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From the President The Press Club of Clevlend Presents WATCH Ed Byers Make Your Best Online Pitch March Madness FOR at The Press Club is Hyperlocal: No Hype DETAILS! underway. We have April 8th at Progressive Field a lot going on in the next few weeks. Join panelist Linda Kinsey, Sun News; Jean Dubail and Susan Ruiz Patton, Patch. First The Plain com; Colin Toke, cleveland.com; David Kordalski, ;Scott Shriner, Dealer program at The Record Publishing; Jeff Stacklin, YahooNews.com as moderater Stuart Warner with PD this Friday. Come AOL News takes us through a look at Hyperlocal news. out and meet Debra Adams Simmons, Thom Fladung, Michael Norman, Denise Polverine and Linda Kinsey Real Life in the Virtual News Room who will discuss The PD’s new informa- By Stuart Warner tion thrust. How do you monitor the world and

March 24 join us at 11:45 at Progres- produce a comprehensive news report sive Field for a look at what’s new at the from your basement in Hudson, ? old ball park for 2011. Bob DiBiasio and I’m a contract editor for AOL News, crew will be giving us a tour and then which produces the national and we’ll return to the Terrace Club to graze. international coverage for the online For 20 bucks, you can’t go wrong. giant. I work in a virtual news room. We March 31 at Nighttown, It’s The Press Club’s monthly mixer-networking event, have a core group of editors and support right after work from 5 to 7 p.m. This people in New York, but several dozen is a very informal affair and I hope you other line editors, copy editors, reporters can join us. Don’t forget – your Press and photo people operate remotely from Stuart’s home office Club membership entitles you to 15% all over the world. has a system that allows dozens of folks off your meals (alcohol not included). I have actually only met one other AOL April 8 is the 5th annual Make Your News employee. And I rarely actually talk to interact simultaneously. And no matter Best Pitch luncheon at Progressive with them, either. Occasionally we use where we’re located, we can all access our Field’s Terrace Club. This year, the focus e-mail to keep in touch, but mostly we online publishing system. So it’s as simple is online news sources. We will have key communicate by Instant Message. AOL continued on page 6> players from Patch.com, cleveland.com. YahooNews.com and AOLNews.com Robin Swoboda Joins Channel 3 News Team along with the Sun Newspapers and Robin Swoboda will format with Romona at 6 and 11 p.m., we Record Publishing. This program always took two of our strongest beat reporters fills up fast, so get your reservations in return to her journalistic off the street and moved them into a dif- a.s.a.p. roots with a new station ferent role at 7,” explained News Director I am sure you know someone wor- and new assignment. thy of induction for The Press Club of Swoboda will be anchor- Rita Andolsen. Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. The ing WKYC’s 7 p.m. news- “The opportunity to hire Robin entry form is in this issue. cast and her co-anchor will Swoboda coincided with our realization I hope to see you at an upcoming be current TV 3 reporter that we needed to reinstate resources for event! Chris Tye. our medical coverage and Akron/Canton P. S . I keep hearing from people who Currently anchored by Monica Robins content,” said Andolsen. forgot to pay their dues, and, because and Eric Mansfield, the WKYC 7 p.m. Swoboda will begin on-air in early of that, a few missed out on the oppor- show was first in the market. Robins March. In addition to past roles as a tunity to enter their work in the Excel- and Mansfield will return to their origi- news anchor for WJW and WEWS, most lence in Journalism contest. Call Lynn nal medical coverage and Akron/Canton recently, she was the program host for at The Press Club office or go online to beats, respectively. “The Robin Swoboda Show,” an advertiser renew you membership. “When we moved to a single anchor friendly show on WJW FOX 8.

