March 2011 Newsletter of the Press Club of Cleveland
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Join Us on March 2011 Newsletter of The Press Club of Cleveland 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, The Plain Dealer; 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, Ohio? 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. 28022 Osborn Road Cleveland, Ohio 44140 | 440.899.1222 | Fax: 440.899.1010 | www.pressclubcleveland.com 2 The Press Club of Cleveland March 2011 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 were 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.