going over it. I also did a fair amount of internet research on each of these Kharkiv sites mentioned in the paragraph.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“There was an energy there, especially among the young people,” Neaman says of her four trips to Kharkiv. “There was a sense of pride and mission that was palpable. They were very optimistic about the future.” Left unsaid, but written all over her face, is that memory now sullied by bombs and bullets.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is such an interesting quote. Do you remember the question you asked to get this reaction and answer? Was this question predetermined or was it a follow up question? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I don’t remember the precise question, but the context is that we were discussing the school-to-school contact that was occurring between Cincinnati and Kharkiv pre-war and hopes that Susan and Bob had about it resuming after the war ended.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nearly every block of our sister city and its surrounding villages has been punished by artillery, rockets, mortar barrages, and bombs dropped from the sky. Freedom Square is a cratered moonscape, while their music hall, opera house, museums, and government building lie in ruins. Apartment buildings, their facades peeled away, expose the ruin of thousands of lives. The air raid siren has become almost background noise since the invasion began. Even after the Ukrainian Army pushed the Russians back to their border in May, the invaders continued to pour death into the city. Shelling picked up again in June.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s easy to see why Kharkiv is still in danger. The city lies just 25 miles south of the Russian border, about as close as the Monroe Outlets are from downtown Cincinnati. When the war began, Kharkiv absorbed an artillery shellacking as Russian soldiers drove across the frontier. Ukrainian defenders dug in at the top of the highway loop that circles the city and halted the Russian advance.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Think of it this way,” says Herring. “If you lived in Fairfield, Hamilton, West Chester, or Loveland, you were in occupied territory. The front line was I-275.” But no one was spared artillery fire, especially when the Russians were able to move their big guns forward as the infantry advanced. Even Kharkiv’s southern suburbs, like Merefa, where Tymoshenko lives, were shelled. If the war were here, that would put Florence and CVG airport under the guns.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This analogy is incredibly powerful and, I think, essential for Cincinnati readers to understand the gravity of the situation for the people of Kharkiv. Do you intentionally ask for analogies in reporting? Do you remember how this came up?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This discussion came as a result of Bob and I pouring over the map of Kharkiv. He showed me how far the Russians had advanced and I used the legend to figure out how close the front was to the center city. When I pointed out the mileage and said my hometown of Loveland would have been occupied territory, he gave me this quote. This was an absolutely “must have” graf for this story for the reasons you mentioned.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Herring thinks back a few years to happier times when a group of fresh-faced young men from Kharkiv wanted to start a baseball team. “They did this on their own,” he says. “They wanted to play the great American pastime in a country where there were only soccer fields and no balls, bats, or gloves.” The men appealed to Cincinnati for help, and it came.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Sister City Partnership contacted the Reds, Knothole Baseball, and the Cincinnati Recreation Commission to obtain equipment and then began considering a program that would bring these men to Cincinnati to watch and play baseball at all levels—professional, college, high school, and Knothole. Unfortunately, Herring laments, the trip fell through when the U.S. government denied the men visas, worrying they might not return to their homes. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> This is such a fascinating and heartwarming detail. Did you already know that Cincinnati sent baseball equipment, or how did this topic come up in the interviews?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I did not know this piece of Kharkiv-Cincinnati history and was so glad to include it in my story. Bob brought it up and had several photos. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Still, they were able to organize a game in Gorky Park, and the mayor of Kharkiv came to watch.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“The Sister City Summer Classic is still my dream when this is over,” says Herring. “A team from Kharkiv comes here one year, and a team from Cincinnati goes to Kharkiv the next.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He and I look at the photos of the smiling boys in American baseball gear and wonder: They are all of military age. What horrors have they experienced? What’s happened to their homes and families? Are they even alive?</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is kids who are central to the heart of Herring’s passion for Kharkiv. In the early 1990s, a delegation from Kharkiv that included the vice principal from Kharkiv School No. 3 visited Cincinnati and spent three days at Nativity, where Herring had created a global education program. “Yuri Golb was the vice principal from Kharkiv, and he visited every classroom during those three days,” Herring recalls. “We developed a real friendship and began talking about an exchange program.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Herring wasn’t involved in the Sister Cities program at the time, but he was hooked after the visit and soon found himself in Kharkiv, staying in the home of School No. 3 teacher Iryna Bakumenko, who went on to become president of Kharkiv’s sister city program. Iryna has fled to England, and Herring wonders if the exchange program will ever be revived.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The outbreak of hostilities also ended, at least temporarily, a potential exchange program among Cincinnati’s and Kharkiv’s suburbs. Herring says he hopes Denys Tkackov will eventually be able to come to Cincinnati to continue his government-to-government outreach with some of our suburbs. He was scheduled to visit in early March to study how some of our jurisdictions share costs and responsibilities such as fire protection. Tkackov and his family have now fled to France.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It was 4 a.m. on invasion Thursday when Bulba awakened to a loud buzzing noise as a nearby explosion rattled his house. Rockets likely launched from nearby Belgorod, Russia, were flying overhead, and the black sky was alight. His children and others who live nearby ran to his home, which has a basement. “Everyone brought their pillows,” Bulba remembers, “and the little ones all thought it was a big game. The women were crying, of course, but the kids, at least the young ones, were excited.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is such a detailed scene based on memory. Can you talk about how you get sources to share such vivid details from memory?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Remember — this interview took place just two months (to the day) after the Russian attack. So, it was very vivid in Volodomyr’s mind. He was still enraged, but even though my interview with him and Polina was just an hour or so after the latest missile attack, neither appeared to be afraid. I specifically asked him the question about the initial attack. He had no problems sharing it. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #c2e0f4; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He would see that same juxtaposition of fear and excitement days later as he passed out medical supplies and words of encouragement to women and children huddled underground in Kharkiv’s subway tunnels. Those supplies have a direct connection to Cincinnati. “I get very emotional when I talk about it,” Bulba says softly. The lighting is muted on our Zoom call, but he’s clearly fighting back tears. “Literally, just a few hours after the tragedy began, my friends in Cincinnati contacted us and asked what they could do to help. I realized they cared and we weren’t alone.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> This paragraph has but one of the instances where you take readers outside of Kharkiv and Cincinnati, and place them in the conversation you had with your sources. Is there something specific that informs these decisions?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I felt it was important, by this stage of the story, to reclaim the Sister City story. I could have written several more grafs on the war itself — they had some harrowing stories — but the point of this story and the reason </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Magazine</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> wanted to print it — was to show that special relationship. Volodomyr’s stated gratitude was a way of bringing the story back plus delving into what he was doing on the ground.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bulba is a man with connections and, like Tymoshenko, a whirlwind of action. Within days of the war starting, he helped create the School of Courage, a volunteer organization dedicated to helping thousands of displaced Kharkivites with the delivery of products essential to life. Tymoshenko, a former student of his, is one of many courageous drivers. Food, bottled water, medicines, and personal hygiene products were at the top of Bulba’s wish list, and when he forwarded those needs to his Cincinnati connections, Herring, Neaman, and the rest of the Sister City Partnership got to work.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A three-week-long web-based and word-of-mouth fund-raiser in late March and early April netted $100,000, all of it from individual donations. The Cincinnati group wire-transferred the funds to the Red Cross Kharkiv, which purchased supplies that the School of Courage helped to deliver.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That was closely followed by a separate effort from the Procter & Gamble Alumni Group that raised nearly $300,000 over Easter weekend from its expansive membership. Kathleen Dillon Carroll, a marketing expert and P&G alumna, credits John and Frances Pepper for jump-starting the P&G effort by providing $50,000 in matching funds. Those funds were earmarked for a SpotFund fund-raising campaign called </span><a href="https://www.spotfund.com/story/ba50d4dc-e126-4a38-9535-d8e867a8ff97?SFID=missiontoukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mission to Ukraine</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and used to purchase a variety of desperately needed medical and personal supplies, as well as power generators to keep the hospitals running.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How are Cincinnati’s efforts to deliver and coordinate aids to Kharkiv faring now?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There have been fundraisers such as a “virtual hike”, one connected with the Flying Pig, a benefit concert, and even a formal organization — Cincy4Ukraine — was formed. Bob took a Cincinnati city councilmember to Kyiv a few weeks ago to sign a new Sister Cities agreement with Kharkiv (the old one had expired). So the efforts are ongoing.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Music students at Walnut Hills High School hurriedly organized a benefit concert, and Northern Kentucky University sponsored an event featuring two world-renowned Ukrainian pianists, both NKU graduates. Cincinnati Chefs for Ukraine hosted a massive pierogi party at the OTR StillHouse.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bulba holds up a piece of paper printed with the Cincinnati-Kharkiv sister city logo. “This is the heart of Ukraine and the symbol of the helping hand of Cincinnati,” he says. “Your funds have helped so many people with medicines. We have been able also to purchase generators, rescue equipment, and tools to help us clear the rubble in our streets. We would never have imagined this could happen.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s been months since the Russian invasion began, and yet the brutality of war continues. Cincinnati was all in from the beginning. The questions now are: What’s next? Where will home be?</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We have reached out to the Biden administration and let them know that Cincinnati would be proud to provide a home for Ukrainian refugees,” says Mayor Aftab Pureval. “It’s out of our hands for now, but we’ve been working with Catholic Charities to be ready.” The U.S. has committed to accepting up to 100,000 displaced Ukrainians.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Did you ever look into how many displaced Ukrainians were able to take refuge in the U.S.?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">According to the Department of Homeland Security (an NBC report), as of February 24, 2023, more than 271,000 Ukrainian refugees were resettled in the US. I know of a few that have resettled here (one founded the Cincy4Ukraine organization mentioned above) but I haven’t done a follow-up.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Neaman hopes to be among the first in line. She’s housed three sets of Kharkivites in the past and desperately wants to bring her friend, Viktoria Marinuk, and her 13-year-old daughter, Irina, to Cincinnati for resettlement. Viktoria, who taught English to young adults in Kharkiv before the war, fled to Slovakia, where she now works with mental health professionals tending to traumatized Ukrainian refugees. Getting Viktoria and Irina here will involve a lot of paperwork, vetting, and approval by the American Embassy in Bratislava and a pledge by Neaman to financially support them once here. It will likely be a slow process.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Many of Cincinnati’s sister city friends have, in fact, fled the war zone. Most are women and children—males between 18 and 60, with some exceptions, can’t leave—and they’ve relocated to England, France, Germany, Poland, and other European nations where they’re trying to rebuild their lives. Some, like Tymoshenko and Bulba, remain in immediate peril, doing what they can to keep themselves, their families, and their neighbors alive. Others have stayed in-country but moved to central or western Ukraine, out of the reach of Russia’s guns.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Will they come back to Kharkiv? Can they come back and, if they do, to what?” Herring asks rhetorically. If they do, he hopes the Sister City Partnership will be there to help rebuild. What Kharkiv will need and when is unknown and, assuming the city remains Ukrainian territory, the job of rebuilding will require a lot more than what Cincinnati alone can provide.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati’s sister city leadership team clearly has the contacts in Kharkiv. They have a love for the city and its people and, most importantly, their trust. Cincinnati, says Herring, has strong companies with skilled people and vital equipment that can make a difference. Maybe when the dust clears and the enemy has been expelled, they can help bring Kharkiv back to life.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It was a beautiful city, and it’s been ruined,” Herring laments. “I know it’s not possible now, but I am dreaming about what we can do to help them rebuild.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It’ll be a while,” Neaman says sadly. Herring gives a quick nod. He knows.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The story ends on an extremely ambiguous and cautiously, even uncertainly, hopeful note. Why did you choose to end it like this?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Because it is ambiguous and uncertain as to what the final chapter will hold. It’s a sad story of a ruined country full of ruined lives. At the time of the interview, the US was fully supportive but now? It’s hard to say but it’s now a war eclipsed by another and both are tied to our domestic politics. If anything, it’s more ambiguous and uncertain than it was when I wrote this.</span></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div>CincySPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046311500087154077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-29324017976409130832024-02-06T14:58:00.000-08:002024-02-09T12:39:26.836-08:00Scott Springer Went Beyond the Highlight Reel to Share a Story of an Athletic Legacy and Grief<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Emmanuelle Hewson and Sydney Bellm</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-529aaebf-7fff-8abc-afec-d37254497c9c"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 2pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This story is a part of the Cincinnati’s Storytelling of Journalism project, which represents a collaboration between</span><a href="https://nku.edu/academics/informatics/programs/undergraduate/journalism.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Northern Kentucky University (NKU) journalism students</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the NKU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and the</span><a href="http://cincyspj.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students interviewed professional journalist winners and finalists from the Greater Cincinnati SPJ Chapter’s </span><a href="https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2023/06/winners-and-finalists-announced-greater.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to create these</span><a href="https://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/annotation-tuesday/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nieman Storyboard Annotations</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-inspired Q&As and story annotations that analyze and celebrate our region’s award-winning works of journalism.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Award: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sports Feature Reporting</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Journalist: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Scott Springer, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Cincinnati Enquirer</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Story:</span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Feducation%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fmadison-schools-shooting-4-years-later-some-wounds-never-heal%2F4874636002%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cdaymi%40nku.edu%7C43f74b9c64534aa124bc08d9a5eb452c%7Cac3218551f554d0bb2fa531085ca3022%7C0%7C0%7C637723253200151479%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=DcbpCKtruLGOhjfVabY41Ic98LLXkXENYb3URl1Oonk%3D&reserved=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2021/10/04/pacman-jones-tutors-ex-bengal-chris-henry-sons-chris-jr-demarcus-withrow/5909668001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ex-Bengal Chris Henry's sons walk, look like him. Even better, they play football like him</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Student interviewers:</b> Andrew Bellamah, Sydney Bellm, Trey Egan and Emmanuelle Hewson</span><div> <span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Scott Springer felt as though he had seen a ghost when observing DeMarcus and Chris Henry Jr. on Withrow Junior High’s football field in 2021. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With similar looks and incredible talent, the resemblance to their father, former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry Sr., was both uncanny and undeniable. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Springer was working alongside a freelance photographer at the time who was involved with Cincinnati Metro Athletic Conference—a league made up of inner city schools’ athletic teams. Withrow Middle and High School both fall into that league, and the photographer notified Springer of the boys' attendance.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">So Springer looked further into the matter. He found that Adam “Pacman” Jones, a former teammate and friend of Chris Henry Sr.'s, had become a legal guardian of the Henry children after Chris Henry Sr. tragically passed away in 2009—when DeMarcus and Chris Jr. were just months old.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Springer knew this was a story, and he wanted it to be about the kids rather than their family history. He did his best to avoid any controversy around Jones and Henry Sr. or focusing on the tragedy of Henry Sr.’s passing.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“When the newspaper caught wind of the story, they wanted to make a big deal of it,” Springer said. “We had a bunch of meetings with a storytelling coach, and typically I just write a story and that’s that.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyrQ_DRUD_5OZxkklQZedgD51MePJ9Fq3pjSKSGuB4PWhwZeIO93VTqpcOaloVnxlosc8gSprZ3Hcf_Pha85xT5NDJHYXdYAcToWjH3E3OnxYwyuEWtnobLTB5YzOjwYq0LMrN80Vc8aPKPbvf4NA4jtgROzmsU16GCpp3CoRmDYDCpEQAipWQEdMXW6vN/s800/Scott22hat.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="800" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyrQ_DRUD_5OZxkklQZedgD51MePJ9Fq3pjSKSGuB4PWhwZeIO93VTqpcOaloVnxlosc8gSprZ3Hcf_Pha85xT5NDJHYXdYAcToWjH3E3OnxYwyuEWtnobLTB5YzOjwYq0LMrN80Vc8aPKPbvf4NA4jtgROzmsU16GCpp3CoRmDYDCpEQAipWQEdMXW6vN/s320/Scott22hat.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Scott Springer</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">However, that wasn’t the case this time around. </span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“This one involved meetings,” Springer added, “and there were a lot of phases to it.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Springer typically reports on University of Cincinnati sports for the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Enquirer,</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> but he ended up winning the best feature story award from Cincinnati SPJ for this coverage connected to high school sports and the Cincinnati Bengals.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“These are known kids, they’re very good and people are going to find out,” Springer said. “You’re better off having me do it rather than someone else that’s going to come in and do it.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NKU students Sydney Bellm, Emmanuelle Hewson, Andrew Bellamah and Trey Egan asked Springer about his interview techniques, advice for covering stories of loss and how this story differs from the rest of his work.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What types of interview questions did you ask the family for this story?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I asked the grandmother, “How does this make you feel?” because here’s somebody that lost a son. It's kind of eerie because this kid looks just like his dad, and that’s the first thing she said, “That’s Chris Henry’s baby there.” I think Chris Sr. was an organ donor and helped a handful of people and she had met some of the people that got his organs. In her case, it was just, “Tell me how happy you are.” You went through something about as devastating as a mother could go through but now you’re getting to watch your two grandsons. They’re excelling and they’re on their way. That was kind of fun.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With Pacman, I didn’t want to ask anything that was going to set him off to where he’d say, “Alright, stop. No interview.” I got out what we needed to get out. I allowed him to talk about what he was doing, which he is an expert in. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eventually, I was able to talk to him [Chris Henry Jr.] as he moved up to West Clermont. I know I did a video somewhere with him—very nice. I didn’t talk to the younger one, but I have talked to the older sister. I was really worried about the presentation of the past facts of their family and the mother emailed me and thanked me for the story. That reassured me that we didn’t go too far because I didn’t want to bring up all this bad stuff that had happened in the past, but again, you had to because that was part of it. She obviously had no complaint about it and was kind enough to find me and email me because I didn’t even have her number.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What kind of advice do you have for other journalists when interviewing the loved ones of someone that’s passed?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Try to put yourself in their shoes if you can. Nobody can actually do that, but just try to be sensitive about it and apologetic. I try not to be pushy. If they don’t want to talk, I’ll tell them “Tell me what you want to tell me,” and if you don’t want to talk, I understand. If you do, I’d love for you to talk to me. First and foremost, I want you to be comfortable with it so I’m not going to make anybody say anything they don’t want to say. It’s a tightrope you walk, and it’s not fun. I mean, I’ve had to talk to parents that lost children that were athletes, I can give you a handful of examples. I think of them almost every day and I can't imagine losing a kid. There’s sad things that happen every so often and you don’t really get into sports to cover those things, but sometimes you have to. Life has peaks and valleys, and the peaks are a little more fun to cover than the valleys.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How did this story differ from the rest of your work?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It differed because it was more of a story. At that time, I was covering more high school sports and some of that stuff gets to be kind of assembly line—you’re just covering a game. Hey, well, you gave it 110%, we played well, played better than them, we won—there’s the story. You’re always looking to find something interesting in everything that you do, but this had some drama, background, history to it. You had a famous former Bengal, another former Bengal with these kids—it had a lot of things that would bring people in to listen and read it, and they did.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How often would you say the sort of non-game coverage stories come up in your sports beat?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I mean, not weekly, but maybe every two or three months something happens. I am working on a story right now, which is not necessarily tragic, but it's unfortunate. The University of Cincinnati basketball team that I cover has two players that are two-time transfers. They both claimed under NCAA guidelines, a mental health waiver, and they met all of the claims so transferred for the second time. They saw professional psychiatrists, psychologists, and as I said, met all the waiver claims. But the NCAA is saying that they cannot play. So the University of Cincinnati has now got some attorneys involved, and are going back and forth with the NCAA. UC is arguing, why do you have these guidelines that say, if you meet this criteria, and you're having a mental health issue, that you can transfer for the second time. But then wipe that and say they cannot play.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Both of the kids I saw play last year. One was at Temple and one was at Utah Valley. The one from Utah Valley is from Senegal and I don’t know if you’ve been to Utah? There aren’t a whole lot of people from Senegal there. Cincinnati doesn't have a huge population from Senegal, but he felt more at home here. Cincinnati also has great medical facilities right on our doorstep. You go back to the Cincinnati–Buffalo game and Damar Hamlin. If he wasn’t near that trauma center, he wouldn’t have made it. He was very fortunate that just where Paycor stadium is, UC medical is right there. So in the same respect. They also have mental health facilities. So part of the reason for selecting Cincinnati was this.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2021/10/04/pacman-jones-tutors-ex-bengal-chris-henry-sons-chris-jr-demarcus-withrow/5909668001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ex-Bengal Chris Henry's sons walk, look like him. Even better, they play football like him</span></a></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Scott Springer, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Enquirer</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HYDE PARK - Look closely. The Withrow Junior High School Tigers are on the field and pretty much having their way with any and all opponents. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On either side of the offensive line, two young wide receivers stand ready to catch any pass that comes their way.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If you know football, they look very promising. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If you've been around Cincinnati a while, they may even look familiar.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They are No. 1 and No. 5, known by friends and family as Man-Man and Bubba. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They are the two sons that Bengal wide receiver Chris Henry, who wore No. 15 and died tragically at 26, left fatherless as babies. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When and how did you settle on the story's opening and structure? Did you link it to the title?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #ea9999; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That came about in the editing process and speaking with five or six others on staff on a Zoom. Where a sportswriter can become robotic due to the volume of material we spit out, this deserved a different start. At the time, the Enquirer storytelling coach was Amy Wilson who helped craft this to explain the uniqueness of the story for those that might not be familiar with Chris Henry Sr. I recall debating on using “left fatherless at babies,” but she was adamant on including the harsh reality of what happened. For someone who didn’t know the past, it was a key element and factual, so it wasn’t a long disagreement. I just kept the emotions of the kids in mind and as the father of four sons, I tried to not hammer home the unfortunate decisions of their dad. As you can see by the title, it does sum it up in a few sentences.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fatherless, but not alone. Because in Henry's stead, another familiar face came to their rescue, to be the dad and mentor Henry could not.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As he told NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe on Sharpe's podcast in early September, equally familiar Bengal Adam "Pacman" Jones is the Henry boys' adoptive father now.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They call him Uncle Pac. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Did Jones go into depth about the personal toll of losing his friend and becoming the guardian of his children? If so, why didn’t you choose to mention that here?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> They were college teammates, but he didn’t go into much personal grief over his loss. The family had been living in North Carolina and Jones had been up here. Obviously, he kept in touch with the mother. I think he noticed the skill level of the kids as they grew and figured he could help train and get them in the right places here. On the outside, Pacman is not terribly emotional, but I do think he cares about the kids and wants to do good by his former teammate. He does have kids of his own and some others that live with him. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">'I love those kids to death': Pacman Jones steps in to help family</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Henry would be 38 if he were living today, watching now 14-year-old Chris Jr. ("Man-Man") and 12-year-old DeMarcus ("Bubba") play football. Henry and Loleini Tonga also have a daughter, Seini.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The kids were 3, 2 and 10 months when their father died in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dec. 17, 2009, after falling out of a truck and striking his head during what police later termed a domestic dispute. His season that year had ended early when he broke his left forearm in early November while playing the Baltimore Ravens.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nearly a dozen years later, Chris Jr. is already 6-foot-3-inches and glides smoothly to the ball much as his 6-foot-4-inch father, once a deep threat who complemented Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh on some of Marvin Lewis' best teams.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Chris Jr. cooly corrals balls and, though an eighth-grader, would not be out of place on any varsity team. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If you double-team No. 1, No. 5 DeMarcus can burn you on the other side.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Every game I come, they always make a touchdown," proud grandmother Carolyn Henry Glaspy said. "They're following their Daddy's traits. They just make me happy to be here. No. 1, that's Chris Henry's baby, and No. 5 is right behind him."</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They had a little help there.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jones, the deeply talented cornerback from West Virginia University, was taken in the first round of the 2005 draft by the Tennessee Titans. Henry, who also played for WVU, was drafted in the third round that year by the Bengals. Both had their own trials and tribulations in the NFL. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They were close. They had been roommates.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And, when Henry died, Jones stayed in touch with Henry's children's mother. Jones was a Bengal from 2010-2017 after Henry's passing but has stayed in town. The Henry boys had been coming to town every summer and Jones and Tonga had extended conversations on how he could help them achieve their goals. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Sports-wise, football-wise, we think it's best for the boys," Jones said. "I can push them a little bit more. I've done the things they're trying to do. We have an unbelievable relationship. I love those kids to death. Their mom loves them to death; their grandma loves them to death."</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jones is married with his own kids, but Loleini Tonga is also in town now. Henry's mother, Carolyn, has been in town for more than a decade.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Big cheering section at Withrow Junior High School</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At a recent game against Aiken, plenty of friends and family were at Withrow cheering on Chris Jr. and DeMarcus. Tonga, Glaspy, Pacman, his wife and kids all huddled around the two spitting images of a football talent lost nearly a dozen years ago. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"I think they have the ability sports-wise and grade-wise to be special and play on the next level," Jones said. "And, I'm not talking college. We're family-oriented. They're here in Cincinnati because Uncle Pac's got the recipe to make them be unbelievable as far as sports and education."</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It doesn't come without the work.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jones has them in the gym at 6:30 in the morning before school begins at 7:30 a.m. After school, there's a practice or a game. If not, they're back in the gym.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Their talents are not surprising considering they came from athletic parents (Tonga played volleyball) and that a former NFL defensive back is challenging them on pass routes.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"I don't let them catch the ball," Jones said. "If they catch the ball. they deserve to catch the ball."</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Grinning, Jones admits the taller pair can score a bucket or two on his 5-foot-10-inch frame in basketball.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How much time did you spend with this Pacman Jones?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #ea9999; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I had reached out to him via social media upon hearing of the boys at Withrow and he quickly responded. I tried to explain my intentions and that I’d be coming out to watch them play. In person, I probably spent about an hour and a half that day during the junior high game.Through messaging before and after, maybe another 30 minutes. Again, I had some familiarity with Chris Henry, having covered him as far back as when UC played West Virginia and then during his Bengals time. Same with Pacman. I think being a veteran reporter here helped because I knew of them as players and the backstory as well as recognizing what talents the kids were (and are). </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Bubba (DeMarcus) is left-handed, so he's really kind of tricky with the ball," Jones said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jones sees everything in the kids that he saw in the teammate he knew as "Slim." </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They walk the same; their mannerisms and demeanor are the same. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Why did you choose this wording? </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pacman had spent so much time in college with Chris Sr., that even he was amazed at the similarities. In this sentence, he hadn’t talked about DeMarcus (the younger son) as much and I wanted to include something on him as he’s a good athlete as well. He just doesn’t catch your eye like Chris Jr. as (at the time) he wasn’t as tall and the resemblance isn’t as striking as that of Chris Jr. and Chris Sr.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jones practiced with Chris Sr. every day when they were West Virginia Mountaineers.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"He got me to where I was at," Jones said. "Without Chris, I would not be drafted sixth overall, first defensive player. It's a big family thing. We're just trying to expose them to everything that's possible in a positive way." </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jones said the boys have some memories of their father and have seen plenty of his acrobatic, beautiful pass receptions. He knows No. 15 would be immensely proud of Nos. 1 and 5.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"He got cut short and we didn't get to see everything he had in the tank," Jones said of what could have been. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Young Tigers in orange and black</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"They're the life-blood of the future here at Withrow," Kali Jones, Withrow varsity coach, said while watching the Tigers' junior high game. "They (Henry's sons) are outstanding athletes and outstanding student-athletes."</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By all reports, Carolyn Henry Glaspy's grandsons are doing well in the classroom, too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Their dad would be pleased by that too.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Glaspy's eyes glow when speaking of them. Her son's transplanted organs saved four people whom she has met.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Now she watches her son's sons prosper.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is an interesting fact to add in. Why did you choose to add this near the ending?