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March 18th, The Press Club to host Two Happy Endings Luncheon Program Laurie Mitchell Certified Personnel Consultant “How The Plain Dealer, Last summer, hours it took to pound out a quasi final Sun News and cleveland.com Michael Bennett, document, I noted that every time Bob are forging into the future” Publisher & Editor of opened his mouth, it was obvious he the Cleveland Jewish knew a great deal about writing and Date: Friday, March 18, Luncheon Program News, quietly asked me editing. Time: 12 noon - 2 p.m. for assistance in identi- As the four got up to put on their Place: The Plain Dealer Community Room fying a new managing coats, I steered Bob to the living room, 1800 Superior Avenue editor for the paper. and inquired “What do you do for a Cost to attend: $25 Press Club members We interviewed many living?” His reply, “I’m a newspaper edi- $40 Non-members very fine candidates but didn’t come up tor,” took my breath away. Panelists include: with the perfect fit. Turns out that Bob has been a pas- Debra Adams Simmons, Recently, I served on my synagogue’s sionate print journalist for 32 years The Plain Dealer editor Rabbinic Search Committee, which but had never needed a résumé. At my included chairing the subcommittee urgent request, he threw together a Thomas Fladung, charged with crafting a 25 page ques- makeshift résumé and I rushed him in The Plain Dealer managing editor tionnaire provided to prospective can- to meet Michael Bennett. didates so that they might learn about As of Feb. 14, Bob Jacob is the man- Linda Kinsey, our congregation and decide whether aging editor of the Cleveland Jewish Sun News executive editor to apply for the opening. Various News. And, my congregation just hired committee members wrote different the Search Committee’s first choice as Michael Norman, sections and then five of us sat around our new Rabbi. Seems that our opus of The Plain Dealer online my kitchen table one snowy Sunday in a questionnaire was well written and arts-and-entertainment editor January to put all the pieces and parts compelling. into a compelling Master Voice. Laurie Mitchell & Company, Inc. Denise Polverine We a professional fundraiser, a Marketing Communications cleveland.com editor-in-chief PhD audiologist, an HR executive, and Executive Search Bob whom I knew only as the President Visit [email protected] of the Mens Club but had never spo- www.LaurieMitchellCompany.com www.pressclubcleveland.com ken with previously. During the four to make your reservation. Betty Klaric, Press Club Hall of Famer, Pioneering Cleveland Press Journalist, Dead at 79 Betty Klaric, 79, inducted into The Press Ohio. Betty was a stringer for the Mar- Club Journalism Hall of Fame in1999, tins Ferry Times-Leader. She also wrote died Feb. 24 at the Hospice of the West- a guest column for the Wheeling Intel- ern Reserve from complications of brain ligencer. cancer. In 1953, Betty earned a bachelor’s de- Rarely missing the annual Press Club gree in journalism at Ohio State Univer- Hall of Fame induction banquet and the sity and in 1955 she became a “copy boy” annual Hall of Fame reunion at Night- at the Press. town, Betty’s charm and smile always lit In 1961, she became a rare female news- up the room. writer, handling general assignments. Betty held many firsts in Cleveland jour- In 1965, she was a fledgling environ- nalism. In 1964, she persuaded Cleveland mental reporter and helped the Cleveland Press editors to give her one of the first Press start a “Save Lake Erie Now” cam- Sarah Crump, Helen Moise, Betty Klaric full-time environmental beats on a daily paign. The Cuyahoga River had burned newspaper. Her stories on the Cuyahoga on and off for decades. But Betty helped a to my attention recently...” He enclosed River helped inspire sweeping environ- 1969 blaze there grab worldwide headlines a Presidential Commendation for “ex- mental laws, a presidential commenda- and inspire many environmental laws, in- ceptional service to others, in the finest tion, a gubernatorial award and more. cluding federal clean air mandates in 1970 American tradition.” Klaric was also the first female president and water mandates in 1972. The next year, Betty shared the National of the 33-year-old Cleveland Journalists In 1971, Betty got a letter from Presi- Headliner Awards with two celebrities, Guild, elected by acclamation. dent Nixon: “Your outstanding newspaper White House correspondent Helen Thom- She was born Betty Klaric, in Yorkville, reporting on pollution problems came continued on page 6> March 2011 The Press Club of Cleveland 3

