Akron's Daily Miracle
Reporting the News in the Rubber City
Published on 8. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-62922-194-6 (ISBN)
Description
Akron's Daily Miracle is a collection of essays from those who produced the news in the Rubber City, written to remind readers of the value of excellent local journalism and why we must not lose it.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62922-194-6 (9781629221946)
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Stuart Warner is best known in Akron for writing a local column called Warner's Corner and for his solos at TubaChristmas. At the Akron Beacon Journal, he also served in several editing positions, including associate managing editor. He was part of the teams that won Pulitzers for covering the attempted takeover of Goodyear and race relations in Akron. As writing coach at the Cleveland Plain Dealer he edited four Pulitzer finalists, including Connie Schultz's columns that won the Pulitzer for commentary.Deb Van Tassel Warner joined the Akron Beacon Journal in 1982 and held various editing positions, including supervising local coverage of the attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and as news editor for A Question of Color, two of the paper's Pulitzer Prize winning initiatives. She also edited the award-winning series and book, Wheels of Fortune, about Akron's rubber industry, and relaunched the newspaper's popular Sunday Beacon Magazine. She joined The Plain Dealer in 1999 and oversaw award-winning coverage of the collapse and rebirth of Cleveland's steel industry and edited the acclaimed special report "Beyond Rape" by Joanna Connors. I