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I was trying to humanize the story a little more. The initial thought of the death of Chris Henry Sr. is that he was often in trouble and made poor decisions. His mother Carolyn Glaspy, though, was extremely proud and made a point to meet those who benefited from the donations. She also smiles widely when talking about the grandsons because she sees so much of her own son. Basically, it was just a way to show that good can come from bad (though I would always recommend good). </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"I think they're just having an awesome time having fun being kids," Coach Jones said. </span></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div>CincySPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046311500087154077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-90033427299130720572024-02-06T14:57:00.000-08:002024-02-07T09:21:00.514-08:00How Madeline Mitchell Captured the Pandemic’s Impact on Local Students<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Elita St. Clair</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-cb568035-7fff-a83b-3077-fd0048dd71ee"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 2pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This story is a part of the Cincinnati’s Storytelling of Journalism project, which represents a collaboration between</span><a href="https://nku.edu/academics/informatics/programs/undergraduate/journalism.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Northern Kentucky University (NKU) journalism students</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the NKU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and the</span><a href="http://cincyspj.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students interviewed professional journalist winners and finalists from the Greater Cincinnati SPJ Chapter’s </span><a href="https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2023/06/winners-and-finalists-announced-greater.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to create these</span><a href="https://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/annotation-tuesday/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nieman Storyboard Annotations</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-inspired Q&As and story annotations that analyze and celebrate our region’s award-winning works of journalism.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Award: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Education Reporting</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Journalist: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Madeline Mitchell & Amanda Rossmann, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Cincinnati Enquirer</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Story:</span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Feducation%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fmadison-schools-shooting-4-years-later-some-wounds-never-heal%2F4874636002%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cdaymi%40nku.edu%7C43f74b9c64534aa124bc08d9a5eb452c%7Cac3218551f554d0bb2fa531085ca3022%7C0%7C0%7C637723253200151479%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=DcbpCKtruLGOhjfVabY41Ic98LLXkXENYb3URl1Oonk%3D&reserved=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/06/26/first-grade-class-sharpsburg-primary-school-year-in-person-ohio/7613522001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We spent a year with first-graders. Here's how school has changed after the pandemic</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Student interviewers:</b> Bennett Shannon, Elita St. Clair and Andrea Turner </span><span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She didn’t know what the story was going to be about. She didn’t know how long it would take her or what the finished story would look like, but Madeline Mitchell, educational reporter for the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Enquirer</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, was determined to follow her curiosity. “I had a question,” Mitchell said. “The question was: How has Covid impacted these kids?” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A yearlong journey of observing, reporting and writing followed. Mitchell, along with photographer Amanda Rossman, produced an intriguing story showcasing not only the answer to Mitchell’s question regarding Covid’s impact of post-pandemic education but provided a window to view the educational world of a first-grade classroom.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The story, titled “</span><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/06/26/first-grade-class-sharpsburg-primary-school-year-in-person-ohio/7613522001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We spent a year with first-graders. Here's how school has changed after the pandemic</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,” offers a long-form story full of nuance and context. The story follows a first-grade classroom at Sharpsburg Primary School in Norwood throughout the year, observing the six-year-old students and their teacher, Karen Eads, as they learned to navigate in-person learning for the first time since Covid-19.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mitchell wanted a new perspective on Covid’s effect on students' learning and she found her viewpoint within this story. As the academic beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer since 2021, Mitchell had spent the year before writing stories telling people what the experts were saying about Covid’s effects on learning environments and now she wanted the opportunity to show what was happening currently in educational classrooms post-pandemic.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHDJZwUPYfLQUSOUB0VTHK8Yif5tP_Kf7dm0CD_caVS4nxGNmUFTjWiaGKGlP4uAzLeou_sSGuCIuA50Dh_f3n1ItSPlLE1g-KlSC0wzBpsIPZMfJgaxZimfn_-GZe9ZUNe-BRZJgy8HDgJSTGu8D41O7ZbsMZndwHX_DAFNbiovELRHd7aHkGtDBOyRy/s1086/madelinemitchellheadshot.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1086" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHDJZwUPYfLQUSOUB0VTHK8Yif5tP_Kf7dm0CD_caVS4nxGNmUFTjWiaGKGlP4uAzLeou_sSGuCIuA50Dh_f3n1ItSPlLE1g-KlSC0wzBpsIPZMfJgaxZimfn_-GZe9ZUNe-BRZJgy8HDgJSTGu8D41O7ZbsMZndwHX_DAFNbiovELRHd7aHkGtDBOyRy/w320-h213/madelinemitchellheadshot.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Madeline Mitchell</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mitchell and Rossmann scheduled visits to the school on a regular basis, watching the class progress over time and understanding the children and their teacher more and more. Mitchell found this to be her favorite story that she has ever written because she enjoyed the times she spent observing and watching the classroom and interacting with the children.</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mitchell utilized vivid details and showcased treasured moments from the year-long observation period. “It didn't feel like I was just debunking myths about education,” Mitchell said. “I was just there to show people what's really going on.”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NKU students Elita St. Clair, Andrea Turner and Bennett Shannon interviewed Mitchell about her approach to this story, her experience reporting and advice on capturing details for longform content. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Why did you choose to write this particular story?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This was a really cool opportunity for me to get to know one classroom, in one school, and shine this light on individuals. While a lot of what I do is big trend pieces where I survey all 65 public school districts and get a bird’s eye view, I loved being able to narrow this scope and show people what is happening to these kids. At the same time, I think in doing that, you are showing a trend and you are explaining this wider phenomenon. So we’re talking about, ‘How are kids, in general, impacted by the pandemic?’ There are so many ways to do that and I had been doing it on this larger scale for over a year. I think it was really beneficial for me, but also for our readers, too, to get that smaller scope and really narrow in on this set of students.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As you captured these different moments and details with the kids, was there anything in particular you were looking for? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I don’t think so because, again, I didn’t really go into it thinking I wanted to get X,Y and Z moments. As a reporter, sometimes you see something and you're like, ‘that's my lede,’ or, ‘that’s the hook that I’m wanting.’ There were definitely moments like that throughout the year. I think there are two moments that come to mind.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One of them was, I think, Elizabeth, the redhead, when she went up to another student on the playground and said the full sentence, ‘do you want to be my friend today? Let's play together.’ It was so perfect because we had just been in the class the week prior where the teacher was teaching them how to make friends, and then there she was and she said it in a full sentence like, ‘I’m going to make a friend right now.’ It was just such a perfect moment, and I was like, ‘there it is. That's a quote that I want to use.’</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The other one was around Christmas time when one of the students didn't have money for the Penguin Patch and he was so upset, and just watching that moment between him and his teacher, when he was beside himself crying and was so embarrassed that he didn't have money with him. Then she gave him like two dollars or something to buy something with. That was another moment that Amanda the photographer and I looked at each other and we were like, ‘this is what it means to be a teacher.’ It’s not always about academics; it's not always about reading and writing. Sometimes it's just making sure the kid is happy and healthy and feels included.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">How did writing the story and observing the kids make you feel as a journalist?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is my favorite story that I have ever done just because it made you feel good; every time I was in that classroom, it was just fun. I mean I do a lot of reporting on the culture wars and political stuff that's going on in schools. I get really tired of that sometimes and I think it's important to show what's really happening in a classroom. There's all the speculation and all the talk about sex and diversity and racism and stuff like that, so talking about what's really happening and how kids are really being impacted felt good, and also it’s just fun. If you've never been in a room with six-year-olds as an adult, I highly recommend it. The first time that we went, the kids had just done some sort of group project or something or had been talked to about how to make any guest that comes to the classroom feel good. So before we left on that first day, in a chorus of these first graders, they all looked up at Amanda and I and said, ‘you are loved, you are important,’ and I got emotional. I didn't even know that I needed to hear that today, but this was perfect so it just felt really good and felt important. It didn't feel like I was just debunking myths about education. I was just there to show people what's really going on. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What advice would you give to someone doing a long-form type story to capture engaging details and stories within an environment?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think it's really instinct. I think that you know in the moment when something is really compelling. I always take notes about everything, write everything down. The other way you can do it is a voice memo and this isn't just for this story, but for any story, even if you are doing a story that is from a council meeting or from an event. Call up your significant other, a friend, your mom and what do you tell them in two minutes? You just had a three-hour long meeting and now you’re like, ‘oh my gosh this is the thing that happened that was so crazy.’ Whatever stands out to you and that you would summarize in a two-minute phone call or journaling for five minutes after you go. I think that that is the most important thing that you can take away. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/06/26/first-grade-class-sharpsburg-primary-school-year-in-person-ohio/7613522001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We spent a year with first-graders. Here's how school has changed after the pandemic</span></a></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Madeline Mitchell, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Enquirer</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The words “my name is” followed by a blank space tops the assignment centered on 20 first-graders' desks in Karen Eads’ Norwood classroom.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s the third day of school, and for some students, their third day ever being at school, in person. The desks are separated by clear plastic barriers, and Eads and her students all wear masks. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s a valuable skill, learning to write one’s name. It’s something you will do thousands of times in life. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">But all that seems far away to Kindall Boyle, a 6-year-old with long, blond hair and bright eyes. She’s shy despite her lively wardrobe of big bows, sequins and sparkles. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Kindall writes her first name in pencil. Her mom taught her how to do that, she says. Her mom taught her how to write all the letters of the alphabet. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Toward the back of the room, Osmar Rodriguez uses a broken half of a gray crayon to write his name slowly and carefully, using all capital letters. The Apple Watch on his wrist makes his tiny hand look even tinier. His mom helped teach him how to write his name, too, he says. Then he stops. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“My favorite color is red,” he explains, finding a new red crayon in his bag before he continues with the worksheet. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One of the chattier students, Nayr Houston, sits up front. She has multicolored beads in her hair. A single “N” is written in the blank where her first name should be, but she is already drawing faces in the white space below. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The first face she drew was a mistake, she says, so she starts over in the lower left-hand corner of the page. She erases a smile and draws an upside-down curve in its place, to show what “bored” looks like. That’s the emotion Eads is teaching about today. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 12pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What prompted your choice to use the illustration of name tags to start this story? Did you know that was significant when it happened?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think name tags on an assignment instantly bring us back to elementary school. It’s one of the first things we learn how to do as students. I remember teachers telling us as kids that we’d get points off for forgetting to write our name on top of an assignment. So I thought that was a good opener for the story, to take people back to that feeling of being in school. And I did find it significant on that day, when I noticed some kids knew how to write their name while others didn’t. That was the first clue we had that kids in Ms. Eads’ class were coming to her from all different skill levels. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Follow me with your eyes wherever I go,” Eads tells the class through her microphone, which helps students hear her despite her mask. She crouches down low, walks to the front of the class and zigzags around the room trying to establish listening and focusing skills. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Short exercises like this give students practice in following directions, she says. And many of the kids in her class, who have never been to in-person school before, need all the practice they can get. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Start of the School Year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 12pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What directed your use of a timeline throughout this story’s organization? Did you know you would use that structure from the beginning or were there other structures you considered?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We didn’t know how we’d structure the story when we started reporting. That said, it became clear early on that going in chronological order would make the most sense, especially since the goal was to illustrate student progress over the course of the school year. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is Eads’ 33rd year teaching elementary students. It’s her first time back to in-person learning since the pandemic. She taught virtually for the 2020-21 school year. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads says she’s already noticed signs of learning loss in the first three days of school. There are students who don’t know how to use scissors or glue. Some kids have never really been around other children before, she says, and don't know how to say what they mean. Her top priorities to start the year are teaching her first graders how to take turns, respect each other and build a safe community. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“They’re adapting so well,” she says. “Children are so resilient.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She hopes she’s resilient, too, after the nightmare of virtual learning when parents yelled at her over Zoom and she watched from her basement office as her students struggled. She longed to hug them and cried when she had to settle for front porch waves. She couldn’t be the teacher she wanted to be last year, the teacher she is. The kind of teacher with three decades of experience, who knows that before delving into reading, math or science kids first need to feel safe, loved and valued. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some of the kids in her room this year don’t feel those things yet. But they will. The student living in a shelter, the one who takes beach vacations, a kid who hasn’t spoken yet, a child terrified of adults, the boy with the Apple Watch. They all need something different from Eads, and she’s ready to give them everything she has. Because this is her calling. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s a new year with new kids. A fresh start. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Second Week</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One week later, stuffed bunnies, dragons, bears, birds and other creatures are on display near Eads’ classroom door. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Spirit Owens, sitting just a couple feet from the toys, is having trouble containing her excitement. It takes all her focus not to get up and run for the purple monkey. Other kids in the class harbor the same energy, but Eads expects everyone to wait their turn. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is one of her favorite traditions, Eads says. She started it years ago when she realized not every student has a parent to read with at night. No one should have to read alone, she says, so each child in her room gets a stuffed “reading buddy” to take home. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I did this because I love you,” Eads tells her class. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She means it. Eads has spent hundreds, if not thousands, of her own money on classroom supplies over the years. She goes to football, soccer and baseball games when she can, and visits students at their homes sometimes. Norwood is a “pretty tight knit community,” she says, and Eads is proud to be part of it. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I grew up here. I was one of them,” Eads says later, adding that she was a “transient kid” who grew up in a broken home. “I'm a success story, and I think that's why I want them to be success stories.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">From his desk, Daniel Herrmann cranes his neck to see the reading buddy options and all the books there are to choose from. Eads says it’s OK if they can’t read the words. They can always read the pictures. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“This,” says Daniel, “is the best day ever." </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sharing a story is a sacred experience for Eads. She’s mastered character voices and her class library is made up of books she read to her own two kids, both of whom are grownups now. Those beloved books are old and worn from use, but brand new to these students. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Over the years she’s diversified her collection. She wants her students to see themselves in the stories, whether they be Black, white, Latino or Asian. It helps kids become better readers and more invested in learning, she says. She feels lucky that the critical race culture war has yet to find its way to Norwood City Schools. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">But with education as the battleground for political debate and school threats discussed daily on the news, her guard is up. She removed a book where a character holds a pride flag from her library because she “didn’t want to tackle that this year.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is an interesting observation. Did you decide to ask further questions as to why this is?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Yes, we talked about this further with Ms. Eads but kept the nitty-gritty out of the story because that’s not really what the piece is about. I think it made sense to acknowledge broader trends and fears in education, but again, we wanted to focus on student growth. And since the culture wars didn’t infiltrate Norwood schools much during our reporting, it didn’t make sense to draw out this section any further.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I get very emotionally upset about it,” Eads says. She told her husband, also a teacher, “if we finish our careers without a shooting in our districts, I’m going to be grateful.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Late September</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads’ students eat lunch with the other first grade class, spaced out on long, red and gray tables in a small multi-purpose room. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s late September and still feels like summer outside. Once they’ve finished eating, most students mask up without thinking about it, getting ready for recess. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Raegan Stacey, a redhead wearing jean shorts and a red T-shirt, approaches a girl with a blue unicorn dress that reads: “born magical.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Hey Elizabeth, want to hang out together?” Raegan asks. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yes!” Elizabeth Stiles yells, jumping up and down. The two hold hands and sprint across the pavement towards the swing set. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It might seem sweet, charming even. But to Eads, the gesture signifies great progress. At the beginning of the year, she says, there were several students who did not know how to make a friend. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“And so we’ve taught them and they’re working on that,” Eads says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On the blacktop outside, Kindall sits with a group playing duck, duck, goose. She’s moving slower than the other kids in the circle, clutching a white paper marked with purple crayon. It reads: “I like you” in Kindall's first-grade handwriting. She says she made it for her mom. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“When she gets home from work,” Kindall says, “I’m gonna give it to her." </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Second Quarter</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After the first round of assessments, the results are in: Eads’ students are low in math and reading skills. Eads says she isn’t surprised, after the last year and a half of learning disruptions. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The children who are below level are “significantly below,” she says, farther behind than students Eads has had in the past. Some of these kids don’t know numbers or how to count. They don’t know letters and the sounds each letter makes. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The constitution of Karen Eads' class hangs on display as a reminder to the students.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“They usually know those kinds of things when they get here.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By mid-October she estimates 40% of her kids still need significant interventions. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads and her colleagues use the testing data to group kids together by their needs. She also taps the intervention team of reading and math specialists, so pairs of students are pulled out of class at times to work on more targeted learning goals. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The kids can tell the wide range of skill levels in the room, too, Eads says. She watches struggling students seek out certain friends who they know could help them. Many mornings, Aubrey Nolan can be found in the back of the classroom helping another student with math. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">While their academics are behind, Eads says this year some of her students are better at working with computers than she is. They’re also better at taking nonverbal cues and doing their homework. But most don’t know how to tie their shoelaces, line up at the door, or raise their hands to ask or answer questions. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads’ job is to give these kids the tools they need to learn. Sometimes that means teaching them how to use physical tools, like pencils and highlighters. Other times it’s correcting them when they mix up letters “b” and “d” or when they write a backwards “5.” That’s the easy part. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The hard part is listening to the problems she can’t fix. The broken oven in a student’s home, who says mice are living in her house. The kid who told her his neighbor was shot in the head in the middle of the night. The shooters took the man’s car and now he’s in critical condition at the hospital. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> These examples really drive home the challenges the students face. How did you gather this information and choose which specific examples to use? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Throughout the school year kids would share with us alarming stories about their lives at home, and of course they shared things with Ms. Eads. I wrote everything down, whether a kid told me themself or through the teacher. In a school where every kid is economically disadvantaged, these stories weren’t hard to collect. I chose the shooting because I could verify it easily through police records. And the broken oven because it illustrates a challenge plenty of students face: hunger. Kids can’t learn if they’re basic needs aren’t met.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At school, Eads makes sure her kids are fed and tells them that they matter. She teaches them how to read. She shows them how to count to 120. She knows from experience that education can lift them out of whatever troubles they face now and into a better life. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Every so often Eads reminds her students to “lean in,” with their bellies touching the table, to show they are ready to learn, as opposed to leaning back or slouching passively. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“If you look, listen and learn, what happens to your brain?” Eads asks the class. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Raegan smiles. She knows this one. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It grows." </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">December</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On a cold December day Eads' kids cross the street to the other Sharpsburg Elementary building, home to second through fifth graders, for a STEM lesson. Marshall Dykes teaches this special unit, with his trusty sidekick Beyonce the python. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">STEM is Spirit’s and Elizabeth’s favorite class. They are partners for today’s assignment, which is to build a rocket ship out of magnetic tiles. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Elizabeth asks Spirit to hold up the rocket ship skeleton while she adds more tiles to their project. Spirit names their rocket ship “Blast Off.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dykes walks around the class with Beyonce resting across his neck and shoulders. He calls up students a couple at a time to pet the snake and hold her if they’d like. He explains how Beyonce’s scales are like fingernails, how she can smell with her tongue and see heat with her eyes. Pythons used to have legs, Dykes says, since snakes were once lizards. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With half of the school year nearly finished, the class knows their numbers and letters, and most are beginning to read complete sentences. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Most importantly to Eads, they are comfortable with her and with each other. They’ve formed friendships and use their imagination every day. They’re curious always and kind most of the time. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Kindness is a big learning goal for Eads’ class. She wants to teach them how to learn, yes, but also how to be good citizens and to look out for others. Eads feels the importance of being kind and giving grace now more than ever. Her parents-in-law are both in the hospital. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Between caring for them and caring for her students, Eads rarely has a moment for herself. Any small act of kindness goes a long way in her eyes. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Around Christmastime</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The use of the seasonal time stamps as subheadings really shows the extended reporting period on this project. How were you able to time manage this story being a year long project? </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We dropped in to Ms. Eads’ classroom, on average, about twice a month. So really, it wasn’t that big of a lift until it came time to pull the piece together in May. I was easily able to work on other projects and cover my beat effectively during the school year. What really helped in the end was taking a few minutes after each visit to journal about the day, so that when it came time to write through the piece, most sections were already fully written.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Also important to note, we had thought about this being a four-month project instead and only following the class through the first semester. But we were getting such great stuff and ultimately decided to keep it going. I think reporting to the end of the school year helped us to tell a fuller, better story in the end.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sharpsburg Elementary has a beloved December tradition for students: the Penguin Patch, a pop-up shop of knickknacks, jewelry, toys, mugs and stickers. Students get a preview of the merchandise a week before the store comes to school, and Eads suggests each student bring $5 to $10 the day of shopping. It’s mostly junk, she says, but the kids get excited to buy presents for others. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Aubrey is the first to get to school that morning, wearing a shirt that reads: “Your voice has power.” Eads compliments it. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“That means you are strong,” Eads tells Aubrey. “You can change the world.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads says she had Aubrey’s older brother and her mother as first graders. She had Daniel’s father in class, too, and Nayr’s brother. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The kids check their mailboxes and get breakfast. Everyone at Sharpsburg receives free breakfast, though some students tell Eads they already ate and don’t take anything. Spirit dances around while she eats, still unable to stay seated.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When it’s time for the Penguin Patch, Eads has her students line up in two lines: one for boys and one for girls.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In Eads' boy line, one student is crying. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He walks up to the front of the line and holds Eads’ hand, wiping his eyes and looking down. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Is this because you don’t have money?” Eads asks, bending down. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The boy nods and sniffles. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I will allow you to pick one thing and I will buy it,” she says, and hugs him. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Inside the shop there are long tables full of trinkets to choose from: mugs that say “Super Dad,” “Best Mom Ever” pens, aprons, notebooks covered in sequins, necklaces, rings, keychains and games. The students go up a few at a time, with a chaperone, to look around and choose their gifts. They have no concept of money or how much they can spend, so their teachers try to direct them towards bins in their price range. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads spends $2.50 at the shop. It covers two gifts the little boy picks out for his brother and his sister. His tears have dried. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The daily challenges many Norwood students face are incomprehensible to those in neighboring districts and the Cincinnati suburbs. Every student in the district is economically disadvantaged, </span><a href="https://reportcard.education.ohio.gov/district/detail/044578" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">according to state data</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. There are no school buses in Norwood. Every student either walks to school or gets dropped off in the car line. The schools didn’t send families supply lists at the beginning of the year, instead stocking classrooms with enough pencils, folders, crayons and highlighters for all. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Principal Joe Westendorf says Sharpsburg teachers could teach anywhere, but not all teachers could teach at Sharpsburg. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Halfway Through the Year</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Back in Eads’ room, the veteran teacher instructs her students to set up their folders to make private desks. It’s time for a spelling test. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads reads off the words and uses each in a sentence: let, as, be, saw, but, into, help, what, its, they, when and now. She tells the children to hold up their pencils when they’re done with each word so she knows when to move on. They study 12 words every two weeks, she says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads encourages her students to tap and sound out words that are more difficult. She reminds them to make sure their letters are the right size and shape. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When one student gets anxious about the spelling test, Eads tells her to use “a body scan” to calm down, and to just try her best. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Throughout the story, you use Eads’ actions to show her teaching style and character. You must have seen so many scenes over a year of following the class. What advice do you have for creating scenes like this to show the person’s character?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Little moments that seem routine to someone like Ms. Eads are sometimes the best way to show their character. It’s the age-old “show, don’t tell” directive most journalists get at one point or another. Instead of writing “Ms. Eads knows her students really well and comes up with good exercises to keep them engaged.” Show the reader! That’s what I did here, just describing what I saw in her classroom. Noting small details and how others respond to those actions, too – in this case, Eads’ students – helps the reader understand that person’s character.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The rest of the day consists of number identification and sentence building exercises. Eads’ students count by twos, fives and tens and backwards by ones. Every now and then she reminds her students to pull up their masks. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Because the school is still following strict COVID-19 safety protocols, these lessons are a bit different than what Eads would usually do. In a typical year, she’d have everyone sit together on the rug up at the front of her classroom. They’d do more activities together on the whiteboard.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads pauses for “brain breaks” between tests and lessons. Sometimes it’s 30 seconds to make animal noises, other times it’s a one-minute nap. Anything to keep them engaged and focused. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One of their last lessons of the day is a word math problem, about how many pet turtles there are total if one kid has 7 and another has 6. She reads the problem in her “Gruffalo” voice, at the kids’ request. It’s low and scratchy, which makes her students giggle. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eads is part entertainer, part therapist, part instructor and part friend to these kids. She has to be. While first graders have a lot of material to get through each school day, they are 6 and 7-year-olds, after all. And there is no work without play. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">February</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In February, Eads’ mother-in-law dies. She says she’s not sure what lies ahead for her family. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A substitute teacher fills in with her class and speech therapist Allison Flanigan provides a lesson on emotional regulation.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Instead of focusing the story solely on Eads, you decided to include other characters: the substitute teacher and the speech therapist. What was your thought process on how to include different characters? </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I’d argue the story isn’t about Ms. Eads, but about her students’ growth. And while she was a big influence on their growth, of course, she wasn’t working alone. The substitute teacher and speech therapist and other paraprofessionals had an impact on the kids’ progress throughout the year, so they were necessary to include in the story. Any educator will tell you it takes a village to help students along their academic journeys, and that’s why I included those other characters.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flanigan tells Eads’ students that she spilled coffee all over herself earlier in the day. In that moment, she had two options, she says: get upset and throw everything on the ground or take a deep breath and continue with her day. The kids tell her the better option is to continue with her day. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flanigan and the children go through different scenarios to determine what constitutes a “big deal” or a “little deal” and how to respond to each. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Big deals often require asking for help, like when someone is hurt or bleeding. On the playground a few weeks ago, Alice Sears fell and skinned her knee. Blood seeped through her green leggings and Aubrey got the attention of an adult on duty. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Little deals usually require taking a deep breath and moving on, like not getting the color crayon you wanted. When Dominic Workman was frustrated at STEM class because some students weren’t sharing their magnetic tiles, he breathed it out and kept working on his own project. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Why should students trust adults at school to help with “big deals,” Flanigan asks? </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Elizabeth, who is wearing a sparkly pink tutu, raises her hand to answer. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Because we care and love you guys and we want to help you,” she says, mimicking the adults she knows. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The rest of the afternoon is free time for students to catch up on work. Without Eads there to enforce structure and stability, some of the students are particularly antsy. Kindall keeps falling out of her chair. Crosby Connolly takes a break and goes for a short walk in the hallway. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The sub, used to working with high schoolers, isn’t sure what to do. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Structure and routine were the main ingredients missing from virtual school. Eads couldn’t control her students’ environments last year, when family members would wander into frames or kids would log off without explanation. She thought structure would make a comeback this year when she returned to in-person learning. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">But sometimes, life has other plans. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Spring’s Nearly Here</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The first thing Nayr says when she walks into Kathy Burton’s art class is: “You have on Claude Monet’s shirt.” She pronounces the “T” in “Monet.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s true, Burton is dressed in theme for the day because the students will make their own version of Monet’s famous water lilies.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Their masterpiece will include ducks, specifically Ruby the duck, from the Jonathan Emmett children’s books they’ve read in Eads’ class. Each student will create their own Ruby by cutting out the different duck body parts and gluing them together, then drawing on Ruby’s eyes with a black marker. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A large piece of blue construction paper is laid out on a table at the front of Burton’s classroom. Aubrey says she made the brown nest in the middle and Elizabeth made the cattails. Everyone’s Ruby creation will get taped onto the paper pond once they’re finished. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Kindall is wearing new pink glasses. She says she just got them yesterday, and that her mother thinks they will make her better at drawing.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Across the room, Aubrey furrows her eyebrows in concentration while cutting out the pieces for her Ruby. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At another table, there’s a squabble over who gets to sit where. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Art was optional when the students were online, Burton says. She is very happy to be back in-person, and now in April without masks or plastic shields between each student. There’s more movement now and they can get more done, she says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The timid, unsure children who stepped into Eads’ classroom in August are long gone by now. These students are confident, silly and eager to learn.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They’ve grown socially, too, and can be found exchanging what passes for first-grader gossip. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some students still struggle to regulate their emotions and stay in control of their bodies. But everyone can add and subtract by April and write complete sentences with capital letters to start and punctuation to end. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“But it's only because we started filling them up emotionally first,” Eads says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A Perfect May Day</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Full of jitters, Eads’ students walk out the front door of Sharpsburg Elementary in two side-by-side lines. Some students hold hands. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They are about to walk about half a mile to the Norwood LaRosa’s off Montgomery Road, where they will make individual pizzas and talk about producers, consumers, goods and services, rounding out their two-week economics unit. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s their first field trip, ever, Eads says. She gets teary just thinking about it, placing her hand to her heart. She says the field trip cost each student just $2. It’s a perfect May day to make the journey: 67 degrees with the sun just poking through the clouds. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Once they are seated at the restaurant, co-owner Jim Von Hoene steps out of the kitchen and welcomes Eads’ students to his store. He’s been hosting field trips for almost 30 years.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He explains that they can come back to the kitchen five at a time, with a chaperone, to get a tour and make their pizzas. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Osmar, Nayr, Kindall, Raegan and Everlee Lomboy go first. The students line up to wash their hands then peek inside the walk-in freezer and cooler.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Von Hoene explains what is stored in each and what temperature certain ingredients need to be kept at. Then they line up along a metal counter near the pizza oven, which Von Hoene says will bake their pizzas at 500 degrees for five minutes.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Each student starts with dough and sauce, which some students have trouble spreading. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Everlee puts pepperoni on her pizza, and Nayr puts pineapple on hers, saying “please” and “thank you” all the time, as they were instructed by Eads. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I love the use of multiple anecdotes, like this one, throughout the story to keep the reader interested. What advice would you give in maintaining the reader's attention through a long format story like this one?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Moments you as a reporter find interesting, noteworthy or heartwarming are likely moments that will stand out to readers, too. A big part of writing longform is picking your favorite memories from the reporting process. There were certainly moments that didn’t make the cut (that’s what editors are for!) but my advice would be to lead with the parts of the story that made you feel something in the moment, or parts of your reporting that stuck in your head weeks after the fact. Those are the anecdotes you can use throughout the piece to keep people caring.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Back out in the dining room, kids who aren’t making pizza are working through activities on their paper placemats. Phoenix Curran and Fabian Dominguez practice their tic-tac-toe skills. When one student is asked by her friend to borrow a crayon, she hesitates. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Almost-second graders would be happy to share,” Eads says, prompting the girl to hand over the crayon. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Crosby and Evan Heppard hold hands on the walk back to Sharpsburg. The boys discuss summer playdate plans and promise to ask their parents to set something up. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Me and you can play my instruments,” Crosby says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One Week Left</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s the second-to-last week of school and Eads’ students are watching a video on worker bees. Each student is sitting still, facing forward, engaged. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The kids are sitting closer together now at smaller tables without plastic barriers, and only two students in class are wearing masks and that is by choice. Norwood dropped its mask policy weeks ago. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“This is more me,” Eads says. She calls her students up to the front rug to all sit together for story time. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The class reads two books about bees, one fiction and one nonfiction, and then Eads gets up and draws two clumsy, overlapping circles, more like ovals, on the easel. She thanks the class for not making fun of her Venn diagram. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“That’s a good circle!” Kiyah Lewis says. Dominic says he needs to practice his own circles. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Sometimes I make sloppy circles, too,” Nayr says, comforting Eads. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The kids compare the stories with partners first, then Eads calls on students to complete the Venn diagram. She decides two students are too distracting and sends them back to their seats and takes a hairtie one student is fiddling with and sets it in the girl’s mailbox. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When they’re finished, Eads has the children shout together: “Hey second grade teachers, we are rocking it!” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With one week left before Eads’ kids are second graders, they can count to 120 by twos, fives, tens, forwards and backwards. They know the days of the week, the months of the year and are starting to tell time.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That afternoon, the kids sing and dance along to a math exercise. Eads has stayed strong all day, but now she falters. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The day before, a shooter entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 students and two teachers. Another 17 were wounded in the Robb Elementary School shooting. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Just listening to her own small, innocent charges “makes me want to cry.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“They just sound so sweet,” Eads says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nineteen children died. She has 19 in her class. The numbers stop her cold. The reality of her responsibility is too much to bear. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">But Eads breathes through her feelings and walks back to the center of the classroom to join in with the cold spaghetti dance, her favorite move. Her students welcome her back with enthusiasm, unaware of the terrifying scene playing out in Eads’ mind. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Last Day</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On the last day of school Eads says she still has some academics she wants to get through. The students should do their math dance one more time, finish a project on animal habitats and read one more story. Everyone’s here. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The nonreaders from the beginning of the school year can read now, Eads says. Her students like being at school and having conversations with one another. Some of them still can’t tie their shoelaces, but everyone knows that capital letters go at the beginning of people’s names and the importance of being kind to each other. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Most of the students say their favorite subject is math, and they like learning how to add, subtract and multiply. But Kiyah says she loves reading. Her favorite book doesn’t even have pictures, she says. Just words. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some students didn’t hit every learning benchmark, Eads says, but that wasn’t her goal for those students. Each student has different needs. Some needed to learn that they are loved, she says, or learn that school is a safe place, or learn how to find their voice and advocate for themselves. One student was nonverbal at the beginning of the year. Last week, he led the class in a math word problem. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Journalists don’t typically have the opportunity to follow sources for an extended period of time. What was it like being able to personally witness the changes in the students from the beginning of the school year to the end? How was this important to the story's chronology? </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I loved working on this project for exactly this reason. Looking at the data from Eads class, which showed moderate student progress, wouldn’t have told this story – not really. So much of education reporting is looking at numbers and progress charts. But actually seeing the kids grow, and noticing changes that we can’t track with numbers – like their ability to make friends, managing their emotions and learning to actually like school – made this a much better and more engaging project. We couldn’t have done this by bouncing to different classes each month, either. It had to be the same kids in order to paint the picture of progress.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“They're where they should be at this point,” she says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At their last recess, Aubrey, Nayr and Alice play a variation of tag together. Phoenix, Raegan, Crosby and Sebastian Garcia Zetina pile up on the slide together and giggle as they inch downwards. Fabian starts playing soccer by himself, but then Elizabeth, Daniel and Anthony Mercado Escobar join in. Fabian is good at soccer. He shows off his best moves. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When they line up to go back inside, Dominic straightens in alert. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We only have, like, two hours left with Mrs. Eads,” he says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I love you, Mrs. Eads,” Raegan says. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Elizabeth asks if she and Mrs. Eads can have a sleepover sometime. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On their way out, Eads insists on a hug from each of her students. She says goodbye to their families and calls out last minute affirmations, pieces of advice. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You matter always,” she says. “You belong forever.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Be careful crossing the street!”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You are in my heart and loved always.” </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“When you’re in the sun, wear sunscreen!” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I love the interactions in this scene. What makes this significant to the story? What are your tips for using dialogue in a story like this? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This was such an emotional day for Eads and her students. I could feel it in the room, so I knew it was important. The dialogue here, I think, also shows the light chaos of the last day of school. Parents are in and out picking up their little ones, while Eads tries to get her last words in. Those words are important because they are the last ones her students will hear from her until they see her in the halls next school year. Those are the words that will stick with most of them over the summer. In a story like this that is chronological, someone’s last words are almost always significant.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is what Eads was born to do. She is a teacher. She can’t control which lesson, moment, life hack, story or trait her students will remember from this school year. But she hopes that something, a feeling, will stay with them. The knowledge that learning can be fun, that they are safe while in the care of their teachers and the instinct to spread love over hate. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She hopes they visit her classroom next year, when she’s back to square one with a new batch of squirmy kids awaiting her guidance. This city, this school, this classroom, these kids make up her life’s work. After 33 years, she says she knows she can give more. So she will. Because that’s what teachers do. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before Nayr leaves, her older brother Jaron, who had Eads in class as a first grader, stops by. He just finished fourth grade. When he was in Eads class, she says, she gave him a Sonic stuffed toy because that was his favorite character. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jaron hands Eads a Sonic sticker and gives her a hug before running home, Nayr trailing behind. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sticker in hand, Eads goes back inside to lock up her now empty classroom and heads home. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> How did you settle on the ending of this story? What made this seem like a good conclusion to the story? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> We always wanted to keep the reporting confined to what happens at school. That’s why you don’t get the parent perspective in this story. The boundary was always the school building. So ending with Eads about to walk out of the building, out of her empty classroom, seemed like just the perfect ending in keeping that boundary.</span></span></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>CincySPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046311500087154077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-41795693390656076232024-02-06T14:56:00.000-08:002024-02-07T09:22:20.362-08:00Laurie Pike Takes Readers on a Pinball Journey through Generations<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Sophie Langton</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ac1b832f-7fff-29ff-549d-d6e8c632ed0f" style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 2pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This story is a part of the Cincinnati’s Storytelling of Journalism project, which represents a collaboration between</span><a href="https://nku.edu/academics/informatics/programs/undergraduate/journalism.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Northern Kentucky University (NKU) journalism students</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the NKU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and the</span><a href="http://cincyspj.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students interviewed professional journalist winners and finalists from the Greater Cincinnati SPJ Chapter’s </span><a href="https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2023/06/winners-and-finalists-announced-greater.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to create these</span><a href="https://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/annotation-tuesday/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nieman Storyboard Annotations</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-inspired Q&As and story annotations that analyze and celebrate our region’s award-winning works of journalism.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2023 Excellence in Journalism Award: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Arts/Entertainment Reporting</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Journalist: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Laurie Pike, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Magazine</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Winning Story:</span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Feducation%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fmadison-schools-shooting-4-years-later-some-wounds-never-heal%2F4874636002%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cdaymi%40nku.edu%7C43f74b9c64534aa124bc08d9a5eb452c%7Cac3218551f554d0bb2fa531085ca3022%7C0%7C0%7C637723253200151479%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=DcbpCKtruLGOhjfVabY41Ic98LLXkXENYb3URl1Oonk%3D&reserved=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/the-pinball-wizards-among-us/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Pinball Wizards Among Us</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Student interviewers:</b> Lilly Boden, Sophie Langton and Sam Wulfekotter</span><div> <span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Laurie Pike knows a good story when she sees one. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the heart of Cincinnati, she found just that: A hidden world full of flashing lights, resonating dings, and the clatter of balls in motion. This captivating scene prompted Pike to begin her journey into the realm of pinball, a world that not only piqued her journalistic interest but also serves a sentimental remembrance of her past. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As a child, Pike spent hours at a pizza parlor playing pinball with her brother and recalls it as a fond memory. Having knowledge of the game, Pike was inspired to dive deeper into the pinball world. Since playing as a teenager, the game of pinball has changed in unprecedented ways, becoming more complex and strategic.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pike, a freelance contributor at </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Magazine</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, frequently channels her enthusiasm for feature writing into captivating narratives, such as the world of belly-dancing and the allure of cult cinema classics. This time around, she created a detailed feature called </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Pinball Wizards Among Us</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pike’s research for this story was no easy task. Aiding her journey was a graphic novel, unavailable at her local library but loaned to her by a pinball fanatic, that unexpectedly turned into a goldmine of information and education. However, digging up accurate details about such a niche topic like pinball can quickly become tedious and turn into an unpredictable task. Because of this, Pike tends to take full-on plunges into the world of her stories to extract her research, embracing a deeper dive into the intricacies of her subject matter. She is driven by a determination to uncover the most accurate information possible.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I try to avoid what I call churnalism,” Pike says, “which is a result of people who rely on sources that have been relying on sources, but they haven’t gone back to the motherlode, the original source.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Searching for an original source, Pike spent many hours at local restaurants and bars where pinball was present. The passion of countless pinball players guided her development of a strong, detailed community depiction. Justin Masterson, the central character of the story, was among the fanatics who dedicated time to learning the game. Through Masterson, Pike found her access point into the world of professional pinball. She observed fathers introducing their children to pinball and spoke with the man who made pinball legal after being outlawed for many years.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NKU students Sophie Langton, Lilly Boden and Sam Wulfekotter interviewed Pike about how she came upon this story, capturing characters on the page and coverage of niche topics. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What was your process on narrowing down the broad topic of pinball and localizing it?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 8pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The story was suggested by an acquaintance of mine who had told me about Cincinnati's place as the birthplace of modern pinball, and his efforts to get the 150</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> anniversary of that innovation noted by local media. When covering a very broad subject, like pinball, it helps to have one person who serves as a guide in your article. It personalizes the story and it gives you what I call a ‘canoe in the river of information.’ Justin Masterson, who had pitched the story, made for a perfect guide for many reasons.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Masterson's character was very unique and fun to read. I was wondering what kind of techniques you used to bring that kind of character to life on paper.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is a lot of sitting around. I spent a lot of time interviewing. I spent time at his house; I went to different pinball parlors with him. We actually met socially, and he had pitched me on the story. He goes, you know, we should do a story about pinball and I'm like, ‘oh that’s very interesting.’ But I was busy with other stuff and a year went by. A year later, I pitched it and got in touch with him.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What was the greatest challenge you experienced while working on this story?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One is understanding the game. I’ve been playing pinball since I was a teenager. I’m very nostalgic about it, so I have very fond memories of playing pinball. But the game has gotten so much more complex.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The second piece of it was making notes while a pinball game is in process and trying to explain what happened. I opened the scene with two people playing pinball, and pinball happens very quickly!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhElKDeI4LUOKwi8-zdqUAZj3qxSk7Ji9cbdUIyoszbWeffqWRC23vuCZzO0HN6pgnI5L8kjNKJXbqO93NsiJMUi5Ty5Iox2qZlTE_56vhxwqaAD6TxK6GlWRPOMMFMG2AhYDgCuq4qwQ2sYUrDioKm8mFVeiA5a0let-baD2W0kILf2-HD6KjRqHZGDTky/s681/Laurie%20PIke%20photo.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhElKDeI4LUOKwi8-zdqUAZj3qxSk7Ji9cbdUIyoszbWeffqWRC23vuCZzO0HN6pgnI5L8kjNKJXbqO93NsiJMUi5Ty5Iox2qZlTE_56vhxwqaAD6TxK6GlWRPOMMFMG2AhYDgCuq4qwQ2sYUrDioKm8mFVeiA5a0let-baD2W0kILf2-HD6KjRqHZGDTky/w280-h320/Laurie%20PIke%20photo.jpeg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Laurie Pike</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Would you see yourself writing a story like this one again?</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I often cover unique subcultures and it’s a typical story for me. The story was interesting to me because of the sense of nostalgia because it’s been around for so long and a lot of people think Cincinnati and the Midwest are bland, and these stories show that there are a lot of fascinating people in the area. It’s about a subculture that you may have heard about, but you don’t know how big it is, or you don’t know that it’s growing, and you certainly don’t know Cincinnati’s place in it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Are there any other niche topics that you are interested in exploring for future stories?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Yes! I’ve met quite a few non-binary people in the past year. And so, my next story is going to be about non-binary people in Cincinnati. So, I’m really excited about that, because it’s something that I don’t know a lot about. I am also doing a story about a guy who has a printing shop in Cincinnati, meaning he will print very high-end artists, lithographs, etchings, or silkscreens. He has been there for more than 40 years, and he is about to close shop. He has done work for major artists, including Yoko Ono.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/the-pinball-wizards-among-us/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Pinball Wizards Among Us</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By Laurie Pike, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati Magazine</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s a muggy summer evening at Arcade Legacy Newport, a cavern of electronic amusements in a shopping center between Supercuts and Crunch Fitness.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Justin Masterson steps up to Tron: Legacy, a pinball machine based on the sequel to the cult 1980s sci-fi movie. It’s got futuristic motorcycles on its sides and a play field pulsating blue, yellow, and orange lights to the electro beat of Daft Punk.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> What influenced your decision to open with Masterson’s story rather than featuring the story of Brad and Jesse Baker first?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jesse and Brad I knew I was going to write about, they are the Kings of Pinball in Cincinnati. So, I knew they were going to come into the story anyway. But, I wanted to start with someone who just loves pinball and plays pinball for fun. Masterson played a little bit in the olden days and then he came back to it and became completely obsessed. He taught himself how to fix pinball machines, he fixes other people’s pinball machines for free because he loves the game so much. He’s just a perfect fanatic, very well spoken, and very enthusiastic. I wanted to start with a regular person, and not someone who was knee-deep in the industry. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #c2e0f4; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Masterson, 43, is trailing Jesse Baker, also 43, who is Cincinnati’s top-ranked pinball player and the arcade’s owner. Masterson pulls the plunger ever so gently to knock off a skill shot (a specific first target after the ball release for extra points). He shoots the ball up a ramp lit by neon-like fiber optics, and it disappears into a scoop—a hole that locks the ball and then, after releasing it, activates multi-ball, sending steel spheres raining down. Masterson traps and cradles them in the flippers so he can deploy them, one at a time, to execute a strategic sequence of moves. With hip and hand, he nudges an outlane-bound ball into an in-lane. He saves another from the drain with a quick left/ right slap to the sides of the cabinet.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> While describing the game of pinball you used words like “flippers”, “outlane-ball”, and “inlane-ball”. Is this pinball lingo? Did you learn it from Masterson or other sources?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Yes, it’s pinball lingo and I learned it a little bit from both. I reread the story this morning, and I was looking at that paragraph. And I thought, you know, do I need to explain in-lane? I have to go back and forth like I do explain what a skill shot is, but I didn't explain because it would have really clogged the paragraph. Looking back over it. If I were an editor, I might have made a little arrow, saying, I'm not sure what this means. But as for research, I do the usual, I get online. But I also checked out a lot of books. When talking with pinball experts you pick up on the lingo but I also had to search the meaning behind words in the graphic novel.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When he passes 22 million points, the machine knocks—a short, loud sound designed to let everyone in the place know he’s crushing it. Now he’s in multi-ball again! This time he’s flipping furiously, just trying to keep from draining. One more shove of the machine and it tilts: Game over. His score of 41 million trounces Baker’s 36 mil. Masterson steps away, beaming. “When I beat Jesse…” he says, gobsmacked. “Well, that never happens.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is a great example of the passion you convey through your characters. What were some stylistic/structural techniques you applied to bring this character to life? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Structurally I wanted to capture a complete scene, start to finish. I also didn’t want it to be long. So I take you through a game that Masterson wound up winning, which was not expected. He was so stoked! I use exclamations points sparingly, but one was merited to capture the speed and tension of the multi-ball. The machine “knocking” was a great detail, because it makes public in the arcade that this player is racking up points. And finally, the graph telegraphs that Jesse Baker is a force in Cincinnati pinball, and, I hope, that makes the reader want to know more about him.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The sweet smell of success doesn’t linger. Masterson—tall with short salt-and-pepper facial hair, wearing the pinball-player uniform of a baseball cap, T-shirt, and loose, knee-length shorts—goes on to lose the next three games in a row. He places fifth out of 11 in the tournament. “It’s a streaky game, a very mental game,” he says, rounding up his 12-year-old daughter, Bayla, who also competed. “But playing pinball is my happy place.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Not unlike those multi-balls, more and more Cincinnatians are descending into that happy place all at once—or ricocheting back to it, like Masterson. As a suburbs-raised, middle-aged white man who was exposed to pinball as a kid, he typifies the core enthusiast demographic. “Pinball embodies an element of pure physics that video games don’t have,” says Masterson, who has soured on the latter since they’re pre-programmed and as such can be memorized and become predictable. “You get to be surprised every second of every pinball game. It keeps you fully present.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Introducing Bayla to pinball back when she was 6 and bringing her to compete alongside him is part of a newer phenomenon that’s lending staying power to the trend. The new generation of fidgety flipper fingers suggests that pinball’s popularity isn’t just a passing hipster fad. Bayla demolishes me in our first game together, explaining that shots need to be strategized. “You could have a ball for 15 minutes and score lower than someone who has it for five if they hit the right things,” she says.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The interview with Baker, Masterson, and Bayla is really interesting and a very natural feeling to start this story. Was this interview something you planned out in advance or was this spontaneous? Did you plan to lead with it? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I tend to open my articles with actuality, and with a story about pinball, why not drop the reader right into a game of pinball like a ball dropped onto the playing field? However I don’t choose the opening scene before I have done all my research and sit down to write. Neither do I plan out how and where to use interviews before I do them. As with the research, I go out and capture everything I can, then I drag it into my cave and try to spin gold out of it all.! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Now and then something will happen, and I’ll think, “That will make a good lede.” But sometimes I save it for the end of the article, because I like to have a kicker, something succinct to go out with a flourish. As for interviews, I speak with twice the number of people who actually wind up quoted in the story. (I always tell them in advance they may not make it in; sometimes people get disappointed by that.) So I interviewed a bunch of people on that particular day at the arcade. Of course I wanted to interview Bayla, though I didn’t know in advance she would be there. One because she is a rare kid on the scene, and female (of which there are many but not an even number of on the scene.) And also because she trounced me in the game, and gave me that great quote.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Queen City is no stranger to the growing national predilection for nostalgic, tactile pastimes away from the computer, such as crafting and playing vinyl LPs. More than that, though, Cincinnati appears to be setting the tone for pinball’s 21st century comeback as a more family-oriented hobby while boosting the game’s new prominence as a competitive sport. Pinball has been around for close to a century, but only in the past few years could a Cincinnatian compete for rank in a globally recognized pecking order. To climb that list requires practice and frequent competing, which is bringing business back to arcades.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland are probably in the top 10 of pinball cities in the U.S.,” says Chad Hobbs, who publishes Pin Headz, a monthly zine about the local silver-ball scene. “Seattle is first, and Pittsburgh is up there. But Cincinnati has probably grown the fastest of them.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The stats back him up: The number of machines available for public play in this area has tripled since 2015. There are well over 200 in the arcades, bars, family amusement centers, and the odd ice cream stand between Florence’s Comics2Games (40 machines) and Pinball Garage in Hamilton (45). Arcade Legacy Newport has a 11,000-square-foot sister arcade, simply called Arcade Legacy, set to open soon in Sharonville. Wondercade opened last year in a former plumbing supply showroom in Westwood, and this past summer Anderson Tap House joined the growing list of craft beer emporiums with a wing of thoughtfully curated pinball machines. This explosion doesn’t include the expanding personal collections of folks like Phoebe and Larry Smith, whose Batavia home brims with more than 60 “pins,” as hobbyists call them.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> That stat is insane, “The number of machines available for public play in this area has tripled since 2015”, where do you find these stats? How far did you have to dig to find it?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I credit the geeky pinball community with keeping very good tabs on how many pinball machines can be found at any given location and home of a person who collects them. There’s a website devoted to it, too. I compared the current number of pins to the number that was mentioned in the Cincinnati Magazine story about the game that ran in 2015. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Like Hobbs, Masterson found his raison d’etre when he rediscovered pinball several years ago. He taught himself to repair machines (refusing to accept pay for his service when helping out an arcade) and broadcasts commentary from pinball tournaments that stream live online. He’s more than your average stan, though—his mission is to raise pinball’s profile on the national and international stage and to give Cincinnati its due. The Queen City, he wants everyone to know, is where modern pinball was born.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I spent a big chunk of last year making sure that if someone googled ‘birthplace of pinball’ Cincinnati would come up,” says Masterson, who works in marketing. He contacted news organizations last year about the 150th anniversary of pinball’s invention here. He called into a live radio show about the recent Made in Cincinnati exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center to inform listeners about pinball, which was overlooked in the show. “This year my goal is a demo reel for ESPN,” he says. “If we can watch cornhole tournaments or darts finals, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have commentary around pinball games.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> How did you choose Masterson as a central character, and what aspects of his personality did you find compelling for this story? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Masterson was the one who suggested the story (though that never guarantees that person would be in it), and is the most passionate person on the scene who is not actually employed in the game somehow. He had a compelling story about how he got into the game, and he’s very, very articulate and interesting. Access is always a consideration: will this person let me into his home to play his personal machines? Will he make time for the my many interviews, calls, emails and texts? Does he have any hidden agenda I need to be aware of? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He is the core demographic of people in the scene–white, male, over 40–but he is less nostalgic about it, and more involved in repositioning the game for modern times. His passion is expressed in spotlighting the competitions with live commentary, and working to make the game more inclusive and inviting to women and people of color.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Even if modern pinball was born in these parts, the game itself has French origins. Bagatelle, an 18th century variation on billiards, may be forgotten today, but its pins of metal or wood standing sentry around holes or pockets on a tilted, dome-topped play field foretold the hobby that The Who (and Elton John) popularized a half-century ago with Pinball Wizard. Bagatelle migrated from France in the 1700s and spread across America. An 1863 political cartoon depicts Abe Lincoln playing the game, using a pool cue, in a tavern.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 1871, Montague Redgrave, a British expat living in Cincinnati, secured a patent for “Improvements in Bagatelles.” A spring-loaded plunger built into the right side of a wooden case replaced the cue. Other defining aspects of the game, such as bell sound effects, made it more like modern pinball than anything before it. Other Ohioans in Youngstown modified a handmade tabletop bagatelle into a money-making contraption by adding a coin slot, plus a ball return and a glass top. That 1931 novelty, called Whiffle, was test-marketed in a drugstore where it “took in $2.60 in nickels in a single hour,” writes Alexander Smith, a historian who lives in Atlanta. “Before long, they were booking orders for over 2,000 Whiffle games per month.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A handful of tinkerers around the country were simultaneously concocting similar contraptions. Several proved popular but could not be produced fast enough to keep up with demand from bars, stores, and train stations. It was the Depression era, and cheap entertainment provided a brief respite from the misery of breadlines and unemployment.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cincinnati’s place in the history of pinball was all but forgotten by the mid-1930s, when Chicago, already a leading maker of coin-op amusements such as slot machines, eclipsed us as the game’s headquarters. The three biggest pinball manufacturers (Bally, Williams, and Gottlieb) rode wave after wave of the game’s popularity. It was a good run, all the way to the end of the century.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The bells and chimes went silent, though, by the year 2000. Video games had edged pinball machines out of arcade real estate. Home consoles were a literal game-changer, obviating the arcades themselves.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Stern Pinball Inc. arose from the millennial ashes in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, near Chicago, and is the game’s big kahuna today. It’s created more than 100 games, mainly licenses of bands, movies, and TV shows such as Stranger Things and The Mandalorian; an Eminem-themed game is rumored to be coming soon.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pinball will undoubtedly remain the quirky little sibling to video games. But the post-pandemic desperation for human contact has fueled a return to a new phenomenon: arcade bars like BrewDog in Pendleton and Pins Mechanical Co. in Over-the-Rhine.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sure, you can buy your own home pinball machine, as a growing number of people do, for several thousand dollars. But for most silver-ball fans, in-person playing with others in a venue where you can meet new acquaintances, grab a beer, and compete for the glory of inputting your name on the backbox display is the preferred method of play. Especially when there are so many sculpture-quality games to choose from. Batman 66 features a rotating bat cave and a TV set under the glass that runs footage from the original TV show. Ghostbusters has a hologram target that blows up a ghost when a ball passes under it. The Guns ‘n Roses pin takes a photo of you while playing and inserts it into one of the band, making it look as if you were hanging out with Axel and Slash. Upstart pinball machine makers, such as Jersey Jack Pinball and Spooky Pinball, compete to outdo each other with such novelties.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This story touches on historical aspects of pinball in Cincinnati. How did you decide on the structure of presenting historical information and current developments? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Pinball’s history is long and convoluted. There’s a whole Chicago/Las Vegas mafia angle I did not touch on because it would have required explanation, and would have digressed from the focus of the article, which is the current Cincinnati scene. As for structure, the fallback is to present it chronologically. As for current developments, there are a lot of them, but having the Baker brothers as anchors, to humanize the info, was better than reeling off dry facts and figures.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Two developments have raised the game’s profile in Cincinnati in recent years: The growth of Pincinnati, an annual tournament, and attention from the area’s royal family of pinball, the Bakers. Brad Baker owns Pinball Garage, a three-generational arcade bar: Paterfamilias Rick works behind the scenes and in maintenance, Brad owns the place and handles promotions, and his son Bradley is general manager. Brad’s brother Jesse Baker—the aforementioned top player in this area—owns Arcade Legacy, with about 80 pins. “Jesse brought back pinball,” Brad boasts, citing his brother’s string of locations starting in 2009, when pinball was a long-forgotten memory.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Bakers have done more than provide old-school arcade experiences for a nostalgic older generation and the new guard of enthusiasts. They’ve imbued a wholesomeness into the Cincinnati pinball scene, which may be the key to the game’s survival. Their Christian background is not discussed but can be felt.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Their father worked for Cincinnati Christian School in Fairfield, which Brad and Jesse attended, and their mother was a children’s pastor in Over-the-Rhine, where the family ministered to people in need. Today, people going through a rough patch can get a free meal at Pinball Garage, no questions asked. Brad Baker was named Citizen of the Year in 2021 by the city of Hamilton for his generosity in hosting countless charity events at the Garage. (As anyone in the pinball business will tell you, no one gets rich in it.)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Part of the exciting thing about arcades was that they felt a little wrong,” says Brad. “As a kid you want a little of that feeling, that edge, but not to the point you did something wrong. You wanted to be an adult. It was an adult’s game back then. It was mostly in seedy bars with a bunch of guys smoking and drinking and talking wrong about women. Pinballs from before the mid-’80s highly objectified women, with lots of cleavage and suggestive voices in callouts. They were never geared toward a kid playing them.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That part of the business hasn’t disappeared. Older games depicting stereotypes of women and minorities still gobble quarters. Stern came out (in 2015!) with Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons, whose exploitative graphics are embarrassingly out of date. But Baker says the industry in general got the message when the video game biz steered toward G- and PG-rated fare, which guaranteed a wider customer base.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> You go into a lot of the history in the previous section of the story, why didn’t you include the uglier side of pinball and the machines in that section too?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> There are only so many spokes you can attach to a wheel. Sometimes you need to break up the history into more than one section. The ugly side of pinball is fascinating to me; I have a penchant for the lurid. But once again, it doesn’t have a lot of bearing on Cincinnati pinball today. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We want to be family-friendly,” he says. “A lot of pinball bars are geared toward adults, with maybe a family night once or twice a week. We want kids to come and learn pinball alongside mom and dad.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On a recent Sunday night, the Garage was hopping with retirees, tattooed middle-agers, young couples on dates, a woman in a wheelchair, and a dad coaching his 6-year-old on the Harlem Globetrotters game. There were kids everywhere. A 10-year-old DJ was rocking the adjacent patio, while a waitress weaved through the crowd delivering brisket sliders to families at picnic tables. Mission accomplished.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pincinnati launched in 2018, and today it’s a multi-day tournament offering more than 100 free-play machines for the ticket-buying public. It has jumped in size each year, with 2020 skipped for obvious reasons. With the recent folding of two of the nation’s biggest pinball juggernauts—the Museum of Pinball in Banning, California, and Pinburgh, an annual confab in Pittsburgh—its rise has come at an auspicious time. “Ohio has three large pinball conventions a year now,” says Erik Wurtenberger, co-owner of Pincinnati with Jerry Westerkamp. “I don’t know if any other state has more than two.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pincinnati relies on the Baker brothers for machines and overall support. The convention is similarly committed to keeping the sport not just family-friendly but welcoming to segments of the population that have been underrepresented in arcades. “New people are getting into it,” says Wurtenberger, who was preparing for the fourth edition of Pincinnati December 2–4 at the Holiday Inn Eastgate. “It’s shifting slowly but steadily. A lot of women are playing. There’s an entire women’s competitive league called Belles and Chimes. And it’s exploded with younger players. It’s easy for multiple ages, genders, and lifestyles to be on the competitive tip.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Having competed in pinball shows across the country—he’s ranked 12th in his home state of Kentucky—Wurtenberger developed a clear sense of the vibe he wanted at the Cincinnati show. No profane freakouts over losses. Etiquette rules posted on each game. Never scheduling women’s tournament games in conflict with general competitions, in which women are also welcome to play. Pincinnati would also not be part of a larger comic-con type of event that draws furries, cosplayers, and others keen on the sexier side of leisure activities. In short, it would be less about hard partying and more about pinball.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s impossible to overstate the importance of official competitions in the rise of pinball. And that’s where Jesse Baker comes in. Up until 2015 there were no tournaments here (that we know of) sanctioned by the International Flipper Pinball Association, competitive pinball’s governing body. Phoebe and Larry Smith, the Batavia couple whose game-filled home had been ground zero for Cincinnati pinball leagues, wanted to improve their IFPA ranking, which is recognized internationally, so they secured credentials to run a tournament in their house in 2015. The following year, Baker’s Arcade Legacy: Bar Edition in Northside (now closed) ran the city’s first IFPA-endorsed tournaments in a public establishment. Thirteen people showed up.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Today, Baker says, “We have over 100 unique players locally who come to any given tournament.” That doesn’t include out-of-towners like Carlos Delaserda and John Delzoppo, Columbus and Cleveland players, respectively, who rank in the top 30 players worldwide and who travel here for tournaments. Meanwhile, someone like Justin Masterson, who travels for work, can also now play in any IFPA-approved competition in any city, and his scores will figure into his world ranking. That wasn’t possible before.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s been 150 years since modern pinball was invented here, and Cincinnatians are not done tinkering with the game. Masterson and Wurtenberger are fine-tuning the tournament broadcasts with pre-recorded videos such as explainers on the objectives of particular pinball machines. At the University of Cincinnati, a professor teaches two courses in pinball machine design, the nation’s first accredited university courses in a science niche that’s starting to spread to other campuses.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Will pinball storm pop culture again the way it did in the 1950s? Or the ‘70s or the ‘90s? Maybe. Sales of machines are on the upswing, arcades are expanding, and the IFPA will soon reach six figures in its number of ranked players.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At last year’s Pincinnati event, I had to drag my then 9-year-old nephew out of the game hall after two hours of nonstop play; it was his first experience of flipping the ball from pop bumper to drop-target, and he didn’t want it to end. On a recent Saturday evening, I brought him and his sister, now 10 and 6 respectively, to Wondercade. Parents and grandparents drank White Claw and beer. A slightly skeevy guy asked if I wanted to go out and smoke weed, just like in arcades of yore!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Question:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8cac6; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I think the skeevy guy asking if you wanted to smoke weed is a good way to add a little comedy to your story. When you were writing this part about drinking and smoking weed did you have doubts about including it in the paper worried about people’s reactions?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #c2e0f4; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Answer:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #c2e0f4; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> No, for four reasons: 1) It’s weed. 2) It actually happened. 3) I didn’t name the person. 4) It’s hysterical, because that’s what happened to me when I was 15 years old, not 50 years old in the pinball parlor. It was just so typical because there is that slightly sleazy undertone to pinball and I was kind of happy that it hasn’t completely disappeared. But, this interaction was so hysterical and so typical that I couldn’t not put it in. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I wasn’t as successful this time getting the kids to take to the silver ball. My nephew fell in with a group of kids in multi-player video games. His sister took the wheel at a driving simulator, squealing at every fiery collision. Standing next to the foosball tables, I waited to use the Guardians of the Galaxy pinball machine, which features Groot, whose kinetic mouth can gobble a ball or spit out multi-balls.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Push the button, flip the flipper!” a 30-something dad coached, his hand on top of his son’s tiny paws. The kid, just 3 years old, stood on a stool, his eyes wide as saucers, for his first crack at pinball.</span></p></span></div>CincySPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046311500087154077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-8150326903710997872024-01-23T20:50:00.000-08:002024-01-31T20:52:59.701-08:00Call For Entries Now Open - Greater Cincinnati SPJ Pro Chapter - 2024 Excellence In Journalism Contest <p><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqISjd7OBptmOwdL3w9OnnQP4WLDz5GbRO0yEdD5g8vDNuezx8NK_rRCifG82rI9mSnGDZxW0_AgZM1wbd_haVAdI4Ayy3X9_CHKW_nhK2SnDnVjBQpwK3sSbyCCKVM6b03hAAxa0OJILpDdMaRj37tp_IOAtLzDly__G6eZnUrflf2DuR_amW4tjO/s159/SPJ%20New%20Logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="159" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqISjd7OBptmOwdL3w9OnnQP4WLDz5GbRO0yEdD5g8vDNuezx8NK_rRCifG82rI9mSnGDZxW0_AgZM1wbd_haVAdI4Ayy3X9_CHKW_nhK2SnDnVjBQpwK3sSbyCCKVM6b03hAAxa0OJILpDdMaRj37tp_IOAtLzDly__G6eZnUrflf2DuR_amW4tjO/w212-h151/SPJ%20New%20Logo.jpg" width="212" /></a></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">2024</span></b></div><o:p></o:p></b><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">GREATER CINCINNATI SPJ PRO CHAPTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM CONTEST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">CALL FOR ENTRIES</span></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: red; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-highlight: yellow;">DEADLINE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: red; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-highlight: yellow;">11:59 P.M. - MARCH 15, 2024</span></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Greater Cincinnati Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">is looking for the most outstanding work appearing in print, online and on-air
between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, in Southwestern Ohio
(Cincinnati & Dayton markets), Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana.</span></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Excellence In Journalism Contest is a way for publishers, editors,
reporters, producers, freelancers, college and university students,
photographers and videographers to promote excellence in journalism by
showcasing work that informs and enlightens the public with professionalism,
truth, integrity and ethics.</span></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Entries must be submitted by a recognized news organization or individual
based in Greater Cincinnati or Greater Dayton. National or regional news
organizations may enter, but the contest will only accept submissions focusing
on people and events from those two regions.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ENTRY CATEGORIES</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Entries can be made in one or more of six categories:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ALL-MEDIA:</span></u></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">includes the four most
significant awards the chapter presents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">for work done in any medium in 2023.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">WRITTEN COMMUNICATION:</span></u></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">covers articles appearing in a
newspaper, magazine, in a blog or posted online during 2023.</span><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">BROADCAST
COMMUNICATION:</span></u></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">includes stories that were broadcast on a television station, radio station,
podcast or appeared online during 2023.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">FREELANCE:</span></u></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">focuses on freelance journalists
whose material in any medium appeared in Greater Cincinnati media outlets
during 2023.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY: </span></u></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">showcasing outstanding student work in 2023 in written and broadcast
communication.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">BEST OF SHOW:</span></u></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">includes the most outstanding work
in print, online or aired on broadcast outlets in 2023.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ALL MEDIA AWARDS</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">100 -- GERALD WHITE MEMORIAL AWARD <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This is the most prestigious award presented by the
Greater Cincinnati Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
(SPJ).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s named in memory of longtime
Cincinnati Enquirer investigative reporter Gerald White. The award is presented
to an individual or team for excellence in investigative reporting in any
medium.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Entries will be judged on enterprise, depth of research
and overall presentation. The entry <b>MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY </b>of
the circumstances that prompted the story, the hurdles overcome in completing
production and the impact generated by the story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">101 -- CAMILLA WARRICK AWARD <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This award honors journalists in any medium who use their
professional role to make an impact on people in the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's named for the late Cincinnati Enquirer
and Post reporter and columnist Camilla Warrick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Entries can be the work of an individual or team and <b>MUST
INCLUDE A WRITTEN STATEMENT</b> detailing the public service value of the
project and the overall impact of the work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">102 -- FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A free press is essential in a democracy. This award
honors an individual journalist or group of journalists in any medium going to
extraordinary lengths to protect the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The award recognizes excellence as journalists face
constant challenges from individuals or institutions trying to interrupt the
free flow of information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>A LETTER IS
REQUIRED</b> stating the background of the story and how challenges faced in
completing it were overcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">103 - OUTSTANDING NEW JOURNALIST </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-themecolor: text1;">This award recognizes
journalistic excellence shown by an individual who has worked five years or
fewer in the awards territory. The winner will be chosen based on a<b> REQUIRED</b>
</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOMINATING
LETTER</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-themecolor: text1;"> and a
portfolio of up to five pieces produced by the nominee.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">WRITTEN COMMUNICATION</span></u></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">104 – GENERAL ASSIGNMENT NEWS STORY </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This category focuses on outstanding coverage of a general
assignment news event by an individual or team: the basic day-to-day journalism
that keeps the public informed. Judges will consider the importance of the
story and the quality of the writing. Submit a single story for consideration
by the judges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">105 – EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, TRAIN
DERAILMENT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The freight train derailment on February 3,
2023, severely impacted the health and safety of East Palestine, Ohio, due to
its hazardous cargo. The disaster prompted multiple communities to produce
stories on rail safety, disaster preparedness and water quality. Submit up to six
stories covering the derailment, the response to it and the impact to a wide
range of communities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">106 – DAMAR HAMLIN CARDIAC ARREST COVERAGE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The sports world was stunned when Buffalo
Bills cornerback Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest during a Cincinnati
Bengals game. The collapse, his subsequent recovery, and the impact on cardiac
health around the country was substantial. Submit up to six stories which
demonstrate the depth and quality of coverage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">107 – OHIO BALLOT ISSUES REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ohioans voted in 2023 on two key issues. In
August, they decided against raising the threshold for constitutional
amendments to pass from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent. In November, they approved
Issue #1 on abortion and Issue #2 on recreational marijuana. Submit up to six
stories showing the depth of explaining the issue and reaction to the results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">108 - FEATURE STORY</span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Submit a single story of that goes beyond traditional
journalism to capture the human spirit. The entry could be a personality
profile or event coverage. Judges will consider clarity, creativity and the
topic’s impact on the community.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">109 - BEAT REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This award spotlights a reporter covering a single area
or topic on a daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Submit up to six articles for judges to consider in terms
of depth of coverage, clarity and reader understanding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">110 - HUMAN RIGHTS/MINORITY ISSUES
REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excellence in reporting on solutions for people living in
communities that are often under-covered. Submit a single story. Judges will
focus on clarity, outlining the issues involved and proposed solutions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">111 - GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY ISSUES REPORTING
</span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Outstanding reporting that focuses on solutions for
citizens dealing with important government and/or community issues. Submit a
single story. Judges will focus on clarity of explanation and an eye toward
solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">112 - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Original in-depth reporting on an issue with wide-ranging
community impact. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This reporting shows determination in obtaining
information that is not readily available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Submit a single story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">113 - USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-themecolor: text1;">This award recognizes a
reporter or reporters for producing important stories that only happened through
the acquisition of public records. Submit a single story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">114 – SERIES <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excellence by an individual or team in following
developments in a single story over an extended period-of-time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entry may include up to six segments.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">115 - BUSINESS/CONSUMER NEWS STORY</span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excellence in reporting by an individual or team on a
business topic or consumer issue that impacts a wide range of citizens. Submit
a single story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">116 - BUSINESS FEATURE/ANALYSIS/COLUMN </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">An in-depth look at how a business issue impacts
corporations, their employees and consumers. Submit a single story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">117 - EDUCATION REPORTING </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best reporting on important issues and trends in
education at the primary, secondary and collegiate level. Submit a single
story.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">118 - HEALTH/MEDICAL/SCIENCE/ENVIFONMENTAL
REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best reporting on health, medical, science and
environmental matters and their impact on citizens. Submit a single story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">119 – EDITORIAL </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best opinion/editorial articles representing a news
organization’s position on a topic or issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Entries may include up to six pieces. Judges will consider originality,
creativity and public interest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">120 - ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/CRITIQUE
</span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excellence in reporting on and/or critiquing music,
dance, theater and art. Submit a single story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">121 - SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Outstanding reporting on a sporting event and the
participants. Stories can focus on previews, games, personalities or opinion. Submit
a single story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">122 - MAGAZINE REPORTING </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Outstanding reporting on any topic appearing in a
regularly published magazine. Submit a single story for judges to consider.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">123 – MAGAZINE SPECIALIZED PUBLICATION </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Magazines often create specialized publications to
supplement their regularly scheduled editions. These focus on a specific topic,
community or area of interest. Submit up to three publications for judges to
consider.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">124 – PHOTO ESSAY/PHOTO SPREAD/PHOTO
GALLERY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Outstanding display of photographic work included in a
single or a double page spread on a single theme. or a gallery of photos
online. Work can be from newspapers, magazines or online. Submit a single entry
for judges to consider.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">BROADCAST COMMUNICATION</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">125 – GENERAL ASSIGNMENT NEWS STORY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Outstanding coverage of a single news event by an
individual. Submit one story on the topic. Judges will consider the importance
the story, clarity and the quality of the writing. Entry time limit: 10
minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">126 – EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, TRAIN
DERAILMENT <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The freight train derailment on February 3,
2023, severely impacted the health and safety of East Palestine, Ohio, due to
its hazardous cargo. The disaster prompted multiple communities to produce
stories on rail safety, disaster preparedness and water quality. Submit a
compilation of stories covering the derailment, the response to it and the
impact to a wide range of communities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">127 – DAMAR HAMLIN CARDIAC ARREST COVERAGE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The sports world was stunned when Buffalo
Bills cornerback Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest during a Cincinnati
Bengals game. The collapse, his subsequent recovery, and the impact on cardiac
health around the country was substantial. Submit a compilation of stories
which demonstrates the depth and quality of coverage. Time limit: 30 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">128 – OHIO BALLOT ISSUES COVERAGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ohioans voted in 2023 on two key societal
issues. In August, they decided against raising the threshold for
constitutional amendments to pass from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent. In
November, they approved Issue #1 on abortion and Issue #2 on recreational
marijuana. Submit a composite of not more than 15 minutes showing the depth of
explanation of issues to voters and reaction to the results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">129 - FEATURE STORY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Submit one story of reporting that goes beyond
traditional journalism to capture the human spirit. Judges will consider
clarity, creativity and the topic’s impact on the community. Entry time limit:
10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">130 - GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY ISSUES REPORTING
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Outstanding reporting that focuses on solutions for
citizens dealing with important government and/or community issues. Judges will
focus on clarity of explanation and an eye toward solutions. Entry time limit:
10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">131 - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING</span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Original in-depth reporting on an issue with wide-ranging
community impact. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This reporting shows determination in obtaining
information that is not readily available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Entry time limit: 15 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">132 - USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-themecolor: text1;">This award recognizes a
reporter or reporters for producing important stories that only happened through
the acquisition of public records. Entry time limit: 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">133 - HUMAN RIGHTS/MINORITY ISSUES
REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excellence in reporting on solutions for people living in
communities that are often under-covered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Judges will focus on clarity outlining the issues involved and proposed
solutions. Entry time limit: 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">134 - BUSINESS/CONSUMER REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excellence in reporting by an individual or team on a
business topic. Entry time limit: 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">135 - EDUCATION REPORTING<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best reporting on education at the primary, secondary and
collegiate level. Entry time limit: 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">136 – HEALTH/MEDICAL/SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTAL
REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best reporting on health, medical, science and
environmental matters and their impact on citizens. Entry time limit: 10
minutes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">137 -- SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Outstanding reporting about a sporting event and/or the
participants. Stories can focus on previews, games or matches, personalities or
opinion. Entry time limit: 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">138 – DOCUMENTARY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Production on a single topic with widespread community
interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remove commercials before
entering. Entry time limit: 60 minutes.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">FREELANCE REPORTING</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">139 – NEWS REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in news reporting by a freelance
journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth of the reporting, clarity
of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a video/audio clip no longer than
10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">140 – FEATURE REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in feature reporting by a
freelance journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth of the
reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a video/audio
clip no longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">141 – SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in sports news or sports feature
reporting by a freelance journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth
of the reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a
video/audio clip no longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">142 – BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in business and/or technology
reporting by a freelance journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth
of the reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a
video/audio clip no longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">143 – EDUCATION REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in education reporting by a
freelance journalist in any medium. Entries can be about elementary, secondary
or college/university topics. Judges will consider depth of the reporting,
clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a video/audio clip no
longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">144 – EDITORIAL OR COMMENTARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in editorial or commentary
material by a freelance journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth of
the reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a
video/audio clip no longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">145 – HEALTH/MEDICAL/SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTAL
REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in health/medical reporting by a
freelance journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth of the
reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a video/audio
clip no longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">146 – ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/CRITIQUE
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in arts/entertainment reporting by
a freelance journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth of the
reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a video/audio
clip no longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">147 – GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY ISSUES
REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in government/community issues
reporting by a freelance journalist in any medium. Judges will consider depth
of the reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Enter one story or a
video/audio clip no longer than 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY</span></u></b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">Entries can be work published or broadcast in 2023 through
student media outlets, while working as an intern in 2023 or produced as a
class project and presented to that class or other campus forums.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">148 - BEST STUDENT REPORTER - PRINT/ONLINE
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in news, feature or sports
reporting by a college or university student appearing in student media. Judges
will consider depth of the reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Entry
can contain up to three articles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">149 - BEST STUDENT REPORTER – BROADCASTING
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in news,
feature or sports reporting by a college or university student appearing in student
media. The package or newscasts can be designed for radio or television. Judges
will consider depth of the reporting, clarity of writing and accuracy. Entry
time limit: 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">150 - BEST STUDENT NEWS/SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
PORTFOLIO <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence by a college or university student
in news and sports photography. Submit up to 12 images for consideration.