An open letter to Clevelanders to rally the forces The Cleveland news anchor sings his song to the city Leon Bibb The same with the Vietnam War. Many of Cleveland I grew up in Cleveland, of us who were of age were called off to “Serving and honoring communications about a mile from the war. My family members were strong men professionals since 1887.” shoreline of Lake Erie, and and women who grunted out their liv- President: Ed Byers I take pride in what the city ings in tough times in a tough city that Medical Mutual of Ohio taught me about life. understood families survived because of 216/687-2685 Cleveland is part of the hard work of those who brought home Vice President: Stuart Warner my bloodline. That’s how the bacon. The Write Coach LLC Cleveland has taken a few hits. A lot of deep my roots are in this city. I view its [email protected] people and think my history here and my jobs have gone up the old chimneys and strength is renewed. This city has taken a disappeared into thin air. But Cleveland Secretary & Treasurer: Carol Kovach lot of knocks over the last several years, and its suburbs are still here, filled with Sun Newspapers 216/986-6060 but we Clevelanders need to realize we are strong-minded people cut off the same log among the places that has made America from where their ancestors came. Many of VP Membership: Pat Panchak Former Editor-in-Chief, IndustryWeek great. us are descendants of those workers who We should keep the city’s storied histo- knew how to make something and make VP Programming: Wendy Kertesz ry in mind as we help chart a new course it good. MarketingSense into the 21st century. My parents taught me the importance When I was a kid growing up in the city, of hard work and dedication to the job. VP Sponsorship: Dustin Klein my family would take Sunday drives and One year into my teenaged years, my dad Smart Business Network I could see as part of the skyline those suggested I ought to get a newspaper VP Marketing & PR: Carol Saferin industrial stacks that belched out smoke route and deliver the morning paper on Mart Saferin & Associates and steam. doorsteps in my neighborhood. 440/461-6753 My dad did not work in a plant, but he At age 13, I was on the street seven did work in the U.S. Post Office. For more days a week at six o’clock in the morning. Board of Directors: than 30 years, he moved millions of pieces In the bag draped over my shoulder were Bob Becker of mail. He understood his job, a small cog nearly a hundred newspapers that I folded bbsoundandlight, WTAM 1100 in the Cleveland workforce, was helping individually so I could toss with a thud on Jeff Bendix lift America. the front porches of newspaper customers Advanstar Communications In the 1950s and 60s, my uncles – in my neighborhood. Michael Bennett almost every one of them – made steel or Thirteen is a tender age to be muscling Cleveland Jewish News aluminum, or fabricated some other kind newspapers down the street before the Margaret Bernstein of metal into products the world wanted sun has even had time to get out of bed. The Plain Dealer and needed. My dad, and my uncles, In the days of safe neighborhoods, I did John Betchkal knew how to make something that some- it. My parents insisted I learn the impor- General Electric, retired body else wanted to buy. That was the tance of hard work. I was not alone. Maryana Bradas Business Wire Cleveland of my youth. Cleveland is filled with thousands of Each one of the members of the genera- people who learned that same lesson. So M. Jane Christyson Cleveland Metroparks tion in front of me had survived 12 years when somebody says we are in a tough Howard Fencl way economically in Cleveland, I under- of the Great Depression and four years of WKYC -TV3 World War II. When the Korean War came stand the economic picture. But I also Bonnie Godbey realize we have to keep in mind that we along, they muscled through that time Bruce Hennes period, too. continued on page 5> Hennes Paynter Communications Lisa Lowry The Press Club March Anniversary WKYC- TV3 David Marburger 12 years 3 years David Liam Kyle Baker & Hostetler Maria Magnelli Lisa Bess Kramer William Johnson Lee Moran The News-Herald 8 years 2 years 1 year Tom Mulloy Steve Gleydura Don Baker Sheila Miller Tom Mulloy Photography Julie Haug Feagler Mary Patton Chris Geiselman Join Us on Mary Patton Patton Public Relations Elizabeth Sullivan Denise Polverine 4 years cleveland.com Dave Lange Felizia Haney 4 The Press Club of Cleveland March 2011

The Press Club of Cleveland Hall of Fame Selection Committee is calling for nominations for induction into The Press Club of Cleveland’s Hall of Fame.

The deadline for nomination is Friday, April 15, 2011

Criteria: • The nominee must have made notable contributions to broadcast or print journalism in Cleveland and . • They have demonstrated exceptional leadership, courage or contributions to the news industry. • They either have worked in the Cleveland area or, had an exceptional career here before going elsewhere.

