
McClatchy to Sell the Akron Beacon Journal to Black Press Ltd."Baseball Hall of Fame: Former Beacon Journal writer Sheldon Ocker honored with J.G. ^ "Ocker to receive Hall of Fame's Spink Award".^ "Sheldon Ocker wins Hall of Fame's Spink Award".^ "Beacon Journal to be printed in Canton". The areas most recent obituaries, delivered straight to your inbox.^ "Akron Beacon Journal sold to GateHouse Media".1994 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for race relations series: "A Question of Color".1987 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for coverage of potential Goodyear takeover: "The Goodyear War".1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Local Reporting for coverage of Kent State Shootings.Jeffrey, according to school sources, was also having his own diffi. Knight) for Vietnam War weekly notebook columns Akron Beacon Journal as anonymous background sources after Dahmer's arrest. 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing ( John S.Wrote more than 20 books, mostly about Northeast Ohio sports. Terry Pluto: recognized as NSSA Ohio Sportswriter of the year multiple times.Taylor Spink Award inducted him into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Prosecutors: Akron woman fatally stabbed mom, lied to cover up crime Retired Judge Paul J. Sheldon Ocker: Covered the Cleveland Indians for the Beacon Journal. Bob Young resigns from Ohio House amid domestic violence case.While working at the Akron Beacon Journal, his desk sat adjacent to that of writer Josephine van der Grift, columnist of Demi-Tasse and Mrs. Herman Fetzer: better known as "Jake Falstaff" to the Akron Beacon Journal, Akron Times and Cleveland Press readers, worked as suburban reporter for the Akron Times, where in 1920 he began his column Pippins and Cheese, taking its title and his pen name from William Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.Notable journalists Headquarters from 1938 to 2019 Akronites gather to pray at park where 2 youths were hurt in shooting. Coffee, boba, pizza and more: Stow restaurants that opened in August. Cheaper homes, rentals lead Summit increases for property reappraisals. As of March 2019 it was using the presses at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Akron mother gets prison time for deaths of children in house fire. It subsequently used the presses at The Repository in Canton, Ohio, also owned by GateHouse. On November 11, 2013, the Akron Beacon Journal printed its last paper in-house. In 2018, GateHouse Media bought the newspaper. On August 2, 2006, McClatchy sold the Beacon Journal to Black Press. The McClatchy Company bought Knight Ridder in June 2006 with intentions of selling 12 Knight Ridder newspapers. The Beacon Journal under Knight was the original and flagship newspaper of Knight Newspaper Company, later called Knight Ridder. Knight inherited the paper, in 1933, on Charles' death. In 1903, the Beacon Journal was purchased by Charles Landon Knight. The paper was founded with the 1897 merger of the Summit Beacon, first published in 1839, and the Akron Evening Journal, founded in 1896. The Beacon Journal has won four Pulitzer Prizes: in 1968, 1971, 19. The paper's coverage focuses on local news. Owned by Gannett, it is the sole daily newspaper in Akron and is distributed throughout Northeast Ohio. In July 2019, Buckeye left his engineering job and started Buckeye Brownies.The Akron Beacon Journal is a morning newspaper in Akron, Ohio, United States. If you want something to come true, you need to put in the time." I put my personal life on the backburner. "I was baking brownies and posting them on Facebook, and people were offering me money for them. "You are one decision away from completely changing your life," Buckeye said. to midnight and get them ready for delivery. He worked at Turner Construction, designing buildings and supervising construction crews.īut after his 9-to-5 job, he would go home and bake brownies from 7 p.m. Change Agent: Sweet tooth leads to sweet Buckeye Brownies business for Akron bodybuilderĪlthough he may not have realized it at the time, Zachary Buckeye's future would be determined by his mother's brownies.īuckeye, 27, a 2012 graduate from Twinsburg High School, earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Akron in 2017.