Judges will consider creativity, clarity of idea and image impact.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">151 - BEST STUDENT NEWS/SPORTS VIDEOGRAPHY
REEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence by a college or
university student in videography of a news or sporting event. Judges will
consider creativity, clarity of idea and package/segment impact. Entry time
limit: 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">152 - BEST STUDENT
PODCAST </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence in a student produced podcast on
any topic. Entry time limit: include a sample of up to 30 minutes. Judges will
consider public interest on the topic and quality of production.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold;">153 - BEST STUDENT SPECIAL PROJECT <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Excellence of material produced for student
media by individuals or groups of students. Judges will consider reporting,
writing, photography, videography and production quality. These should be
student-generated and not part of an ongoing university-sponsored project. A
video project cannot be longer than 15 minutes.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">BEST OF SHOW</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">154 - BEST OVERALL WRITTEN REPORTER </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best overall reporter for a daily, weekly or monthly
newspaper, magazine or online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entry
can include up to six articles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">155 - BEST OVERALL BROADCAST REPORTER</span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A compilation of work in radio or television showing how
the reporter stands out from competitors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A composite may be entered. Entry time limit:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">156 – BEST TELEVISION NEWS/SPORTS/WEATHER
ANCHOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Anchor work that stands out from the competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A composite can be submitted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entry time limit:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">157 - BEST RADIO NEWS ANCHOR <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best radio news anchor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A composite may be submitted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Entry time limit: 15 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">158 -- BEST RADIO NEWSCAST OR NEWS PROGRAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best radio newscast or new program. A composite may be
submitted. Entry time limit: 30 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">159 - BEST PODCAST <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excellence in reporting/producing a news or sports themed
podcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entry can be a composite of
multiple podcasts or a single show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Entry time limit: 30 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">160 - BEST COLUMNIST/COMMENTATOR <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">For outstanding work in column writing or
commentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If writing, submit up to six
entries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If broadcast, the time limit
for a composite is 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">161-- BEST NEWSPAPER </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best overall daily, weekly or monthly newspaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entry includes newspapers from three separate
days in 2022.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">162 -- BEST MAGAZINE </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best overall regularly published magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entry can include up to three issues from
2022.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">163 -- BEST WEBSITE </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best website hosted by a newspaper, magazine, television
or radio station. Entry must include a link to the website.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">164 – BEST NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER PORTFOLIO <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best photography by a single photographer of news events
and their participants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entries can
include a maximum of 12 images. Judges will focus on creativity and image
quality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">165 – BEST SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER PORTFOLIO </span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best photography by a single photographer of sporting
events and their participants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entries
can include a maximum of 12 images. Judges will focus on creativity and image
quality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">166 – BEST VIDEOGRAPHER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Best videographer in news coverage that appeared on
television or online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please submit a
composite of work lasting no more than 15 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">167 - BEST OVERALL FREELANCE REPORTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">For outstanding work by an individual not directly
employed by a media company. The entry can include up to six reports on a
single topic or multiple topics or a broadcast composite of no more than 10
minutes.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 20pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GREATER CINCINNATI JOURNALISM HALL OF FAME</span></u></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 20pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nominations
are now being accepted for inclusion into the 2024 class of the Greater
Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
prestigious award recognizes a lifetime of journalistic achievement in
newspapers, magazines, radio, television, online or on other platforms</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nominating letter should list the
person’s credentials in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>media and
other pertinent information to help </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">in the
decision-making process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nominations
are due by March 15, 2024. Email them to Ginny McCabe, Cincinnati SPJ Pro
Chapter President, at </span><a href="mailto:ginnymccabe1@gmail.com"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ginnymccabe1@gmail.com</span></a><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If chosen by the selection committee,
nominees will be inducted during the Excellence In Journalism awards program in
June, 2024.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More than 100 individuals
have been inducted through the years.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 18pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EMIL DANSKER AWARD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE IN JOURNALISM</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nominations are now
being accepted for the Emil Dansker Award for Public Service In Journalism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The late Dr. Dansker
devoted more than 70 of his 90 years to journalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a reporter, writer, editor, professor,
mentor and volunteer all in service to the profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr. Dansker worked
at The Cincinnati Enquirer, Toledo Blade and other newspapers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He taught and mentored generations of
students at Bowling Green State University and Central State University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Co-founding the Greater Cincinnati
Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, he remained
active with the chapter for more than 50 years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This award honors an
individual who has demonstrated a dedication to public service in the
advancement of journalism in all aspects of their professional career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The honoree will embody the spirit and legacy
of Dr. Dansker.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nominations should
be e-mailed to Ginny McCabe, Greater Cincinnati SPJ Pro Chapter President, by
March 15, 2024, at </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:ginnymccabe1@gmail.com"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ginnymccabe1@gmail.com</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The award will be
presented during the annual Excellence In Journalism awards program and Greater
Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in June of 2024.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 22pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CONTEST RULES</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background: white; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All entries must have appeared
in print, online or on-air between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, in
Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati and Dayton markets), Northern Kentucky and
Southeastern Indiana. Student entries must have been viewed or read by a public
audience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Entries must be submitted by a
recognized news organization or individual based in Greater Cincinnati or
Greater Dayton. National or regional news organizations may enter, but the
contest will only accept submissions focusing on people and events from those
two regions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
entry deadline is 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15, 2024</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The contest coordinator reserves
the right and has the sole discretion to extend the deadline if needed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The contest coordinator, in
consultation with the Greater Cincinnati SPJ Pro Chapter Board, has the final
say on any questions or issues that arise regarding entries, awards or
processes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">All entry content must be
accessible through June 30, 2024. Entries that cannot be viewed by the judges
will be disqualified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If entries are password protected or behind a
paywall, the username and password information must be provided in the COMMENTS
section of your entry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Please test the login from
computers outside your office to make sure the login works. Entries that cannot
be viewed by judges will be disqualified</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your website requires a subscription after
a certain number of entries, please provide a login that will allow judges to
view all submissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If work samples
are not accessible, the entry will be disqualified.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Judging for the 2024 Excellence In Journalism Contest will be
done by SPJ members in good standing from the Oklahoma Professional Chapter of
the Society of Professional Journalists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> SPJ chapter leaders in Oklahoma
will select judges for each of the contest categories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Judging will be done on the BNC
platform.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <span lang="EN">Entries will be judged on overall excellence, service to the
community and contributions to the public’s understanding of issues and events.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> The judges may also include in their reviews the depth of research,
difficulty in obtaining information and the quality of the presentation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Judges have the option of selecting a winner and two finalists in an
individual category.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> If, in the opinion of the judges, none of the entries in a given category
meets the standards set for that category, no award will be issued.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Judges may reject entries that do not conform with contest rules.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Judges WILL provide written comments regarding the winning entry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Judges have the option of providing written comments for finalists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">20.</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> THE DECISIONS OF ALL JUDGES ARE FINAL.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">21.</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Entrants be notified by email in early June 2024, whether they have been
judged as a winner or finalist. However, the actual placings won’t be revealed
until the Excellence In Journalism Awards Celebration in mid-June of 2024. This
will be held in conjunction with the induction ceremony for the newest members
of the Greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">HERE’S HOW TO ENTER</span></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">All entries must be submitted online using <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">the web-based BNC program.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://betternewspapercontest.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">http://betternewspapercontest.com</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Greater Cincinnati SPJ Excellence In Journalism</span></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BNC is optimized to use the Google Chrome
browser and Firefox for PC and Safari browser (Apple Mac).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Please use recent
versions to make entering easier.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Log on to “</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://betternewspapercontest.com/" target="_blank"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">betternewspapercontest.com</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2) Click "Open Call Login" at the top of
the page</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">3)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Look for "Create Your Open Call Account Here"
and fill out the requested information, then press "submit"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">4) A validation email will be sent to you
that you will need to click the link in to validate your account</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">5) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
validating your account, log into your account via the “Open Call Login” page
and navigate to the “My Contests” page</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">6)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Look for the “Greater Cincinnati SPJ Excellence In
Journalism” contest in the “Available Contests” section & check the box
next to the contest name</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">7) Navigate to “Manage Entries” page - click
"Submit Entry " on left side</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">8)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Select appropriate category by number</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">9)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Read the category note describing what is expected of
each entry</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">10)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In box labeled “Who
should be credited for this entry” enter the names of those responsible for the
entry and click “submit." You can enter three names, but anything
above that enter "staff"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">11)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">To upload digital files
and attachments, follow the instructions indicated</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">12)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "New",serif; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">To add web/audio/video
content, copy and paste the content’s URL address into the provided website URL
field. Note -- there is a 20MB limit on file size. Here are examples of
free streaming content websites where you can upload audio and video content:</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">
--AUDIO – </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.kiwi6.com/" target="_blank"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">www.kiwi6.com</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> or </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.tindeck.com/" target="_blank"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">www.tindeck.com</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">
--VIDEO – </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">www.youtube.com</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> or </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">www.vimeo.com</span></a></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If you have questions or problems click on<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Help & Support” atop of the BNC website</span></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">OR: CONTACT CONTEST COORDINATOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Tom McKee – </span></b><a href="mailto:tmckee9@yahoo.com"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">tmckee9@yahoo.com</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> – (513) 608-1782</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ENTRY FEES</span></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">SPJ Members<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">$25.00 for each
entry</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Non-Members<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">$35.00 for each
entry</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">College/University Students<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">No fee</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Paying through PayPal</span></b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When all entries are submitted, log onto your
account<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Navigate to the “Manage Entries” page<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Click “Calculate Entry Fees” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Follow the instructions complete the transaction</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Becoming an SPJ
member is easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply sign up at
spj.org.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many ways to join
with payment options.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professional<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">You spend more than half of your time working as a
journalist <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">or journalism educator. </span><a href="https://www.spj.org/joinapp.asp"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$78.75 for 1 year.</span></b></a></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Retired<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">You are retired and 62 or older.<span style="color: #0070c0;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.spj.org/joinapp.asp"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$39.50 for 1 year.</span></b></a></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lifetime<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enjoy a lifetime membership in SPJ. Local chapter dues not
included. </span><a href="https://www.spj.org/joinapp.asp"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$1,000.</span></b></a><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"> </span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Please note:</span></b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Monthly payment
option is not available for lifetime memberships.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Household<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">You share living quarters with an existing SPJ professional
member. </span><a href="https://www.spj.org/joinapp.asp"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$39.50 for 1 year.</span></b></a></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Post Grad<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Through three years after college graduation. </span><a href="https://www.spj.org/joinapp.asp"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$39.50 for 1 year.</span></b></a><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Any newly joining Post Grad member, including current <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">SPJ college members that are graduating, can sign up
today <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">and receive three years for just $78.75.</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">College Student<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Any collegiate student.<span style="color: #0070c0;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.spj.org/joinapp.asp"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$39.50 for 1 year.</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"> </span><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">If
you are a freshman <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">or sophomore, you can join today for just $105 and be <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontItalic; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">covered for the life of your college years.</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Associate (SPJ
Supporter)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">You support efforts to protect the First Amendment, freedom
of press, media credibility and the public’s access to information. Or you are
a high school student with an interest in journalism, potentially as a career
path. </span><a href="https://www.spj.org/joinapp.asp"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFontBold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$21.00 for 1 year.</span></b></a></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Designate the Greater Cincinnati Pro Chapter as the
chapter you want to join. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The chapter has no local dues.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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padding-top: 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1757420750mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; width: 100%;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv1757420750mcnTextContent" style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;">Ohio’s Best Journalism contest will begin accepting submissions for 2024 (for work performed in 2023) beginning today. We’re excited that we’re launching our contest early again this year to give journalists, editors, producers, students, etc., more time to submit entries for the coming year. We can’t wait to celebrate the great work you continue to do.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />Many thanks to all of you for continuing to support our contest – and Ohio journalism. We couldn’t be the top statewide journalism contest in Ohio without you. We’re excited to hear from you and learn about the exciting work everyone produced in 2023.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />Proceeds from your submissions are used to support student journalism scholarship programs (high school and college) at the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus pro SPJ chapters, as well as to help us provide programming for students and professional journalists throughout the state.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />Our annual statewide contest is presented collaboratively by the Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland Pro Chapters of The Society of Professional Journalists and honors print, broadcast, digital, trade, freelance and college journalists in Ohio for their best work during 2023. An important distinction: <u style="outline: none !important;">Our contest is the only Ohio competition that honors journalists who fulfill the SPJ mission: defense of the First Amendment, support of literacy, resistance to censorship, advocacy for openness of public records and meetings, media self-criticism and community service. </u><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />Please remember to submit entries for the Emil Dansker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism, which is the top honor our contest presents. It was created last year in honor of Emil, one of the founders of the Cincinnati SPJ Chapter and a longtime journalist, professor and mentor to countless journalists and students. He was adviser to the BG News at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for many years, and also taught at The University of Cincinnati and Xavier University.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />The Outstanding Achievement Award will be presented to one individual annually for their hard work, achievements, leadership and contributions to the journalism profession. Journalism professors, publishers, broadcast general managers and editors and reporters, as well as other journalism business professionals from all media segments, are invited to apply.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />Entries will be judged by panel of judges from the yet-to-be named SPJ chapter/contest participating in our 2024 judging swap. Click here to submit entries for the <a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=7af60516e6&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Outstanding Achievement Award.</a><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />A couple of other highlights for 2024: We have added newsletter and podcast categories in the Digital Media category to in response to requests from media and to acknowledge to these growing forms of media.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=152eada769&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ready to submit to this year’s contest?</a> If you already have submitted in the past, please use the same login information. A list of categories and other contest information (winners’ list from 2023, videos of some of our best of show winners and 2023 contest booklet) can be found on our <a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=6ff1a1c561&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">competition website.</a> <br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />A reminder to the growing number of freelance journalists in our profession: Our contest features numerous freelance categories, which were combined with Digital Media last year. <a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=75e3e3700b&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Click here to view Digital Media/Freelance categories.</a> View the “Rules” and “Help” tabs in the header of the contest home page for complete directions and explanations to help you submit entries.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><span style="color: #024890; outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;"><span style="background-color: lightblue; outline: none !important;">The deadline for entries is midnight Monday, March 4, 2024.</span></strong></span><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />As in previous years, journalists who work for newspaper, magazine, radio, television, trade, digital and college media in Ohio and adjacent states that have significant reach into Ohio are eligible to submit entries. Freelance journalists, who are Ohio residents, are eligible, regardless of where their work is published.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />Entrants need not be members of the Society of Professional Journalists. Submitted work must have been published or broadcast in 2023. All websites and links for digital submissions must remain active throughout 2024.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><strong style="outline: none !important;">Please take note of the following when submitting entries:</strong></p><ul style="outline: none !important;"><li style="outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">If you submit an entry that requires a password-protected URL to be accessed, there is a specific field for you to submit the user name/password information for judges. <u style="outline: none !important;">Please remember to do this as it keeps the judging process moving along efficiently.</u></strong></li><li style="outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">There is a field asking whose name(s) should appear on any award, as well as the name of the media outlet, should your entry receive an award. Thank you for paying close attention to this field and entering the information correctly. This will help avoid any errors when awards are created.</strong></li><li style="outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">Please be sure to submit your entry in the correct category. Large print categories are reserved for publications with circulation of 60,000 and higher; small print categories are reserved for publications with circulation of less than 60,000.</strong></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #024890; outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">FEES: </strong></span>For the first time in many years, we are raising our fees per entry by $2 to cover rising costs associated with running the contest. Thank you for your understanding. Fees will increase to $27 per submission for SPJ members, up from $25, and $32 for non-SPJ members, up from $30. College students will pay a $12 entry fee for writing of news, feature, sports and opinion entries. College newspapers may enter the best college newspaper category for free. There is a $5 discount per entry for work by SPJ members. Not an SPJ member? Join here and save. <a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=4a42aae0f5&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.spj.org/join.asp</a><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><span style="color: #024890; outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">SPREAD THE WORD: </strong></span>Please forward this message to anyone you think would like to participate in Ohio’s Best Journalism contest! Our contest portal, OpenWater, makes it easy to share the contest site with your colleagues and friends. Look for the social media icons (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) on the left side of the contest site landing page. <a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=6a74268781&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">link here.</a><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />We’re always trying to increase submissions to our contest and add newcomers to our database for contest information and updates. If you want to add the contact information of your colleagues and friends, who want to be added to our elist, or if they want to add themselves, here is the <a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=bea09910d2&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">link.</a><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />If you have any questions, please email our contest administrator, Sarah Mills Bacha, at <a href="mailto:contact@ohiospjawards.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; font-weight: bold; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:contact@ohiospjawards.org">contact@ohiospjawards.org</a> or please visit our website – <a href="https://ohiospjawards.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a442e09d65b2510c556d865&id=1f40e6ed2d&e=d4599bc53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004890; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="3301" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7rYmAcZxwG2Fkm6FSWvE9jN7cEuxLM8LGik7E8WYJ-9dzTP9GBiPwF2mgZ265gTABl8tipvHSc4RHMKEUkF0HrVY5XJ_i2QYcxGGT7VsWY41PlAPQIsWUku6L9ZAmJc9n_QpyairDxTe_vra7xvu9rY6RJtrozNCmcK7EHOqk3aNPzCo23rSsadoQ" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">The Register is looking for a full-time reporter to help us cover Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana, and Harrison, Ohio. Lots of opportunities to do storytelling. Perfect for someone who wants to start their journalism career, or someone who misses the news business. This is a good job to learn community journalism and to gain experience writing about many subjects, including sports. Knowledge of journalistic writing is preferred. Knowledge of pagination, photography, and </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #385898; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">online and social media skills are pluses. We will consider someone with no experience. Hours are varied from week to week, some work from home is acceptable. Send a resume and clips if you have them to <a href="mailto:memral@registerpublications.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #196ad4;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:memral@registerpublications.com">memral@registerpublicaitions.com</a>.</span><p></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-58516410023396476072023-06-26T04:24:00.001-07:002023-08-03T04:40:36.762-07:00Cincy EIJ/HOF Ceremony - Highlights in Photos <p><br /></p><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none !important;"><br style="outline: none !important;" /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none !important;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM CONTEST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">WINNERS & FINALISTS</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Greater Cincinnati Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists is pleased to announce the winners and finalists in the 2023
Excellence In Journalism Contest. We thank the members of SPJ Hawaii for their
work in judging the entries.</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ALL MEDIA</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GERALD
WHITE MEMORIAL AWARD <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Fallout”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Duane Pohlman <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">WKRC-TV</span><span style="color: #212121; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">There
was just the one entry in this prestigious category. But even if it were not
the only entry, this judge is confident it would have won hands-down anyway.