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Journalist: Print, online, broadcast, freelance and social media (blogger) journalists working for an accredited media company in the area (includes Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina counties). Associate: Public relations, corporate communications, marketing and advertising professionals, including corporate and non-profit freelancers and bloggers, working in the Greater Cleveland area, as well as others who share an interest in or are allied with the media and communications professionals, including sources; political, civic and business professionals; personal bloggers; and vendors. Affiliate: Non-local professionals and associates working outside of Greater Cleveland, retirees, educators and students March 2011 The Press Club of Cleveland 5 Carl Hirsch, Driving Force Behind WMMS,WHK, WMJI, and Rock Hall, Dead at 65 Carl Hirsch passed away unexpectedly broadcasting there. By age 33, he was March 1 of an apparent heart attack. president of Malrite Communications, Hirsch was the driving force in the suc- which owned WHK-AM and WMMS-FM. cesses of WMMS, WHK, WMJI, and other With his encouragement, WMMS adopted Cleveland radio properties for more than the Buzzard mascot and a “” 30 years. slogan. They led the local market for John Gorman, a colleague for many of years. those years, said, “Carl was the driving Hirsch and his two siblings funded the force in the successes of WMMS, Z100, William B. Hirsch Family Cancer Center at WMJI and other Malrite, Legacy and Hillcrest Hospital in their father’s memo- OmniAmerica radio properties over three ry. He also funded a Carl E. Hirsch Family decades. He had only two rules: don’t Lounge at the Cleveland Clinic Florida make the same mistake twice, and don’t Health and Wellness Center in West Palm jeopardize the license. He fostered and Beach and a Hirsch Media Convergence encouraged creativity and taking chances.” Laboratory at Kent State. Carl Hirsch and Fiancee Cappy Abraham Hirsch is also credited with helping to He received an honorary doctorate from start the Hall of Fame and Kent State and served on boards for the Contributions: Lerner Research Institute Museum and book many stars for local Clinic, National Association of Broadcasters Hirsch Fund or Palm Beach Wellness gigs. and Radio Advertising Bureau. He was Expansion Fund, both at Cleveland Clinic, He graduated from Shaker Heights, inducted into the Cleveland Association of P.O. Box 931517, Cleveland Ohio 44193- went to Kent State University and started Broadcasters Hall of Fame. 1655, giving.ccf.org.

RALLY THE FORCES < from page 3 workforce is still here, toughing through of higher education, which have distin- can come back. We are a tough people – or these times. The nation should keep in guished themselves by providing real the descendants of tough people. That mind America needs to build things again. brainpower to the world. But there is strong work ethic is in our blood. It’s part It needs to employ people who work with much more to do. We need to get other of the bloodline; it’s part of the city’s heri- their hands, and their hearts, and their types of jobs going, as well. tage. guts. The clothes on the backs of my family I know America is filled with men and Cleveland is glad to have the newer jobs members in my youth came from manu- women who can do the work if there is that the 21st century has brought. There facturing. Clevelanders need to know work to be done. Business people, looking is the city is in the process of those manufacturing jobs are some of the to set up shop somewhere, should look to reinventing itself with much emphasis ones we know best. Those jobs are in our Cleveland. In this city they would find a on medicine. Ground has been broken for heritages; in our bloodlines. Handling the workforce ready to do the lifting of build- the Medical Mart. It will work nicely with hard work is what we do. So when we start ing something, or creating something, or the big medical gemstones of Cleveland the engineering and construction work of bringing a service to the world’s needs. – Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals rebuilding our infrastructures – bridges, When this nation went off to war, of Cleveland and MetroHealth Medical sewer and water lines, roads – call on Cleveland, Akron, Lorain, Sandusky, Center. Cleveland. America, we’ve done it before. Canton, Massillon and a lot of other com- Add that to our superb institutions Cleveland is ready to do it again. munities in Northeast Ohio, were there. The steel, rubber, copper, brass, textiles and other products were represented in the armaments and articles of war. Civilian workers were at their machines around the clock, showing the might of America to the enemies of America. The manufacturing might of the nation was evident in every dropped bomb or fired shell. The world has changed greatly in the last few decades. The empty factories that dot some parts of Cleveland speak to that. Many jobs