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2021 Hooper and Collegiate winners
On February 26 the ONMA hosted the virtual award ceremonies for the Osman C. Hooper Non-Daily Newspaper Competition, which recognizes the best non-daily newspapers in Ohio, and the Ohio Collegiate Newspaper and Website Competition, which recognizes the achievements of Ohio’s college and university newspapers.
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I wanted to be sure you were sitting when you read these words: “I honestly believe it’s a great time to be in the print business.”
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read moreThe truth still matters
A functioning society has certain agreed upon facts and sets of standards. If one plus two equals three and someone insists it’s four, would we all just go along with that because we didn’t want to “make waves”?
read more[Duplicate] Only you can save journalism from lazy reporting and trite tweets
I’d like to challenge editors and reporters to do something. Not just for me, for all of us.
read moreIt's up to you to help fight disinformation
By now we have all heard the term “disinformation” – but are you sure you would recognize it if you saw or read something that fell into that category?
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