Talk about in-depth research that makes a difference, leading to threats from
uncooperative government officials and praise from members of Congress. Talk
about "feet on the street" -- this reporter, wearing full protective
gear, literally crawled up into a family's attic where radioactive dust was
suspected and collected samples to be analyzed. An independent lab confirmed
the samples contained high levels of enriched uranium. Investigative reporter
Duane Pohlman continued the investigation, combing through records and
interviewing experts. In the time-honored tradition of a true investigative
report, WKRC-TV overcame obstacles thrown up by secretive government agencies
to bring the story to light. The on-camera accounts by affected individuals
brings drama and immediacy to the story. Bravo!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CAMILLA
WARRICK AWARD</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WINNER:</b>
“The Case for Cities”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS:</b> David Holthaus & Natalie Grilli<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA
OUTLET:</b> Soapbox Media <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> “</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Findlay Market nonprofit turnaround; College Hill residents try to make
their neighborhood look good; Lower Price Hill takes an environmentally injured
area and engages residents in green resiliency to make a climate safe
community; then there is a nonprofit trying homesteading in Price Hill as a way
to come up with affordable housing; and attacking high rates of black infant
deaths, all against the backdrop of the views and criticisms of cities. A
well-crafted endeavor that was almost like a think-tank report with a lot of
heart.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Round
The Corner: Lindenwald”<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Tana
Weingartner <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Int</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">eresting coverage of the underreported
area of Lindenwald in Hamilton. It was interesting to hear the hopes for the
former manufacturing area. I'm sure WVXU got a lot more listeners from these
reports.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Low-Income
Residents Left Out In The Cold”<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Haley
Parnell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>LINK nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Housing uncertainty in Northern Kentucky. No community likes
it, but some people are helping out. Good reporting on the problem.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Pike County Court Access”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> The Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The Enquirer takes its responsibility to
protect the First Amendment seriously. This time it was a judge telling news
photographers what evidence the media can take photos of -- something that
raises questions of constitutionality. It was one of 12 information cases the
Enquirer has been pursuing to shine a light on government action. Thank you for
doing this.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">OUTSTANDING NEW JOURNALIST <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Outstanding New Journalist Award: Haley Parnell” </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT:</b> Haley Parnell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LINK nky</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Wow, I have to remember her name -- Haley Parnell. I'm sure
that name will adorn a major story in a top publication one day. LINK nky was
lucky to find Haley Parnell. She is a dynamo covering all kinds of stories and
digging in no matter the complexity. She has a way of getting information that
personalizes the story. I'm sure people in Northern Kentucky are noticing.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">WRITTEN COMMUNICATION</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">NEWS STORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A Greater Cincinnati Village Struggles To Pay Police”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT:</b> Scott Wartman <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BREAKING NEWS/DEADLINE COVERAGE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Princeton School Shooting Hoax”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS:</b> Cameron Knight, Quinlan
Bentley, Victoria Moorwood & Cheryl Vari<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S
COMMENT:</b> “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">It can be as
important to dispel fake information. The Enquirer did not rely on police radio
reports and just noted a police presence at Princeton High School. The Enquirer
dispatched a reporter who lived close to the school to the scene and soon
reported that there was no active shooting going on at the school. Once
confirmed, the story posted by the Enquirer was the first to report that there
was no gun violence at the school. Good, quick work. Succinct, well-written,
compelling.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">FEATURE STORY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Taken: The Harrowing Tale of
Two Americans Kidnapped Overseas”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b>Keith BieryGolick<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Cincinnati’s
Golden Boys & Girls”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Jaclyn
Youhana Garver <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Uncommon
Thread”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Andy
Brownfield<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Business Courier<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEAT REPORTING <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Portfolio of Keith Pandolfi”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT:</b> Keith Pandolfi <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Keith Pandolfi covers what Cincinnati
residents eat like the ‘back of his spoon.’ The obituary on the man regarded as
the city's best chef was excellent. Keep feeding readers; they're loving it.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>FINALIST: </b>“Randy
Tucker, Real Estate Reporting”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b> Randy
Tucker <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b> The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Every paper needs a Randy Tucker, who can spot trends in
rents, house values, types of purchases, and even investor trends of wanting to
turn more people into renters. He even covers Dave Chapelle helping the
trans-community. Tucker knows his job.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">FINALIST: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Startup/Technology Reporting: Liz
Engel”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Liz Engel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUDGE’S
COMMENT:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <span style="background: white;">“</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">If you need someone to explain start-up technology, get Liz Engel. She
covers this area well and writes it so we can all understand.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">TEAM COVERAGE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“The Day Roe v. Wade Fell In
Ohio”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“The day the court decision came in: Roe
v. Wade falls. The Enquirer did a good job of showing the impact now and in the
future. And even its potential impact on privacy and gay marriage. Good job of
a team working with many moving parts.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>FINALIST: </b>LINK nky 2022 Election Coverage For Northern
Kentucky”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mark Payne, Haley
Parnell, Kenton Hornbeck, Michael Monks, Kaitlin Gebby, Lacy Starling, Mark
Collier, Maggy McDonel, Meghan Goth, Nathan Granger, Alecia Ricker, Grace
Tierney, Jason Finnell & Garin Pirnia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> LINK nky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUDGE’S
COMMENT:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <span style="background: white;">“</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Good election coverage in Northern Kentucky, including some notable
stories like the Pendleton County mayor's race decided by a coin flip. Talk
about each vote counting.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">SOCIAL/CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Portfolio of Cameron Knight”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT:</b> Cameron Knight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;">Wide range of law enforcement activities. Arresting gays
linking up and having sex in a park; a mother charged with the death of
1-month-old by sleeping in same bed with the baby. A laudable effort of getting
the homeless off the streets. There also was a novel way of showing the effect
of the police shortage. Cameron Knight went through records and found that some
large areas had only one officer patrolling. Different ways of looking at
routine stories.”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">HUMAN RIGHTS/MINORITY ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Segregated Cincinnati”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dan Horn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The Enquirer made great use of census
data to report on the segregation of Cincinnati. It isn't as simple as black
and white. For example, the more affordable housing on the West Side makes it
more diverse than the East Side. Good job on using census data to tell
Cincinnati residents more about their city.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
FINALIST: </b>“What We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Carrie
Blackmore Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Carrie Blackmore Smith gives the reader a firsthand view of
gentrification. After she became a homeowner and landlord, she learned that she
was viewed as the outsider. She also learned that the influx of wealthier
residents led to fewer units to rent to low-income residents. On one hand,
officials view it as good, but longtime residents see it otherwise. A very different
perspective on the subject.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Affordable
Housing In Northern Kentucky Is Everyone’s Problem: It Could Happen To Anyone”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Meghan
Goth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>LINK
nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Good piece about the fight to get more affordable housing in
Northern Kentucky.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY ISSUES REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“2,400 Homeowners Did What
Cincinnati Asked. It Will Cost Them Thousands”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patricia Gallagher Newberry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">What a screw job! Some 2,400 homeowners
dutifully follow city orders and hire contractors to remove lead pipes, but
they won't be reimbursed for their efforts as other homeowners will be. It
doesn't seem fair, but we are dealing with government. I hope there is follow
up on this subject. Good report.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">ELECTION ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Redistricting Produced
Unconstitutional Maps. What’s Next?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jessie Balmert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="background: white;">Clear reporting on the
redistricting map controversy. No one was penalized for not following the
rules. The Enquirer spells out the issue in what can be a very confusing matter
for many readers. Good job.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b>FINALIST: </b>“Win,
Lose, Draw: Inside Ohio’s Redistricting Battle”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jim DeBrosse <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Good piece on the redistricting fight in Ohio.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING</span></b></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Resign: How Jason Osborne’s
Tenure As Miami Provost Came To An End”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sean Scott & Luke Macy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 105.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Miami Student</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S
COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“First-rate planning
and persistence by the Miami Student. This work would put professionals to
shame. The provost resigned during an assessment of a survey about his three
years at Miami University. The survey was never released, but the Miami Student
used public records law to get it released. It showed how unpopular the provost
was. Top-flight work!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Pure
Romance: Supportive Sisterhood Or Risky MLM?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alexander Coolidge <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>The Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“The popular Pure Romance could be a multi-level marketing
scheme. The Enquirer reports on what the pitfalls might be. Good job.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“NKU
Faculty Senate President On Vaidya’s Departure, Budget Woes: They’re
Connected.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mark Payne <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>LINK nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“When Ashish Vaidya stepped down from the presidency of
Northern Kentucky University, the official word was that it wasn't due to the
budget deficit. Not true, says the faculty senate. Good job of uncovering the
full picture.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Ohio’s Big-City Mayors Kept
Active Text Message Commentary”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b>Jessie Balmert <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: “</b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">What a treasure
trove of political observations. It's not every day you can get the honest
comments from the mouths of politicians, but the Enquirer did by getting hold
of text messages among six Democratic mayors. The key is whether anyone paid
attention or was it seen as Democrats harping at Republicans?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Rating
The Burbs 2022”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Bill
Ferguson, Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincy
Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">JUD<b>GE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Great job of taking public records and telling people where
the top burbs are in the Cincinnati area. The numbers are confined to short
text and graphics and don't weigh down the rich stories. A good explainer of
how you used the data.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">CONTINUING<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>COVERAGE OR SERIES<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“P.G. Sittenfeld Trial”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sharon Coolidge & Kevin Grasha <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“P.G. Sittenfeld, the man widely
regarded as the candidate destined to become Cincinnati's next mayor, is
prosecuted for bribery. Excellent coverage of the trial and what's next. The
guilty verdict would spell the end of his political career.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Pike
County Murder Trial”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patricia Gallagher Newberry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Good coverage of the trial in the 2016 murder of eight
people in Pike County. The motive was some personal difference between the
suspects and the family involving the son one of the suspects had with a member
of the victims' family. It was hard to get perspective on this case perhaps because
of the complexity of the case and the limit on the number of stories for the
entry for such a long trial. But the Enquirer covered it in detail.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“The
Theatrics of the Kenton County Family Court Judge Race”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Meghan Goth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>LINK
nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“The dustup over the suspended license of a family court
judge candidate dogged the election, but in the end the candidate came in third
far behind his two other opponents. Going in and out of court and social media
comments highlighted the race. Good folo on the issue.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BUSINESS/CONSUMER NEWS REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Lighting The Way For
Inclusion”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gail Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Realm <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“A comprehensive look at venture capital
for local minority businesses. While very detailed and well-documented, plenty
of voices make the article readable as well as informative. Good job tackling
this complex issue.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“How
Real Estate Investors Are Changing Cincinnati”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dan Horn & Randy Tucker <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“How big investors are changing the face of a middle-class
neighborhood by scooping up houses for rentals. Combining homeowners' points of
view with solid data make this story a winner.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Plum
Choice: Kroger Agrees To Acquire Albertsons”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Steve Watkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Business Courier<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Lots of solid details in this easy-to-read article about the
proposed merger of two grocery giants with the purchase of Albertsons by
Cincinnati-based Kroger.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BUSINESS FEATURE/ANALYSIS/COLUMN</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“A Kroger Worker Killed
Himself. Now His Family Is Suing, Testing The ‘Suicide Rule’”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alexander Coolidge <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“This is not your
typical business story. This well-balanced article with an easy-reading
narrative style employs lots of voices and details to lay out the shocking tale
of a grocery worker's suicide, sensitively touching on allegations of bullying,
sexual harassment, stalking and unsafe work environment. Well done!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Institutional
Investors Scoop Up Thousands of Greater Cincinnati Homes”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chris Wetterich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Lots of data points and a nice map help define this
fact-rich article about institutional investors scooping up affordable housing
options for the community. Very readable and balanced despite the dense subject
matter.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“How An
Urban Market Transformed Neighborhood”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus & Natalie Grilli<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Soapbox
Media <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Feed them and they will come. This
description of how revitalization of an urban market brought shoppers downtown again
is lovely and packed with examples and voices.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">EDUCATION REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“A Year In First Grade: How
School Has Changed After The Pandemic”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b>Madeline Mitchell &
Amanda Rossmann<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The </span>Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S
COMMENT:</b> “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">What a great idea
for a story: spending a lot of time with first-graders during the pandemic and
their return to in-class learning. This shows the reader rather than taking
various persons' secondhand accounts or complaints. Kudos to the Enquirer.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">FINALIST: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Show Them The Money”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Michele Day <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JU<b>DGE’S
COMMENT: </b>“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The puppet
Kevin gives life to teaching kids about economics. You add inspiration from
rappers, and WCET is teaching the very basics of everyday money concepts to
young kids. Nice job, Cincinnati Magazine.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">FINALIST: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“A Deep Dive Into HB9 and NKY’s Pilot
Charter School”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mark Payne <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">LINK nky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JU<b>DGE’S
COMMENT:</b></span> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Fear and
trepidation over establishing pilot charter school projects in Northern
Kentucky. Even with passage of a funding bill, it doesn't sound like whither
they go on this. Good job laying out the questions.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">CHILD/YOUTH/TEEN ISSUES REPORTING</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Cincinnati Area Kids Are
Struggling With Mental Health”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Madeline Mitchell & </span>Terry DeMio<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The </span>Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">A lot of signs are showing that kids are suffering from
mental health problems. Madeline Mitchell and Terry DeMio alert Cincinnati on
what to do. The sidebar is just what the doctor ordered: a list and explanation
of possible symptoms of mental problems in youngsters. Great job.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Parents
Desperate To Find Baby Formula May Face Six to Eight Weeks Before Shelves Are
Restocked”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Haley
Parnell <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>LINK
nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Good react on the shortage of infant formula and the
full-fledged scurrying to find it. Also showed the alternatives.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">HEALTH/MEDICAL REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Black Americans Were Targeted
By Cigarette Makers. Will They Benefit From Ban On Menthols?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b>Brooks Sutherland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
</span>Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Good piece on how cigarette makers targeted Black males in
the marketing of menthol cigarettes. Now health experts hope the FDA ban on
menthol cigarettes will help save Black lives. The Enquirer coupled this with
CDC data showing that minorities made up a majority of the adult smokers in
some neighborhoods. This is old-fashioned journalism: showing what a regulation
and data mean to the readers.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">ENVIRONMENTAL/SCIENCE REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Climate Change Is Just
Getting Warmed Up”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b>John Stowell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“This piece covers a lot of ground and
includes a lot of detail without overwhelming the reader. Well-written and
sourced.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Rumpke
Landfill Expansion In Southwest Ohio Leads To Controversy”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Keith
BieryGolick <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT</b>: <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“A descriptive and comprehensive piece.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“A
Neighborhood Model To Fight Climate Change”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus & Natalie Grilli</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Soapbox
Media<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">EDITORIAL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Portfolio of Kevin Aldridge”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b>Kevin Aldridge <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“The Cincinnati
Enquirer doesn't shy away from major issues: the conviction of the man who
would be mayor, the attack on the FBI building and cash bail versus holding
suspects on the basis of public safety. Some good common sense anchors all of
the editorials.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Another View” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Don Mooney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Cincy Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Don Mooney has an interesting view on things: like the
teacher shortage, national politics playing in local elections and new transit
options.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>WINNER:</b>
“The Pinball Wizards Among Us”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Laurie Pike <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Great scene-setting and characters, has all the right stuff
for a city magazine feature, from you-are-there details to historical
perspective.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati’s Gee Horton Found Himself An
Accidental Artist” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Sharon Coolidge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Great details add up to a full portrait of
the artist.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Giving Their Regards To Broadway”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Rick Pender<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Solid piece that captures a moment in
time for the CCM program and for America's musical theatre tradition.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT CRITIQUE</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Blink Lights Festival In Cincinnati Continues Through Weekend”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Journal-News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“This
is probably the one review that families in the Cincinnati area read to see
whether they want to drive through the wonderment of lights. Good way of
letting folks know what they can look forward to.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Chris Henry Was A Bengals Legend. His Sons Are Talented Too”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scott Springer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: “</b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">These
kinds of stories don't happen very often, but when they do, they speak a lot
about the humanity from the biggest stage in American sports. Coach Jones just
carries on his friend's and teammate's legacy to see that the friend's sons
become great football players. Don't look for 'Win one for the Gipper' quotes
here. This is done from the heart. It doesn't get much better than that.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Time To Win Is Now”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Steve Watkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Good look at coming contract talks for
the biggest star in Cincinnati sports: Joe Burrow. No doubt the Bengals want to
keep him, but the question is how. Burrow could ask for $40 million to $50
million a year, the range that the top NFL quarterbacks get. In making a
multiyear deal, the owners would have to put $100 million in escrow. Then there
are a couple young rising stars who will need pay raises. No wonder this story
is printed in a business magazine.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Joey Votto Is The Greatest Reds Player of
All Time”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chad Dotson <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Extremely readable profile of Joey
Votto, the Reds' first baseman who has surpassed Reds' greats in various
Bench-marks. I like this guy.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">CINCINNATI BENGALS SUPER BOWL COVEAGE </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Enquirer Bengals Coverage”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Good day-after story, then the alumni
say they're not losers anymore, the longtime Bengals now on the opposing team
and the emotions that run through; Cincy gets an economic boost even though it
loses Super Bowl; Bengals theme song starts on Tik Tok; SuperFan Marsha Watts
hopes for less anxiety than what she had been used to. Really good collection
of stories. Nothing like a winning football team to rejuvenate everyone and
covera</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">MAGAZINE REPORTING</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“When War Hits Home”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">John Stowell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Very powerful narrative, sharing the
story of war far away and linking it back to the sister city and very basic
human connections. The details toggling back and forth from the destruction and
strife of war, the modern connection, the baseball all build the story. And the
call to action showing how readers can help provide another level of powerful
local journalism. Well done!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Bringing Ben Dombar Back To Life”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Linda Vaccariello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“This deep dive into the renovation of a truly unique house
reads almost like a novel, smoothly inviting us into the hexagonal house and
the process of restoring it. The style brings the more prosaic details to life
while telling the story through the eyes of the owner/preservationist informed
by the vision of the late architect. The interview with the architect’s
daughter further enhances the piece. This makes me want to search for more info
and an exterior shot of the house.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Just Call Us Kin-cinnati”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Laurie Pike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Interesting story about the Travelers,
told through archives, interviews and an unnamed source, because the members
prefer to remain private. The original reporting and the very visible cemetery
displays help to fill in some of the blanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">MAGAZINE COVER DESIGN</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati Magazine Covers”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brittany Dexter & Cincinnati Magazine Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Great covers all around. It showcases the skills of the staff
as a designer, as an artist and as a sculptor (if the pumpkin was made by the
same person).”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">MAGAZINE SPECIALIZED PUBLICATIONS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati Gives”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aiesha Little, Emi Villavicencio & Cincinnati Magazine Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Beautifully
designed and clearly written. Everything about this special publication is inviting
and informative. Made me wonder how a similar effort would look for our
community.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>FINALIST:</b> “Cincy Magazine Custom Publications”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Corinne Minard & Cincy Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincy Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Comprehensive mix of special pubs: Bengals, Adams County and
Middletown.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Cincinnati Schools Guide”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Amanda Boyd Walters & Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Well-done special publication with some fun design choices
and reader-friendly pieces.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">NEWSPAPER PAGE ONE DEIGN </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati Business Courier Page One Designs”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">John Lauer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“All great Page One covers.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER PORTFOLIO</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Corrie Schaffeld 2022, Best Of ”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Corrie Schaffeld <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">A strong set of images that are all well-composed, and either
well-lit artificially or very strategically executed if available light.
Portraits are expressive and allow readers to connect to the subject, and from
low light photography to artificially-lit photography, demonstrate technical
proficiency. I suspect the photographer had to put in a lot of effort to be in
the right place at the right time to capture these moments. Great job!”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Liz Dufour Body of Work”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Liz Dufour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“A strong set of images that immediately allows readers to
experience the emotions present in the moments these images were captured.
Composition is solid and the effective use of depth of field helps draw
readers' attention to where it needs to be, while telling a story in the background.
A very solid effort!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER PORTFOLIO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Kareem Elgazzar Body of Work”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kareem Elgazzar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">A great set of sports photos! Kareem did a great job capturing
the decisive moments, as well as the emotional intensity of the athletes in
those moments.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>FINALIST:</b> “Corrie Schaffeld Cincinnati Business
Courier”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Corrie Schaffeld<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Well-composed and interesting.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">PHOTO SPREAD/PHOTO ESSAY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A Day In Our Lives (24 Hours In 24 Images)”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brittany Dexter, Jen Kawanari, Emi Villavicencio & John Fox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">A diverse, vibrant set of photos that showcases 24 hours of
life in Cincinnati. I love how the piece incorporates work from such a large
group of photographers, yet still feels like a cohesive set of images. Good job
not just on the many photographers' parts but also the art team that managed to
put this all together the way that they did.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Friday At The LPGA, From Dawn To Dusk”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Albert Cesare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“This one is almost exactly the opposite of the winning
piece. Rather than daily life in an entire city, it focuses on 24 hours at an
LPGA tournament in Cincinnati. Rather than a different photographer for each
image, this was the work of just one person. Bravo on the excellent captioning,
and the frames were a great, detailed set of images documenting the tournament.
Great work bringing a diversity of perspectives from the same event!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">NEWSPAPER SPECIAL SECTION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Enquirer Super Bowl Special”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Wow, such comprehensive coverage; even
fans who gave up on the Bengals. What detailed background and why the Bengals
are where they are. Cincinnati no longer is a loser. The message is backed up
with stellar coverage. I could see people laying this out in front of the TV.
It is a souvenir edition.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">WEBSITE DESIGN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“cincinnati.com”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">This website is well-designed, airy and
light. It is very well-sectioned off to ease the use by readers. Some of the
ads are confined to the far right side and don't get mixed in with news until
very low on the front page. The page uses a cookie control tool to control
advertiser use of readers' browsing activity.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Cincinnati Business Courier Website”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “CincinnatiMagazine.com”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sam Rosenstiel, Kane Mitten, Amanda Boyd
Walters, Logan Case & Cincinnati Magazine Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">BROADCAST COMMUNICATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">NEWS STORY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“’We Don’t Have Anywhere To Go.’
Residents Deal With Flooding In Hartwell Apartments”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Madeline Ottilie & Paul Weeden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">This was a good
visual story and included investigative elements.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Goshen Residents Pick Up The Pieces After
EF2 Tornado”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Madeline Ottilie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S CONMMENT:</b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Very
well-done coverage of a tornado and the impact it has on people.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Ukrainian Bishop With Sons On Front Lines
Shares Realities of War”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall & Holland Rains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S CONMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Very powerful story and a good way to connect a big world
story to a local community.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEATURE STORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Meet The 6-Year-Old Girl Who Plays Tackle Football
In Fairfield”</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Rae Hines & Madeline Ottilie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUDGE’S COMMENT</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Excellent reporting and videography in a
story that shows why this little girl is bound to break many more glass ceilings.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “I Just Like Nice Words”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ken Brown & Payton Del Bradley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S CONMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Covering education can often overlook
the social and emotional components of learning that are more important now
than ever. This story makes that the spotlight.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b><b>FINALIST:</b> “Pro Wrestler Has Day Job Driving Seniors”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michael Benedic & Evan Millward <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S CONMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Intergenerational relationships are often rare or limited to one's
own family. It's refreshing to see a young man as committed to his elderly
passengers as he is to his wrestling career.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BREAKING NEWS/DEADLINE COVERAGE </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: “</b>Bronze Wolf Statue Gifted To
Cincinnati From Rome During Mussolini’s Reign Has Been Stolen”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tana Weingartner <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio -- 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Reporter’s voice track was clear and pleasant, and the script
was tight and succinct.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">SOCIAL/CRIMINAL
JUSTICE REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“John
Powell: ‘He Saved Lives By His Death’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Evan Millward & Scott Wegener<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">WCPO tracks the daughter of a victim of
the Drake Hospital serial killer called the Angel of Death. Thirty-something
years after her father died, his daughter writes his story in a book. Her
father, John Powell, was the key death that tipped the coroner off to someone
killing patients there after smelling cyanide. Her father cried two days before
his death. She thinks he knew he was going to die. Good story of redemption by
WCPO's Evan Millward and Scott Wegener.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">HUMAN RIGHTS/MINORITY
ISSUES REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Sewage-Contaminated
Water Is Seeping Into An African American Cemetery. Who Is Responsible Remains
A Mystery”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Becca Costello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">It's
a unique issue to that community, but we could all relate to the frustration on
trying to stop the contamination on this holy site. Well reported and solutions-
oriented reporting.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A Moment On Ice
Meant To Destroy”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Marshall Kramsky
& Raymond Pfeffer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The story adds an important human touch and it showcased how
people can support each other.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b>FINALIST: </b>“Transgender and
Gender Diverse People Can Struggle To Sound Like Themselves. An App Aims To
Help”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;">The
story highlighted an issue that does not get a lot of coverage in traditional
media. I appreciated learning more about the issues trans people face.”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY
ISSUES REPORTING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Cincinnati
Renters Have Eviction Protection Under A New Law. But The County Court Won’t
Enforce It”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Becca Costello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Magistrates in a Hamilton County court
refuse to honor an ordinance that a renter is allowed to stay in his unit as
long as late fees and past due rent are paid. A woman found out when both she
and her husband fell ill and he died, leaving her little money to pay the rent,
and an apartment manager refused to accept a rental assistance voucher. The
renter was ordered to leave the apartment. The so-called Pay to Stay ordinance
is nullified. Good job on catching onto this problem.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">INVESTIGATIVE
REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Fallout From Russia”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Duane Pohlman, Eric Frisbee & Tim Geraghty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Great in-depth reporting on a community
impact topic. Great job holding officials accountable as well and the determination
to uncover these documents is awesome. The NATS, graphics and quick sound bites
in the beginning drew me in.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Affordable
Housing Trust Fund Is About To Get Another $5M. But How Affordable Will That
Housing Be?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Becca Costello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;">Great topic and digging into how this will impact the
community. Awesome job on getting answers and disproving officials and amending
the rule. The in-depth reporting and explaining was well done. Great job!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER:</b> “120K+ In Taxpayer Dollars
Used To Fix Jail Windows Broken By Inmates”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall, Payton Bradley & Mike Buckingham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Good use of
financial information to get the $120,000 price tag resulting from inmates
burning holes in costly plexiglass windows at the Hamilton County jail. Many of
them are using the batteries from computer tablets to heat up accelerants to
make big holes. Wait taxpayers, there are more windows to fix. A simple
financial figure turned into a good story.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">CONTINUING COVERAGE
OR SERIES </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Round
The Corner: Lindenwald”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Tana Weingartner <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">What a wonderful idea for continuing
coverage. WVXU has focused on an area and tells its listeners what the area is
about. These entries focused on the Lindenwald area of Hamilton and showed it
to be changing in diversity and working to fill in empty buildings and
revitalize an area hit by closed mills and inability to compete with chain
stores. Maybe more of us should get off our butts and do these features that the
audience can look forward to.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">EDUCATION REPORTING</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“This Is Like Déjà Vu: Why CPS Decided To Go Remote For The Second School
Year In A Row”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cory Sharber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Comprehensive story about the challenges
that this district is facing due to COVID. The reporter added a lot of data and
information and covered both sides of the challenges.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Selfies With The CPS Superintendent A Big
Hit On The First Day”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: top;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="color: #333333;">“Good story
on the positives at the school and how the community can help.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">HEALTH/MEDICAL
REPORTING </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Foreigner Band Member Helps Man Find Kidney”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ashley Smith <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Well
written, good visuals. Nice flow to the story, like how reporter tied in the lyrics
to the song.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Another Family Alleges UC Hospital Misplaces
Remains”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simone Jameson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="background: white;">Interesting story, well
written.”</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENVIRONMENTAL/SCIENCE
REPORTING </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Best of Fallout Investigation”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Duane Pohlman, Eric Frisbee and Tim Geraghty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Hard-hitting
questions, great use of nat pops, great use of video showing hands-on
journalism and getting answers.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Green Economy Is Leaving Marginalized
Workers Behind. One Organization Is Trying To Change That”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Excellent way of exploring the growing divide between available
jobs and trainers. Appreciate the author shedding light on marginalized
communities.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Fruits of A Local Orchard Project Are
Going A Long Way”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Interesting topic, fascinating to see how food scraps become</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> compost.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">WEATHER/CLIMATE CHANGE COVERAGE</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Tornado Causes Widespread Damage In Goshen”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall & Payton Bradley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Good
visuals and good effort to show the personal impact of the tornado on people.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Ohio 2022 Blizzard”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Del Bradley, Payton Marshall &
Tricia Macke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: “</b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Very good live coverage of this big
story, with multiple angles being covered.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Goshen Tornado Live Coverage”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cassy Arsenault<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Great live reporting! Good stories at the end of the entry as
well to put it all together.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Biggest Scandal In Sports History”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Marshall Kramsky & Raymond Pfeffer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Really unique and creative angle for
what is a big event for the Reds, and the Black Sox scandal tied back to the
film Field of Dreams. I love the dig into the history of the involvement of
Cincinnati with captivating interviews that were covered with great editing to
bring the old footage and photos to life. The live shot was a perfect location
with the game happening in the back, and a view of the corn in the outfield.
Contrasting Shoeless Joe's purgatory to baseball heaven in Iowa was chef's kiss
to bring everything full circle. In total one of the best feature reports I've
ever seen. Well done!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b><b>FINALIST: </b>“Little Round Ball: The Steve Logan Story”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chris Renkel & Kevin Barnett<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“A great dive into a Cincinnati legend,
and how Steve's star-studded collegiate career fizzled out in the NBA. The
story was written, shot and edited incredibly well. I loved the use of
headlines from the paper with old footage, and the shot of Steve hugging
Huggins was a nice end to that sound bite. In all this is a wonderful story
that you should be extremely proud of. Excellent work.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Banner Year For Cincinnati Sports”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cassy Arsenault<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Your creativity with these story ideas is awesome.
Well-written and edited with the communication, which is an important aspect of
a team that is often overlooked. Good use of natural sound hits. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">CINCINNATI BENGALS
SUPER BOWL COVERAGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“The Cincinnati Bengals Are Going To The Super Bowl
In The Year of the Tiger. Coincidence?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Tana Weingartner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUDGE’S COMMENTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Fun way to connect the Super Bowl with
something other than sports! Good interview as well</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Nuns At Oldest Church In Cincinnati Pray For
Burrow, Bengals To Heal City’s Wounds”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall & Holland Rains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Interesting way to tell the story about
football, and how it can really unite people of all different people! The power
of prayer!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">CINCINNATI BENGALS
SUPER BOWL SPECIAL PROGRAM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Bengals Weekly Championship Special”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV Sports & Cincinnati Bengals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUDGE’S COMMENTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Awesome special and preview coverage for
the Big Game. Great use of the studio for different shots and interviews.
Graphics look awesome and the different segments kept me engaged the whole
time. Great job!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">DOCUMENTARY </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Sister Blandina Segale: A Cincinnati Saint”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patricia McGeever, Bryan Dykes, Richard Henry & Bob Herzog <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">How could this entry not win? Words can't describe the deeds
of Sister Blandina, who cared for the sick, the frail, the poor and built
schools, hospitals and churches without money in New Mexico, Colorado and Ohio.
They called her a Mother Teresa. She even linked up with Billy the Kid and
stopped a lynching. Originally from Cincinnati, where she spent her later years
fighting for the unfortunate, she is Cincinnati's Saint.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">VIDEOGRAPHY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Rae’s 2022 Videography Entry”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rae Hines <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: “</b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Great
shots and edits especially on the free form play about discrimination and the
girls basketball team honoring their mentor who had died. The bridge shots took
a lot of planning and effort. The story popped because of them. The emotions
came through in the first two stories. Good job.”</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">FREELANCE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FREELANCE NEWS
REPORTING</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Local Man, A Holocaust Survivor, Celebrates 100<sup>th</sup> Birthday
With Event At Cincinnati Museum Center”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Journal-News <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">It can be challenging to interview a
99-year-old or a centenarian about events in their lives that happened long
ago. The writer does a good job in gathering information from family members
and other sources to help tell the story.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FREELANCE FEATURE
REPORTING</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Ticket To Hope’s Mission: Provide Life-Changing Experiences For Locals”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Journal-News <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">A heartwarming story that follows the
manifestation of a selfless dream. I appreciated that the writer explained how
the dream originated. By sharing this story, others in the community stand to
benefit.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FREELANCE SPORTS/SPORTS
FEATURE REPORTING</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“He’s The Guy That Leads”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jeff Gilbert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dayton Daily News <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Behind every successful sports team are
key figures behind the scenes that are often overlooked. The writer does a
great job profiling the student coach and illustrating the coach's devotion to
the sport through his actions.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FREELANCE EDITORIAL
OR COMMENTARY</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“More Light, Action Needed On Sexual Assaults”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Daniel Sewell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The columnist is to be commended for
tackling a critical topic that is too often ignored. Solid writing and
reporting set this editorial apart, giving readers real insight into the
problem of campus sexual assault.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Four Decades After The Who Tragedy”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Soapbox Media <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“This concert review deftly wove
together the details of a past tragedy, the evolution of stadium concerts and
personal anecdotes into a seamless narrative. Excellent writing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FREELANCE
HEALTH/MEDICAL REPORTING</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Innovation Close To Home”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincy Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The writer offers readers an interesting
look into robotics and other innovations at Cincinnati's medical facilities.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">BEST STUDENT SPECIAL
PROJECT</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Resign: How Jason Osborne’s Tenure As Miami’s Provost Came To An End”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Miami Student Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Miami Student <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">It took the Miami Student months to get
a hold of the survey of the three-year term of Provost Jason Osborne. Great
planning to use public records law to piece together the review of at Miami
University -- never released because Osborne resigned. It was worth the wait.