have been shipped overseas or simply eased out of the plans of the peo- ple who run big businesses. However, the 6 The Press Club of Cleveland March 2011 Bob McBride, Former WKYC-TV News Anchor, Betty Klaric Dead at 84 < from page 2 as and novelist Eudora Welty. Bob McBride anchored delivered editorials on ’s WJBK- Statewide honors came from Gov- news shows on WKYC-TV TV, always signing off with, “What do you ernor James Rhodes, the Ohio News- for two of his many years think?” paper Women’s Association, the Ohio in the media. McBride He briefly left retirement in 1986 for League of Sportsmen, the Ohio Conser- died Feb. 1 at a nursing WKYC. At first, he teamed with Doreen vation Congress and the Environmental home in Alexandria, Va. Gentzler on the 6 and 11 p.m. news and Protection Agency. He was 84. later soloed at 6 and teamed with Leon In 1982, she was stunned by the He was born Robert Bibb at 11. Press’s demise. “We knew the Press James McBride Jr. in and raised McBride won many awards from the was teetering, but we always thought partly in Washington, D.C. As a young Associated Press, Radio-Television News we’d merge with The Plain Dealer and boy, he’d read aloud through an open Directors Association and other groups. survive. The next day, I contributed to window to passers-by. He also led the Association of one of the stories on the closing of the At 16, he became a copy boy for U.S. Broadcasters. Press. It was a sad day for Cleveland.” News and World Report. He spent many His wife, Cynthia Martin McBride, died But Betty had taken nothing for years with newspapers, radio stations in 2007. Survivors include two daughters granted. She’d already begun studying and television stations in Virginia, and a grandson. at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Chicago, D.C. and Detroit. He led market By Grant Segall courtesy of The Plain In 1984, she earned a legal doctorate research for the Detroit Free Press and Dealer with high honors. Betty retired in 1997 and began to John Cole, Lorain Morning Journal, Dead at 61 volunteer for the Legal Aid Society of Former Lorain Morning Journal editor John Cole died in Cleveland. In 2000, she became a part- his sleep at home in Avon Lake on Feb. 3, after years of car- time community education specialist diac and kidney problems. He was 61. there, writing brochures and newslet- Cole was raised in Springfield, Ohio and became a report- ters. er at his hometown Springfield Sun. He joined The Morning Betty lived in Euclid and later High- Journal in 1974 as a reporter. land Heights. She belonged to the Over the next five years, Cole rose to city editor, manag- American Civil Liberties Union, the ing editor and editor, reaching the top job at age 29. He re- Theta Sigma Phi sorority and other tired from the Journal in 2008. groups. Read Regina Brett’s personal tribute to John Cole: Contributions: American Civil Liber- ties Union of Ohio, 4506 Chester Ave., http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2011/02/ Cleveland, OH 44103, acluohio.org; or memories_of_first_boss_endure.html Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, 1223 W. Sixth St., Cleveland, OH 44113, lasclev. org. By Grant Segall and the Byliner staff. Newspapers Thriving Online Courtesy of The Plain Dealer According to comScore data cited by the revenues from newspaper Web sites are Newspaper Association of America, news- also growing, including an 11% increase papers are not dying - at least online. between the third quarter of 2009 and An average of 105.3 million people per the third quarter of 2010, to $690 mil- month visited a newspaper Web site dur- lion. (Fourth-quarter figures are still being ing the fourth quarter of 2010, 105.3 mil- tallied). Despite the growth, newspapers’ lion in October, 106.7 million in Novem- huge online audience -- perhaps the larg- A publication of ber and 103.9 million in December. est of any traditional media -- has failed to The Press Club of Cleveland These visitors spent an average of 3.4 generate sufficient revenues to offset print billion minutes per month browsing news- declines. Editor paper Web sites, generating an average 4.1 Between 2005 and 2009, newspapers’ Lee Moran billion page views per month. That works total print ad revenues dropped 47.7% Associate Editor out to about 32.3 minutes and 38.9 page from $47.4 billion to $24.8 billion -- while Maryana Bradas views per individual per month, accord- their online revenues edged up from $2.02 Contributing Reporters ing to a report published by Media Daily billion to $2.73 billion over the same peri- Stu Warner News. od. (That includes two years of consecutive Ed Byers The NAA noted that online advertising declines in 2008 and 2009.) March 2011 March 2011 The Press Club of Cleveland 7 Virtual News Room < from page 1 a slow day. Tuesday, at least 75 were to output a story from Hudson as it is did that right after a rewrite of the story dead in the earthquake in New Zealand of the Northeast Ohio man who proposed from New York. by