by Bob DeMay | Jul 15, 2009 | Industry News
New Vision Television operators of Youngstown television stations WKBN/WYFX/WYTV have filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A story by Andrea Wood of the Youngstown Business Journal reports that employees of the affected stations learned of the news from a...
by Bob DeMay | Jul 13, 2009 | Industry News
Former ONPA member Michael P. King received a screening copy of An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story and gives it 4 1/2 stars. His full review is available online. King’s only negative on the documentary is its limited release with no dates in his hometown...
by Bob DeMay | Jun 29, 2009 | Industry News
Lima Company: A Portrait of Service, a story by photographer Jeff Ritter from WBNS-TV in Columbus, has won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for videography in the Large Market Television division. The Edward R. Murrow Awards are presented by the Radio-Television News...
by Bob DeMay | Jun 24, 2009 | Industry News
Bill Lackey of the Springfield News-Sun has won the National Associated Press Member Showcase Photo of the Month for May. The photo, which moved on the wire May 25 shows the driver a car looking out from her vehicle which flipped over after striking a tree.Of course...
by Bob DeMay | Jun 24, 2009 | Industry News
Plain Dealer photographer Gus Chan was named Best in Ohio in the 31st Annual Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards present by the Press Club of Cleveland. His co-worker Lisa DeJong placed 2nd – in the competition.The awards to honor Ohio’s best newspapers,...
by Bob DeMay | Jun 14, 2009 | Industry News
The downturn in revenue which has let to cuts at many daily newspapers has now appeared to take its toll on two major weekly chains in Ohio.In the Cleveland/Akron market Sun Newspapers said Friday it will eliminate half of its 22 editions and cut staffing. A Sun...