He proved unpopular. Great job, Miami Student.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW - BEST OVERALLWRITTEN REPORTER <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Portfolio of Cameron Knight”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cameron Knight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Stories of extremely wide variety and
good depth. Cameron Knight delivered on topics that Cincinnati residents should
care about: questions about shaming those arrested in gay sex sting at a city
park; clearing the homeless from a covered area by a highway but without a lot
of criticism from homeless supporters; police recruit shortage that sometimes leaves
three neighborhoods sharing one patrol officer; supporting the sister city in
Ukraine and talking to a teacher in Kharkiv taking shelter from the bombings
and missile attacks; and questions about a 6-year-old allowed to run a marathon
-- all important issues. Cincinnati is better for it because of the attention
that Cameron Knight brings to each story.”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Portfolio
of Keith Pandolfi”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Keith Pandolfi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">“Keith
Pandolfi is a wonderful writer with a focus on what people eat. Good obit on
the man considered Cincy's best chef. All enjoyable reads.”</span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“The
Portfolio of Liz Engel”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Liz Engel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMNT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “An excellent writer making the mundane
sound great.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST
OVERALL BROADCAST REPORTER <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WINNER: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Duane
Pohlman, Chief Investigative Reporter”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Duane Pohlman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“It appears Duane did a lot of research.
It was good to see how he followed up. Nice layering of information that kept
the pieces interesting.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Tana
Weingartner”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tana Weingartner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMNT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">There was a good variety of stories that showed Tana's
abilities as a reporter.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Cassy
Arsenault Reports”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cassy Arsenault<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">There was a good variety of stories that showed how versatile
Cassy is as a reporter.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST RADIO NEWS ANCHOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Maryanne Zeleznik”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">91.7 WVXU News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST RADIO NEWSCAST OR NEWS PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Cincinnati Edition”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lucy May, Selena Reder & Nick Swartsell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST COLUMNIST/COMMENTATOR <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Judi Ketteler: Welcome To
Middlehood”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judi Ketteler</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Ketteler stands out for her ability to
link personal experiences to universal issues. Her writing is clever (but not
too) and articulate.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>FINALIST:</b> “Jeff Seuss’ History Column”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRANT: </b>Jeff Seuss <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MEDIA OULET: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Suess sheds a bright light into little-known or mostly
forgotten corners of Cincinnati's history. In doing so, his columns help knit a
sense of identity and community among the city's residents.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW -- BEST NEWSPAPER <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“The Cincinnati Enquirer”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Don't blame the Enquirer for loving the Bengals. The team
adds color and excitement to the paper, which must cover more mundane articles
about health and City Hall doings and the shutdown of a nearby power plant. It
does its job with great layout, day in day out with good reporting. It is the
top newspaper.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1d2228; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>FINALIST:</b> “Cincinnati Business Courier”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRANT: </b>Cincinnati Business Courier Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MEDIA OULET: </b>Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>JUDGE’S COMMENT:</b> “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">This is not your father's business journal. It tells you
about the dogs you can eat at the Reds' ballpark or the kid revitalizing the
city. It still does the staples, such as development, investment and
restaurants, but the mix is good. You can even find a nonprofit in there.
Sacrilege in a business publication. but the article told you about the
nonprofit group teaching how to shoot great photos. Did I mention layout?
Outstanding job.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW -- BEST MAGAZINE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“Cincinnati Magazine”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT:
</b>Cincinnati Magazine Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>JUDGE’S
COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Cincinnati
Magazine’s many excellent writers, designers, illustrators and photographers
chronicle the city with humor, energy and deep affection. The magazine is
filled with interesting content, including clever features such as Dr. Know,
spotlights on quirky artists and sartorial styles, and news about restaurants
and bourbon makers. The heftier pieces that anchor the magazine are excellent
and wide-ranging, such as the fascinating history of Travelers in Cincinnati,
how fair redistricting maps keep getting sabotaged, what life is like under
siege in the sister city of Kharkiv and what drives entrepreneur Ricardo Grant
to keep trying new things. The coverage makes this outsider, who has never set
foot in Ohio, really want to visit the city. High praise!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>FINALIST:</b> “Cincy Magazine”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRANTS: </b>Corinne Minard & Cincy Magazine Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MEDIA OULET: </b>Cincy Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">JUDGE’S COMMENTS: “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Cincy Magazine offers an enjoyable combination of strong business
stories—such as drone delivery and health care tech—with more general-interest
stories on the arts, nonprofits, travel tips and farm-to-table trends. It also
includes many perennial favorites such as best doctors, retirement resources
and a directory of schools. The magazine’s ‘Rating the Burbs’ feature involved
an impressive amount of research and synthesizing data, including school stats,
police data and real estate figures—all very helpful information for users.
Overall, the magazine offers upbeat coverage of business, health, culture,
education and food, with many unique rankings and lists to round it all out.
Well done.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW -- BEST WEBSITE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“LINK nky Website”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LINK nky Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LINK nky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">This is a terrific website that offers a wealth of editorial content,
all clearly organized, with solid heads and photos. Subject categories are
grouped logically and display well on computers and phones, which makes it easy
know where you are or where you might want to go. Information on how to
subscribe to the print publication or daily newsletter, or to donate to their journalism,
is nicely prominent; ads and sponsored content are lightly sprinkled
throughout, but not intrusive. The structure and design are excellent. Love the
orangey section heads, which are distinctive and clearly delineate sections.
The coverage and writing are strong, with background and context to stories,
and I appreciate that the editorial team doesn’t shy away from longer in-depth
stories. Lots of nice details here, including well-considered heads at the top
of the homepage, a “trending now” slideshow at top, and author profiles with
contact information accompanying the stories. While there’s lots of information
here—and it can verge on feeling cluttered—the website manages to feel fresh
and energetic.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b><b>FINALIST: </b>“wvxu.org”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jennifer Merritt & Ronny Salerno<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">An excellent website, with strong headlines, writing and
photography, and featuring a nice mixture of hard news, colorful features and
community updates. Some interesting pieces that stood out were “What happened
to Northern Kentucky’s streetcars?” and a fascinating series of
stories/podcasts on Camp Washington (exemplary journalism). Even introductory
text before podcast links is solid. The website includes lots of elements to
help readers find information and navigate the pages, including links to related
stories; clearly marked tags that designate local news, Ohio news or news from
NPR; keyword tags at the bottom of stories; and subject categories to explore
further. The website has been well developed in terms of presenting its
stories, organizing content so readers can find what they want, and guiding
users through the homepage (and beyond) to discover appealing reads/listens.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST OVERALL FREELANCE REPORTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WINNER: </b>“David Holthaus”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLETS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine & Soapbox Media</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b>“<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">David Holthaus writes about local
neighborhoods with warmth and a depth of understanding. His entertaining ‘walk
down Monmouth Street’ captured the feel of a neighborhood with a spicy past
while his pieces on speed cushions and climate change dig into serious
challenges and celebrate the residents working to solve them. Wonderful work.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FINALIST: </b>“Several
Different Titles”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Leyla Shokoohe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer & Realm Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUDGE’S COMMENT: </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“Judging by this entry, Shokoohe is a
well-rounded writer who can deliver smart profiles, engaging columns and
business pieces. Her personality shone through in her essay about Persian New
Year. Informative and delicious, it was a joy to read.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-33460586660127645362023-06-02T08:30:00.005-07:002023-06-10T09:07:24.266-07:00Finalists announced for Greater Cincinnati SPJ 2023 Excellence In Journalism Contest<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPWW6yQrERtCSp7E_OMKGixmZB5tspe9mhKHDTW_AweQpxNQlwUFnkdbdYGryuDsRwI6VlqkXFVye9lqhc7-tDOTw9GMykTANvF5DPIbvO0aTfSQvVJerUkgodU7fJdUYM6tWl7aHZo-Ruc9lEX0D5Hv8dzjtwjh3kO_nc5A06-RU6BiCLokKHQ/s235/New%20Cincy%20SPJ%20Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="235" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPWW6yQrERtCSp7E_OMKGixmZB5tspe9mhKHDTW_AweQpxNQlwUFnkdbdYGryuDsRwI6VlqkXFVye9lqhc7-tDOTw9GMykTANvF5DPIbvO0aTfSQvVJerUkgodU7fJdUYM6tWl7aHZo-Ruc9lEX0D5Hv8dzjtwjh3kO_nc5A06-RU6BiCLokKHQ/w293-h211/New%20Cincy%20SPJ%20Logo.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 28pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 28pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM CONTEST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 28pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">FINALISTS ANNOUNCED</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Greater Cincinnati Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists is pleased to announce the winners and finalists in the 2023
Excellence In Journalism Contest. We thank the members of SPJ Hawaii for their
work in judging the entries.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Excellence In Journalism Awards will be presented on Thursday, June 22, 2023,
at the Graydon Law Offices in the Scripps Center at 312 Walnut Street,
Downtown.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
awards ceremony is in conjunction with the induction of three new members of
the Greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame: Cincinnat Enquirer Health
Reporter Anne Saker, Cincinnati Enquirer Photographer Ernie Coleman and Jim
Delaney, who worked for the Cincinnati Post, WCPO-TV and The Cincinnati
Enquirer.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
cost to attend the event is $35. Online Eventbrite registration is open now at
the following link:</span></b> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spj-greater-cincinnati-pro-chapter-awards-hof-induction-ceremony-2023-tickets-643721607657">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spj-greater-cincinnati-pro-chapter-awards-hof-induction-ceremony-2023-tickets-643721607657</a><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: yellow;">ALL MEDIA</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GERALD
WHITE MEMORIAL AWARD <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Fallout”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Duane Pohlman <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">WKRC-TV</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CAMILLA WARRICK AWARD</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
<b>ENTRY</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">:</b> “The Case for Cities”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ENTRANTS:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> David
Holthaus & Natalie Grilli<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MEDIA
OUTLET:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Soapbox Media</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Round The
Corner: Lindenwald”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Tana
Weingartner <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Low-Income
Residents Left Out In The Cold”<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Haley Parnell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>LINK nky</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD</span></b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Pike County
Court Access”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> The
Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> The
Cincinnati Enquirer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">OUTSTANDING NEW JOURNALIST <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Outstanding New Journalist Award: Haley Parnell” </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENTRANT:</b> Haley Parnell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LINK nky</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">WRITTEN
COMMUNICATION</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">NEWS STORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A Greater Cincinnati Village Struggles To
Pay Police”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b> Scott
Wartman <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BREAKING NEWS/DEADLINE COVERAGE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Princeton School Shooting Hoax”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS:</b> Cameron
Knight, Quinlan Bentley, Victoria Moorwood & Cheryl Vari<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">FEATURE STORY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Taken:
The Harrowing Tale of Two Americans Kidnapped Overseas”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Keith
BieryGolick<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Cincinnati’s
Golden Boys & Girls”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Jaclyn
Youhana Garver <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Uncommon
Thread”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Andy
Brownfield<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Business Courier</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEAT REPORTING<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Portfolio
of Keith Pandolfi”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b> Keith
Pandolfi <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Randy
Tucker, Real Estate Reporting”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b> Randy
Tucker <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b> The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Startup/Technology Reporting: Liz
Engel”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Liz Engel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">TEAM COVERAGE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“The Day
Roe v. Wade Fell In Ohio”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LINK nky 2022 Election Coverage For Northern
Kentucky”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mark Payne,
Haley Parnell, Kenton Hornbeck, Michael Monks, Kaitlin Gebby, Lacy Starling,
Mark Collier, Maggy McDonel, Meghan Goth, Nathan Granger, Alecia Ricker, Grace
Tierney, Jason Finnell & Garin Pirnia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> LINK nky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">SOCIAL/CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Portfolio
of Cameron Knight”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b> Cameron
Knight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">HUMAN RIGHTS/MINORITY ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Segregated
Cincinnati”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dan Horn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
ENTRY: </b>“What We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Carrie
Blackmore Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Magazine</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Affordable
Housing In Northern Kentucky Is Everyone’s Problem: It Could Happen To Anyone”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Meghan
Goth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>LINK
nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“2,400
Homeowners Did What Cincinnati Asked. It Will Cost Them Thousands”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patricia Gallagher Newberry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">ELECTION ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Redistricting
Produced Unconstitutional Maps. What’s Next?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jessie Balmert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Win,
Lose, Draw: Inside Ohio’s Redistricting Battle”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jim DeBrosse <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="background: white; border-bottom: solid #EEEEEE 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 6pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="background-color: transparent;">“Resign:
How Jason Osborne’s Tenure As Miami Provost Came To An End”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sean Scott & Luke Macy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EEEEEE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="background-color: transparent; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Miami
Student</span></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Pure
Romance: Supportive Sisterhood Or Risky MLM?”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alexander Coolidge <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>The Cincinnati Enquirer</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“NKU
Faculty Senate President On Vaidya’s Departure, Budget Woes: They’re
Connected.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mark Payne <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>LINK nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Ohio’s
Big-City Mayors Kept Active Text Message Commentary”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Jessie
Balmert <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Rating
The Burbs 2022”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Bill
Ferguson, Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincy
Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">CONTINUING<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>COVERAGE OR SERIES<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“P.G.
Sittenfeld Trial”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sharon Coolidge & Kevin Grasha <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Pike
County Murder Trial”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patricia Gallagher Newberry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“The
Theatrics of the Kenton County Family Court Judge Race”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Meghan Goth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">LINK nky</span><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BUSINESS/CONSUMER NEWS REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Lighting
The Way For Inclusion”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gail Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Realm <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“How Real
Estate Investors Are Changing Cincinnati”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dan Horn & Randy Tucker <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Plum
Choice: Kroger Agrees To Acquire Albertsons”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Steve Watkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Business Courier<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BUSINESS FEATURE/ANALYSIS/COLUMN</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“A Kroger
Worker Killed Himself. Now His Family Is Suing, Testing The ‘Suicide Rule’”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alexander Coolidge <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Institutional
Investors Scoop Up Thousands of Greater Cincinnati Homes”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chris Wetterich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“How An
Urban Market Transformed Neighborhood”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus & Natalie Grilli<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Soapbox
Media <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">EDUCATION REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“A Year In
First Grade: How School Has Changed After The Pandemic”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b>Madeline
Mitchell & Amanda Rossmann<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The </span>Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Show Them The Money”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Michele Day <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“A Deep Dive Into HB9 and NKY’s Pilot
Charter School”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mark Payne <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">LINK nky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">CHILD/YOUTH/TEEN ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Cincinnati
Area Kids Are Struggling With Mental Health”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Madeline Mitchell & </span>Terry DeMio<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The </span>Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Parents
Desperate To Find Baby Formula May Face Six to Eight Weeks Before Shelves Are
Restocked”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Haley
Parnell <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>LINK
nky<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">HEALTH/MEDICAL REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Black
Americans Were Targeted By Cigarette Makers. Will They Benefit From Ban On
Menthols?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Brooks
Sutherland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
</span>Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">ENVIRONMENTAL/SCIENCE REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Climate
Change Is Just Getting Warmed Up”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>John
Stowell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Rumpke
Landfill Expansion In Southwest Ohio Leads To Controversy”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Keith
BieryGolick<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“A
Neighborhood Model To Fight Climate Change”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus & Natalie Grilli</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Soapbox
Media<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">EDITORIAL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Portfolio
of Kevin Aldridge”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Kevin
Aldridge <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Another View” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Don Mooney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Cincy Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b> “The
Pinball Wizards Among Us”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Laurie Pike <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati’s Gee Horton Found Himself An
Accidental Artist” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Sharon Coolidge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Giving Their Regards To Broadway”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Rick Pender<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT CRITIQUE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Blink Lights Festival In Cincinnati
Continues Through Weekend”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Journal-News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Chris Henry Was A Bengals Legend. His Sons
Are Talented Too”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scott Springer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Time To Win Is Now”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Steve Watkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Joey Votto Is The Greatest Reds Player of
All Time”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chad Dotson <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">CINCINNATI BENGALS SUPER BOWL COVEAGE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Enquirer Bengals Coverage”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">MAGAZINE REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“When War Hits Home”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">John Stowell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Bringing Ben Dombar Back To Life”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Linda Vaccariello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Just Call Us Kin-cinnati”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Laurie Pike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">MAGAZINE COVER DESIGN</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati Magazine Covers”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bittany Dexter & Cincinnati Magazine
Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">MAGAZINE SPECIALIZED PUBLICATIONS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati Gives”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aiesha Little, Emi Villavicencio &
Cincinnati Magazine Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Cincy Magazine Custom Publications”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Corinne Minard & Cincy Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincy Magazin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Cincinnati Schools Guide”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Amanda Boyd Walters & Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">NEWSPAPER PAGE ONE DESIGN</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRY</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Cincinnati Business Courier Page One
Designs”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">John Lauer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER PORTFOLIO</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Corrie Schaffeld 2022, Best Of ”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Corrie Schaffeld <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Liz Dufour Body of Work”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Liz Dufour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER PORTFOLIO</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Kareem Elgazzar Body of Work”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kareem Elgazzar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Corrie Schaffeld Cincinnati Business
Courier”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Corrie Schaffeld<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">PHOTO SPREAD/PHOTO ESSAY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A Day In Our Lives (24 Hours In 24 Images)”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brittany Dexter, Jen Kawanari, Emi
Villavicencio & John Fox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Friday At The LPGA, From Dawn To Dusk”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Albert Cesare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">NEWSPAPER SPECIAL SECTION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Enquirer Super Bowl Special”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">WEBSITE DESIGN</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“cincinnati.com”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Cincinnati Business Courier Website”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “CincinnatiMagazine.com”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sam Rosenstiel, Kane Mitten, Amanda Boyd
Walters, Logan Case & Cincinnati Magazine Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 20pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">BROADCAST
COMMUNICATION</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">NEWS STORY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“’We Don’t
Have Anywhere To Go.’ Residents Deal With Flooding In Hartwell Apartments”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Madeline Ottilie & Paul Weeden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Goshen Residents Pick Up The Pieces After
EF2 Tornado”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Madeline Ottilie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Ukrainian Bishop With Sons On Front Lines
Shares Realities of War”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall & Holland Rains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">FEATURE STORY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Meet The
6-Year-Old Girl Who Plays Tackle Football In Fairfield”</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Rae Hines
& Madeline Ottilie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “I Just Like Nice Words”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ken Brown & Payton Del Bradley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Pro Wrestler Has Day Job Driving Seniors”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michael Benedic & Evan Millward <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BREAKING NEWS/DEADLINE COVERAGE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: “</b>Bronze
Wolf Statue Gifted To Cincinnati From Rome During Mussolini’s Reign Has Been
Stolen”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tana Weingartner <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio -- 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">SOCIAL/CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPORTING</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“John Powell: ‘He Saved Lives By His
Death’”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Evan
Millward & Scott Wegener<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">HUMAN RIGHTS/MINORITY ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Sewage-Contaminated Water Is Seeping
Into An African American Cemetery. Who Is Responsible Remains A Mystery”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Becca
Costello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A Moment On Ice
Meant To Destroy”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Marshall Kramsky
& Raymond Pfeffer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Transgender and
Gender Diverse People Can Struggle To Sound Like Themselves. An App Aims To
Help”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY ISSUES REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Cincinnati Renters Have Eviction
Protection Under A New Law. But The County Court Won’t Enforce it”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Becca
Costello</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Fallout From Russia”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Duane
Pohlman, Eric Frisbee & Tim Geraghty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b>ENTRY</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Affordable Housing
Trust Fund Is About To Get Another $5M. But How Affordable Will That Housing
Be?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Becca Costello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 157.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS REPORTING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY:</b> “120K+ In
Taxpayer Dollars Used To Fix Jail Windows Broken By Inmates”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall, Payton Bradley & Mike
Buckingham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">CONTINUING COVERAGE OR SERIES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Round The Corner: Lindenwald”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Tana
Weingartner <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">EDUCATION REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“This Is Like Déjà Vu: Why CPS Decided To Go
Remote For The Second School Year In A Row”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cory Sharber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Selfies With The CPS Superintendent A Big
Hit On The First Day”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">HEALTH/MEDICAL REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Foreigner
Band Member Helps Man Find Kidney”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ashley Smith
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Another Family Alleges UC Hospital Misplaces
Remains”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simone Jameson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">ENVIRONMENTAL/SCIENCE REPORTING </span></b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Best of Fallout
Investigation”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Duane
Pohlman, Eric Frisbee and Tim Geraghty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Green Economy Is Leaving Marginalized
Workers Behind. One Organization Is Trying To Change That”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Fruits of A Local Orchard Project Are
Going A Long Way”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ann Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">WEATHER/CLIMATE CHANGE COVERAGE</span></b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Tornado Causes Widespread Damage In Goshen”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall & Payton Bradley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Ohio 2022 Blizzard”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Del Bradley, Payton Marshall &
Tricia Macke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Goshen Tornado Live Coverage”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cassy Arsenault<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING </span></b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Biggest Scandal In Sports History”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Marshall Kramsky & Raymond Pfeffer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Little Round Ball: The Steve Logan Story”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chris Renkel & Kevin Barnett<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Banner Year For Cincinnati Sports”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cassy Arsenault<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">CINCINNATI BENGALS SUPER BOWL COVERAGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“The
Cincinnati Bengals Are Going To The Super Bowl In The Year of the Tiger.
Coincidence?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Tana
Weingartner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cincinnati
Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Nuns At Oldest Church In Cincinnati Pray For
Burrow, Bengals To Heal City’s Wounds”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Payton Marshall & Holland Rains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WXIX-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">CINCINNATI BENGALS SUPER BOWL SPECIAL
PROGRAM</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Bengals
Weekly Championship Special”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANTS: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV
Sports & Cincinnati Bengals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b>WKRC-TV</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">DOCUMENTARY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Sister Blandina Segale: A Cincinnati Saint”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patricia McGeever, Bryan Dykes, Richard Henry
& Bob Herzog <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">VIDEOGRAPHY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Rae’s 2022
Videography Entry”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rae Hines<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WCPO-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-size: 18pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-themecolor: text1;">FREELANCE</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">FREELANCE NEWS REPORTING</span></b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Local Man, A Holocaust Survivor, Celebrates
100<sup>th</sup> Birthday With Event At Cincinnati Museum Center”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Journal-News <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">FREELANCE FEATURE REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Ticket To Hope’s Mission: Provide
Life-Changing Experiences For Locals”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Journal-News <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">FREELANCE SPORTS/SPORTS FEATURE REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“He’s The Guy That Leads”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jeff Gilbert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dayton Daily News <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">FREELANCE EDITORIAL OR COMMENTARY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“More Light, Action Needed On Sexual
Assaults”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Daniel Sewell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Four Decades After The Who Tragedy”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Soapbox Media <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">FREELANCE HEALTH/MEDICAL REPORTING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Innovation Close To Home”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ginny McCabe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincy Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST STUDENT SPECIAL PROJECT</span></b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Resign: How Jason Osborne’s Tenure As
Miami’s Provost Came To An End”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Miami Student Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Miami Student <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">BEST
OF SHOW</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW - BEST OVERALLWRITTEN REPORTER </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Portfolio
of Cameron Knight”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cameron Knight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Portfolio
of Keith Pandolfi”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Keith Pandolfi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“The
Portfolio of Liz Engel”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Liz Engel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST OVERALL BROADCAST
REPORTER <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRY: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Duane Pohlman, Chief Investigative
Reporter”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">ENTRANT: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Duane
Pohlman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">MEDIA OUTLET: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Tana
Weingartner”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tana Weingartner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Cassy
Arsenault Reports”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cassy Arsenault<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WKRC-TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST RADIO NEWS ANCHOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Maryanne
Zeleznik”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST RADIO NEWSCAST OR NEWS
PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Cincinnati
Edition”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lucy May, Selena Reder & Nick Swartsell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST COLUMNIST/COMMENTATOR</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Judi Ketteler:
Welcome To Middlehood”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judi Ketteler</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>Cincinnati
Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRY:</b> “Jeff Seuss’ History Column”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRANT: </b>Jeff Seuss <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MEDIA OULET: </b>The Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW -- BEST NEWSPAPER </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“The
Cincinnati Enquirer”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer Staff <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b>The
Cincinnati Enquirer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRY:</b> “Cincinnati Business Courier”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRANT: </b>Cincinnati Business Courier Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MEDIA OULET: </b>Cincinnati Business Courier <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW -- BEST MAGAZINE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Cincinnati
Magazine”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b>Cincinnati
Magazine Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Cincinnati Magazine <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRY:</b> “Cincy Magazine”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENTRANTS: </b>Corinne Minard & Cincy Magazine Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MEDIA OULET: </b>Cincy Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW -- BEST WEBSITE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“LINK nky
Website”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LINK nky Staff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LINK nky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“wvxu.org”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANTS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jennifer Merritt & Ronny Salerno<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Public Radio – 91.7 WVXU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 16pt;">BEST OF SHOW – BEST OVERALL FREELANCE
REPORTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“David
Holthaus”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLETS: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cincinnati Magazine & Soapbox Media</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRY: </b>“Several
Different Titles”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENTRANT: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Leyla Shokoohe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEDIA OUTLET: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Cincinnati Enquirer & Realm Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-52836742733738241952023-05-25T22:13:00.019-07:002023-05-28T22:53:33.140-07:00Three to be Inducted into Greater Cincinnati SPJ Journalism Hall of Fame<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_yu0WQ0LCGD0enuplJ2Qf-DBFT26U7YDRdN2Zrm8gEFKX27f8GqaOYiqTUItQ65-LBRjZqUXTLSDfcEyOPzawmRZEgyYQmgqW5-KZrB4us7W3I3Dqmr1VZzKkQ9LpUQduEYt6cnTiIlSaHVhqjI4u-QfERmBZu6lIf3DV25VGIVDQsZnwltd6NA/s1760/SPJ%20Bridge%20Logo.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1760" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_yu0WQ0LCGD0enuplJ2Qf-DBFT26U7YDRdN2Zrm8gEFKX27f8GqaOYiqTUItQ65-LBRjZqUXTLSDfcEyOPzawmRZEgyYQmgqW5-KZrB4us7W3I3Dqmr1VZzKkQ9LpUQduEYt6cnTiIlSaHVhqjI4u-QfERmBZu6lIf3DV25VGIVDQsZnwltd6NA/w409-h216/SPJ%20Bridge%20Logo.webp" width="409" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">THREE TO BE
INDUCTED INTO THE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">GREATER CINCINNATI
SPJ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">JOURNALISM HALL OF
FAME</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Greater Cincinnati Pro Chapter will
induct three new members into its Journalism Hall of Fame on June 22, 2023.