the time I woke up. Lauren already I work primarily with a regular group of on Fox 8. Rewrites are part of what we do, had survivors on the phone. Later, four too. U.S. reporters producing original content. Americans were reported killed by Somali I also help edit breaking news. Mara Gay, a New York-based reporter, pirates, by far the favorite of our readers. was gathering string for an AOL Original However, the week of Feb. 21, our We published wire copy first, then executive news editor, Marty Steinberg, on the growing war against abortion in supplemented it with our own reporting. the South, the Midwest and even in New took a well-deserved week of vacation. Throughout the week, we also got Marty is a veteran of the national desk York City. That would be ready to stir the stories from our reporters in Bahrain pot on the weekend. at The Associated Press; he’s accustomed and Jerusalem as well as numerous to the fast pace. I was a projects editor Finally, I had to find time to edit a contributors in the U.S. Our courts/cops piece by our Haiti correspondent, Emily for most of the past decade. But now, writer David Lohr, based in Erie, Pa., had for a week, I was going to have to handle Troutman, about a chance meeting the arrest of the suspect of that double between presidential candidate Mirlande Marty’s job, coordinating our reporters slaying in Ashtabula before Ohio papers across the globe. Manigat and a teenage mother, Alexandra did. Delophene. “Haiti’s presidential race is a I had learned from Marty several sites Libya continued to dominate the that provide a good overview of the news. battle for Alexandra’s vote,” Emily wrote. world stage – but AOL readers couldn’t “But also, for Alexandra.” Naturally, we have the AP report for the get enough of the events in Wisconsin, big stuff. Newser.com is an excellent Subtle articles like that don’t always do where thousands protested the governor’s as well in this virtual news world, but I’m site for finding the stories that do well proposal to end union bargaining. among online readers. Google Trends tells glad there’s still a place for them. Stories related to Wisconsin or similar And then my week was done. Whew! you what’s hot at any given moment in demonstrations ranked 1 thru 10 on our the day. RSS feeds and provide Thank goodness Marty was already home most-commented list. and would be back in the real office on even more information. I also keep CNN By Friday morning, Gadhafi and Libya on all day long. And, of course, we pay Monday. seemed to be spinning out of control, Two weeks after this close attention to what’s playing on the so we kept a running story online, with Huffington Post, which will soon merge article was written, AOL three reporters updating it constantly and News fired almost its en- with us. producing sidebars, too. When I turned on my computer in tire news operation to ac- Of course, there was much more going comodate its merger with my basement office at 5:30 a.m. that on. Tori Richards, our regular Monday, our reporters based in Europe HuffingtonPost. Warner reporter, worked overnight to produce remained employed as a were already busy producing stories on a tale worthy of an episode of “Law and the growing unrest in Libya. Lauren contract editor. Order.” Thursday, an LA restaurateur dove Frayer, from Madrid, talked to experts off an 80-foot cliff after he learned that who wondered why dictator Moammar police were going to charge him with the Gadhafi hadn’t been seen since Friday. murder of his missing wife. He survived Theunis Bates, from London, reported the fall. Dun-dun. Our readers devoured on the criticism heaped on the British that one. government for its cozy relationship with The AP reported that three Amish kids a man many considered a tyrant. Their had died in a flood-swollen creek in a reporting foreshadowed what was going to remote area in Western Kentucky. Lohr be a busy week on reports out of Libya. started a follow-up story about the hopes But an interview with Sen. Scott Brown that the fourth child in the buggy was still by freelancer Michele McPhee and the alive. Not five minutes after he finished details of the brutal treatment against that story, though, wire reports said CBS correspondent Lara Logan during the searchers found the fourth body. David Egypt uprising played even bigger with retrenched and put together a touching our readers. A five-paragraph rewrite of story on the failed rescue efforts. the Logan story – we couldn’t get our own Meanwhile, contract writer Lisa Holewa, comments – would produce a half million based in Milwaukee, found a family page views by the end of the week as our divided over the union protests that version of the story got picked up by a were intensifying in Wisconsin. Dana variety of American news sites. Chivvis, our education reporter, compiled Reporters produced a couple dozen a roundup of the labor movement other stories Monday, edited by me and throughout the rest of the Midwest. She two part-time line editors. And that was