They are retired Cincinnati Enquirer Health Reporter Anne Saker; Jim Delaney,
who worked for the Cincinnati Post, WCPO-TV and the Cincinnati Enquirer before
starting his own video production company; and the late Ernie Coleman, longtime
Cincinnati Enquirer photographer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The
induction ceremony will be held on Thursday, June 22, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the
downtown offices of the Graydon Law, 312 Walnut Street. Suite 1800 in the
Scripps Center. The ceremony will be
held in conjunction with the Excellence in Journalism awards, presented
annually by the chapter to outstanding Greater Cincinnati journalists. The cost
is $35 per person. Reservations can be made via Eventbrite. The link is: </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spj-greater-cincinnati-pro-chapter-awards-hof-induction-ceremony-2023-tickets-643721607657"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spj-greater-cincinnati-pro-chapter-awards-hof-induction-ceremony-2023-tickets-643721607657</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkeW7OQMEdT30YnasJv3DjBIGxsxyLBwvf4peQzFZ3jBYBADtGJApLnRr9MWzvx04vuyWugVQqaqN9xrMUOV8N4094IsdBnajSucYS7nLI7QqCeTk5iYia3PilAsqi_-39YaikiIbCKyTCsEvs6MXbYhOLw7LTdf0kSlpxPO3roS49L2IrqZlOA/s2658/Anne%20Saker.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2658" data-original-width="1760" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkeW7OQMEdT30YnasJv3DjBIGxsxyLBwvf4peQzFZ3jBYBADtGJApLnRr9MWzvx04vuyWugVQqaqN9xrMUOV8N4094IsdBnajSucYS7nLI7QqCeTk5iYia3PilAsqi_-39YaikiIbCKyTCsEvs6MXbYhOLw7LTdf0kSlpxPO3roS49L2IrqZlOA/s320/Anne%20Saker.webp" width="212" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Anne Saker</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anne Saker
is a Columbus native and Ohio University graduate who built a coast-to-coast
career in journalism. Stops included United Press International in Washington,
D.C., Gannett News Service, The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina,
The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, and the Cincinnati Enquirer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Saker has
written about the advent of legal marijuana in Ohio, turmoil at the Cincinnati
VA Medical Center, the transgender community, the rise in youth suicide and the
struggles of mental health care. She was part of the 60-person Enquirer team
that produced “Seven Day of Heroin,” which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in local
reporting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Jim Delaney</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSunZS6iVflyV95NhVAK_P3xc1pjAZsp0_ePkVKJhXpHJuoZ9-FrrNZCKTGvl39F6PcyBoXM8lEXqkFrjLiJEg150cHmpc4UO---DGJUsVGactf1xynF9UvvRVFpZZ3PUg0Ryq9UmVLJt13-M61_sT43fX2Zzyfn4dPOqI-RqB6u5ailWwxVzIEw/s2632/Delaney.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2632" data-original-width="1760" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSunZS6iVflyV95NhVAK_P3xc1pjAZsp0_ePkVKJhXpHJuoZ9-FrrNZCKTGvl39F6PcyBoXM8lEXqkFrjLiJEg150cHmpc4UO---DGJUsVGactf1xynF9UvvRVFpZZ3PUg0Ryq9UmVLJt13-M61_sT43fX2Zzyfn4dPOqI-RqB6u5ailWwxVzIEw/s320/Delaney.webp" width="214" /></a></span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jim
Delaney is a longtime Cincinnati newspaper and broadcast journalist who founded
Delaney Communications, Inc., after leaving daily journalism in 1988.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Delaney
began his news career in the 1960’s as the police reporter for the Cincinnati
Post and later moved to WCPO-TV, where he was a reporter, producer and
assistant news editor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1976, he
joined the Cincinnati Enquirer and served as City Editor and Metro Editor,
supervising a staff of abut 50 reporters and editors. He was also a special
projects editor, assistant city editor and investigative reporter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">He
followed the legendary Gerald White in the investigative position and won
acclaim for his coverage of the trial which pinpointed one of the causes of the
1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire as aluminum wiring. He later won the first
ever Gerald White Memorial Award from the Greater Cincinnati Pro Chapter of the
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">When SPJ
decided to hold its 1988 national convention during Cincinnati’s bicentennial,
Delaney was prominent in the bid process and served as co-chair of the event.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Delaney
Communications was founded in 1988 and has produced over 125 videos for
national distribution under the name Sentimental Productions. The first was </span><i>The
Unsinkable Delta Queen</i><span>, which aired on WKRC-TV on the eve of Cincinnati’s
first Tall Stacks celebration.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-_9AIReiit2xmZOpAV4LjOswmYk1Acu6yB9JG-hi2FtvEkBeAjmi1JWqbgGLnwqdSa1faAY00-YDlJKViNOchnh8huuRbWAK_fW62ZInEk5p-yKaVaKcpDGVDpRwEAWb-3mXEz6cSJ7rhKTWayxAri-xOEMdiL30snVA-4IfR-3rTeu4FUq1xg/s2018/Ernie%20Coleman.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2018" data-original-width="1760" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-_9AIReiit2xmZOpAV4LjOswmYk1Acu6yB9JG-hi2FtvEkBeAjmi1JWqbgGLnwqdSa1faAY00-YDlJKViNOchnh8huuRbWAK_fW62ZInEk5p-yKaVaKcpDGVDpRwEAWb-3mXEz6cSJ7rhKTWayxAri-xOEMdiL30snVA-4IfR-3rTeu4FUq1xg/s320/Ernie%20Coleman.webp" width="279" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Ernie Coleman</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Ernie
Coleman, a Cincinnati Enquirer photographer for 22 years, covered general news,
spot news and feature assignments, plus college, high school and pro sports,
including the 1990 World Series. After leaving the Enquirer in 2011, he
freelanced for the Associated Press shooting sporting events. So, for three
decades Coleman was seen on the sidelines, baselines and in the dugout wearing
an ever-present baseball hat while carrying two cameras and his gear.</span><span> </span><span>Coleman also had a great eye for shooting
stand-alone feature photos for the Enquirer's Metro section covers.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The
California native worked for the commercial News in Danville, Ill., before
coming to the Enquirer in 1990.</span><span> </span><span>He
passed away in December of 2022 at the age of 68.</span></span></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-69180406054812475442023-05-01T22:08:00.016-07:002023-05-28T23:00:26.995-07:00Job Posting - Cincinnati Public Radio - Freelance Reporter<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Cincinnati Public Radio</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Freelance
Reporter</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reports To:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
VP of News, Cincinnati Public Radio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Position
Type: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part Time,
Independent Contractor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Position
Start:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Late
Summer or Early Fall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Compensation
Range:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> See Below<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Location: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cincinnati, OH</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Position Description</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The WVXU news
department has a staff of twelve covering the Tri-State region and would like
to enhance its news coverage with the addition of several freelance broadcast
reporters. The news department is looking for trained broadcast reporters who
can find stories from throughout the region. These reporters may also be asked
to fill in when staff reporters go on vacation, take sick time, etc. Work could
be daily and ongoing, for example covering a court trial, or could be sporadic
as news arises. However, expect your workload to largely be based on how much
you pitch.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reporters would
pitch stories for consideration and/or would be assigned stories. Stories would
cover the Greater Cincinnati area including, Butler, Clermont, Warren, and
Hamilton counties in Ohio; Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties in Kentucky;
and Dearborn, Ohio, and Switzerland counties Indiana.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stories we are
looking for include coverage of governmental meetings, rallies, protests,
enterprise reporting on issues including housing, education, transportation,
business, etc. We are also open to other ideas. In most cases, we will ask for
stories for both broadcast and the WVXU website. Pitches should include a basic
summary of the story, who you would like to include in the story, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">News happens at
all times, freelancers may be asked to workdays, evenings, and weekends. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This position is
an independent contractor position on a part-time basis, and not an employee of
Cincinnati Public Radio, Inc. Even so, you will be expected to adhere to
certain journalist guidelines. Freelance reporters would be required to use
their personal equipment including digital recorder, microphone, headphones,
computer, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Cincinnati Public Radio has been a
trusted member of the Greater Cincinnati community for more than 60 years. Join
a team that works to build trust and make a difference in the lives of
listeners and non-listeners alike, to create a community that is informed,
involved, and inspired.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Desired Skills and Qualifications:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journalism
degree or experience equivalent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">1-2
years of reporting experience (college and intern experience included)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong
broadcast and print writing skills<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Audio
editing experience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Willingness
to work with an editor, take feedback and implement changes, if necessary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Able
to pay attention to detail and meet deadlines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Able
to work in a fast-paced environment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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self-starter, able to take initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ability
to work with a diverse and creative team</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please
provide samples of your writing both for broadcast and print as well as an
audio sample.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Compensation Range:</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wraps/Cut and Copy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Voicers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$45<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Superspot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$250<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Feature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$500 - $750<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Web Story<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$100 - $200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">CPR
is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Minority/female/disability PWDNET/veteran are encouraged to apply.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Submit
resume, cover letter, and writing and audio samples</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">to: </span></b><a href="https://jobapply.page.link/zKwZ5"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://jobapply.page.link/zKwZ5</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Applications are
accepted until the position is filled.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-88024816108546055002023-05-01T00:23:00.002-07:002023-05-09T18:59:42.427-07:00GCABJ/SPJ High School Journalism Boot Camp - Student Applications Open<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiXHf4vG9edrAhGJ_ucmZn3_iJFb_FuMGsHevdmTEqGhaqkm7ZZKT-1YmB6Bytk0QIciCeXhB8VySBce8-Ei3m2oDD1GnU5SbExBDE2U23xki8X-9qaA5nnTJ-W4DWtAIiCNIsvXez2BXhGckNwirHf9ldhWu4Ln5v8rxVaCJQJK13epUn2pl3qQ/s900/img_2_1683184659182.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiXHf4vG9edrAhGJ_ucmZn3_iJFb_FuMGsHevdmTEqGhaqkm7ZZKT-1YmB6Bytk0QIciCeXhB8VySBce8-Ei3m2oDD1GnU5SbExBDE2U23xki8X-9qaA5nnTJ-W4DWtAIiCNIsvXez2BXhGckNwirHf9ldhWu4Ln5v8rxVaCJQJK13epUn2pl3qQ/w329-h411/img_2_1683184659182.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv2426530907WordSection1"><p class="yiv2426530907MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; padding: 0px;">The 2023 GCABJ/SPJ High School Student Journalism Boot Camp will be held JUNE 17, 2023, at WLWT-TV, 1700 Young Street from 10am-2pm (lunch will be included). The camp is open to students in Grades 9-12. NOTE: This camp will be IN-PERSON and we will be following all health and safety protocols of the host institution. Participants will be required to complete a self-health questionnaire upon entry. This camp is specifically targeting students of color in hopes of increasing diverse representation in newsrooms in the future.</p><p class="yiv2426530907MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; padding: 0px;"> </p><p class="yiv2426530907MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; padding: 0px;">Deadline to apply is MAY 15. Those who are selected for participation in the camp will be notified by email/phone by June 1. Completed applications should be sent to (<a href="mailto:greatercincinnatiabj@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;">greatercincinnatiabj@gmail.com</a>). Participants in this year’s camp will be eligible for consideration of a GCABJ scholarship (estimated value $500-$1000).<br /><br />Students can apply here at this link:</p><p class="yiv2426530907MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczaRO8-uxP-y9tSMb0y9M8yNVkNiKGUQ_O1HaZfJN9hUJvsw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczaRO8-uxP-y9tSMb0y9M8yNVkNiKGUQ_O1HaZfJN9hUJvsw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0</a></p></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-63580060170252828672023-04-17T17:00:00.001-07:002023-04-23T00:56:27.217-07:00Region 4 Mark of Excellence Awards 2022 winners announced<p> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Libre Franklin", georgia, serif; font-size: 3em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: 900;">Region 4 Mark of Excellence Awards 2022 winners announced</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Franklin", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; float: right; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; max-width: 50%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><span class="headline5" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Libre Franklin", georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.3em !important; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span class="headline5" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Libre Franklin", georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.3em !important; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4/17/2023</span><br /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Franklin", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Franklin", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="newsBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "Libre Franklin", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CONTACT:<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Lou Harry, SPJ Manager of Publications and Awards, <a href="mailto:lharry@spj.org" style="border: 0px; color: #2071b0; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lharry@spj.org</a><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Kimberly Tsuyuki, SPJ Communications Coordinator, <a href="mailto:ktsuyuki@hq.spj.org" style="border: 0px; color: #2071b0; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ktsuyuki@hq.spj.org</a><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />INDIANAPOLIS — The <a href="https://www.spj.org/index.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #2071b0; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Society of Professional Journalists</a> recognizes the best collegiate journalism in Region 4 with <a href="https://www.spj.org/a-moe.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #2071b0; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2022 Mark of Excellence Awards</a> winners.<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />SPJ’s <a href="https://www.spj.org/region4.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #2071b0; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Region 4</a> comprises Michigan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. First-place winners will compete at the national level among other MOE winners from the 12 SPJ regions.<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />National winners will be notified in the late spring and will be recognized at the <a href="https://www.spj.org/convention.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #2071b0; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">SPJ’s 2023 convention</a> in Las Vegas, Sept. 28-30.<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />MOE Awards entries are judged by professionals with at least three years of journalism experience. Judges were directed to choose entries they felt were among the best in student journalism. If no entry rose to the level of excellence, no award was given. Any category not listed has no winner.<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />School divisions are based on student enrollment, including both graduate and undergraduate: Large schools have at least 10,000 students and small schools have 9,999 or fewer students.<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />The list below details all Region 4 winners. If you have any questions regarding the MOE Awards, contact SPJ Manager of Publications and Awards Lou Harry <a href="mailto:lharry@spj.org" style="border: 0px; color: #2071b0; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by email</a>.<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />This list reflects the spelling and titles submitted in the award entries.<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Print/Online</span><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Breaking News Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Fatal hit-and-run accident near UC campus — by Emma Balcom, Zachary Jarrell, Allison Kiehl, Zurie Pope, The News Record, University of Cincinnati<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Multi-alarm fire strikes historic mill complex in Kent — by Staff, The Kent Stater/KentWired, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Biology professor helps save mother, child from Cuyahoga River — by Zaria Johnson, The Kent Stater/KentWired, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />General News Reporting (Large)<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Dress Coded: Undressing the reality behind dress code restrictions through the minority lens — by Arianna Smith, The Lantern, The Ohio State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Bibi the hippo is due any day now — by Morgan Schneider, Cincinnati Magazine, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Ohio 'Constitutional Carry' bill worries domestic-violence survivor advocates — by Halena Sepulveda, Kent State NewsLab, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />General News Reporting (Small)<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Post-Gazette workers strike near campus — by Jake Dabkowski, The Globe, Point Park University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Calvin to invest in goals of Strategic Plan for Athletics, including possible football team — by Lauren Nyong, Chimes, Calvin University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />In-Depth Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: ‘Restricted’: How disordered eating is disguised and normalized on college campuses — by Tess Wells, The Lantern, The Ohio State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Importance of options and access: How students, professionals feel about women’s healthcare resources — by Claire Schiopota, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Feature Writing<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Don't believe the crazy girl — by Grace Avery, A Magazine, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Sparty is graduating — by Maddy Warren, The State News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: A life almost taken, mine forever changed — by GraciAnn Hicks, The Miami Student Magazine, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Sports Writing<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: J.J. McCarthy, for better or for worse — by Josh Taubman, The Michigan Daily, The University of Michigan<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Football: Ohio falls to Toledo 17-7 in MAC championship game — by Molly Burchard, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Leveling the playing field: female coaches prep women’s sports teams for season and for life — by Grace Toma, Chimes, Calvin University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Editorial/Opinion Writing<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Columns — by Sam Norton, The Miami Student, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Editorials — by Editorial staff, The State News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Love, Ames / Starting our lives / I hope you're hungry... for nothing — by Ames Radwan, The Miami Student, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />General Column Writing<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Columns — by Zach Donaldson, The New Political, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Unsolicited Advice — by Katie Millard, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Sports Column Writing<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: SportsMonday — by Jared Greenspan, Nicolas Stoll, Joshua Taubman, The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Life's a Beach — by Ashley Beach, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Corbin Gwaltney Award for Best All-Around Student Newspaper (Large)<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Flyer News — by Staff, Flyer News, University of Dayton<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: The State News — by Staff, The State News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Corbin Gwaltney Award for Best All-Around Student Newspaper (Small)<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: The Globe — by Staff, The Globe, Point Park University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Best Student Magazine<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Fusion Magazine by Staff, Fusion Magazine, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Thread by Staff, Thread, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: UP Magazine by Staff, COSMOS, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Best Affiliated Web Site<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Miamistudent.net — by Staff, The Miami Student, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Art/Graphics/Multimedia</span><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Breaking News Photography<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Mill fire — by Anthony Scilla, The Kent Stater/KentWired, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />General News Photography<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: ‘I just need a maize and blue army that’s got my back’: Whitmer, Buttigieg get out the vote on the Diag — by Anna Fuder, The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Renaissance ball — by Matthew Brown, The Kent Stater/KentWired, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Photo Essay/Slideshow<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Capitol Reactions: Roe v. Wade is overturned — by Carrie Legg, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: #RacismatOU: A march on Cutler — by Izzy Keller, Audrianna Wilde, The New Political, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Growing up — by Allison Friedly, A Magazine, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Illustration<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Erasing Russia — by Trevor Brighton, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Black Hair — by Destiny Franklin, The Burr Magazine/Uhuru Magazine, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Chadwick Boseman — by Amy Dudek, A Magazine, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Photo Illustration<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Party foul — by Trevor Brighton, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Sports Photography<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Ohio guard AJ Brown shoots for three — by Jesse Jarrold-Grapes, The Post, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: The battle of Ohio — by Jessica Monahan, The Miami Student, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Best Use of Multimedia<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: The developmental dilemma — by Jane McKinley, Medium, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Photographers' favorites — by Eric Lau, William Gushee, The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Varsity swimmers react to club win after MSU Swim and Dive is cut — by Audrey Richardson, The State News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />News Videography<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Sprucing up your home — by Amaya Kuznicki, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Brewing up concerns — by Alexandra Hill, Amaya Kuznicki, Katlyn Holtvluwer, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Frustrated students left out in the cold — by McKoy Scribner, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Feature Videography<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Retracing Dahmer: Understanding Jeffrey Dahmer's life at Ohio State — by Molly Goheen, Brett Price, Phoebe Helms, The Lantern, The Ohio State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: It's the best day of the year — by Isabella Martin, Focal Point News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Sports Videography<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: A new home for these cleats — by Chloe Porfirio, Focal Point News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Balancing it all — by Elena Cousino, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Table tennis team's big tournament — by Daniel Zivian, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Data Visualization<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Data: June AEP outage affected lower-income areas at higher rate — by Isabel Nissley, Matter News, Ohio University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Audio</span><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Radio News Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Localization in Huntington — by David Adkins, WMUL, Marshall University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Radio Sports Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: State of the Herd — by Justin I. Zimmer, WMUL, Marshall University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Broadcast</span><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Television Breaking News Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Local protesters stand up to abortion restrictions — by Lara Bonatesta, West Virginia Today, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Shovel, come home, shovel again — by Chloe Porfirio, Focal Point News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: WVU tennis star hits the court to prepare for Martha Thorn Invitational — by Ben Machi, Mountaineer Playbook, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Television General News Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Sprucing up your home — by Amaya Kuznicki, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Student report mold in residence halls — by Jacob Brooks, TV2 News, Kent State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: COVID-19 vaccines become available to children — by Jessica Riley, WVU News, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Television Feature Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: It's like he's working in the Dark Ages' — by Isabella Martin, Focal Point News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: The U.S. gears up for spring break travel as new COVID-19 strains emerge — by Jessica Riley, WVU News, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: WVU's Mountaineer Week celebrates Appalachian culture through axe throwing — by Michael Gourley, Mountaineer Playbook, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Television In-Depth Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: What are the odds? — by Brendan Schabath, Bella Gorisek, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: The power of Gen Z — by Elena Cousino, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: West Virginians seek addiction help through peer recovery — by Lara Bonatesta, West Virginia Today, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Television Sports Reporting<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: WVU Reed College of Media student becomes Mountaineer mascot — by Ben Machi, Mountaineer Playbook, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Lifelong WVU fan achieves dream of playing for the Gold and Blue — by Zippy Zimmerman, Mountaineer Playbook, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Table tennis team's big tournament — by Daniel Zivian, Focal Point TV News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Best All-Around Television Newscast<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: WVU News — by Staff, WVU News, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Best All-Around Television News Magazine<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: West Virginia Today — by Staff, West Virginia Today, West Virginia University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Focal Point News — by Staff, Focal Point News, Michigan State University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Platform</span><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Arts/Entertainment/Fashion Journalism<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: Watch 'Aftersun.' Then, call your dad — by Lola D'Onofrio, The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Food/Restaurant Journalism<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Winner: The Weekly Veg — by Ames Radwan, The Miami Student, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Argus Farm Stop, Ann Arbor is lucky to have you — by Jaden Katz, The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" />Finalist: Jungle Jim's / A Non-Coffee Drinker's Guide to Oxford / Caramel Apple Recipe — by Maggie Peña, The Miami Student, Miami University<br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to informing citizens; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists; and fights to protect First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. 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A pre-event reception for attendees will also take place from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at the same location. </strong> (Both events are free; no tickets required. RSVPs are appreciated but not required, either by email at <a data-cke-saved-href="mailto:admin@voamuseum.org" href="mailto:admin@voamuseum.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:admin@voamuseum.org">admin@voamuseum.org</a> or by phone at (513) 777-0027.)<div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650188882281546026.post-48402887457349790972023-03-14T14:28:00.004-07:002023-03-14T14:38:59.207-07:00Woman's City Club - 29th National Speaker Forum featuring Marcia Coyle <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglF7ONCy797pbma6ZbF30_w31YMiBGyl_Mo0cbOaFvpIJpDwkIjmnJOFBkv-CV9otWALwiV-W_2VLGwlPoVPBw4G8dMuY4hBkCxsEuUgqCabMSaUt9NlSrVkQz4v2iXiAd8wZOFah1SPI3uxRPQ5EPVcPDb2t5ramb4hbxBCgbPr-kL59FgL-EGw/s1080/NATIONAL%20SPEAKER%202023%20%20instagram%20(Instagram%20Post%20(Square))%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 600.17px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Join us for our first in-person program of 2023!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As newsrooms have changed, so too has the way local communities are consuming news. The</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> Cincinnati PRSA and Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) chapters are coming together</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> to host a panel conversation to explore how organizations throughout the region are looking to revitalize local journalism and how PR practitioners can better tell the stories of their communities.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">During this lunch and learn program we’ll:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><ul><li><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hear from local news organizations that are taking matters into their own hands to start to fill the news void throughout the region.</span></li><li><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Understand how the different neighborhoods and communities in the Cincinnati region consume news differently.</span></li><li><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Learn how PR practitioners can better localize their stories and build relationships with community news outlets to reach more targeted, engaged audiences.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Speakers include:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><ul><li style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Jim DeBrosse</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Contributing Writer, Cincinnati Magazine</span></li><li style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Meghan Goth</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">, Managing Editor, LINK NKY</span></li><li style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Steve Siff</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">, Oxford Observer</span></li><li style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Tess Brown</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">, Tess M. Brown Communications & Marketing, LLC</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Click the button below to register today. </span><span style="color: #e94c3a; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Register by Monday, March 20.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 600.17px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="outline: none; 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width: 600.17px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">WHO SHOULD ATTEND</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This program is open to Cincinnati PRSA members as well as guests.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; 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width: 600.17px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Event Details:</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; 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font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">When:</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 450.128px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thursday, March 23</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 150.043px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Where:</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 450.128px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Greater Cincinnati Foundation</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">720 East Pete Rose Way</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Suite 120</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Cincinnati, OH 45202</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 150.043px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Time:</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 450.128px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12:00 - 1:00 p.m.</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 150.043px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Cost:</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 450.128px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">$25 - Cincinnati PRSA/SPJ Members</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">$25 - PRSSA Members</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">$30 - Nonmembers</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 150.043px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">RSVP:</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 450.128px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Deadline to register is</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> Monday, March 20 at 10:00 a.m.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480layout" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 150.043px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Additional Information:</span></div><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="center" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480column yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480scale yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480stack" style="outline: none; width: 450.128px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480text_content-cell yiv8861506801m_-7195067773192819480content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There is free visitor parking in a surface lot next to Greater Cincinnati Foundation. Lunch will be provided.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><ul><li><br /></li></ul><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Ginny McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535823583437986411noreply@blogger.com