Richard (Dick) Morris, vice president & general manager of the Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune, has been elected president of The Ohio Newspaper Association. The election took place at the board of trustees meeting held during ONA’s 2010 convention last week at the Columbus Hilton. Morris succeeds H. Kenneth (Ken) Douthit, president of Douthit Communications, who [...]

ONA members will see the rollout of a new and improved libel insurance program thanks to action taken by the board of trustees at its Feb. 10 meeting. Details of the program will be coming from Walterry Insurance Brokers of Clinton, MD. The new plan is the result of deliberations last year by a task [...]

ONA’s annual sharing session for NIE coordinators is scheduled for Thursday, March 25, at The Columbus Dispatch Production & Distribution Center on Columbus’s Westside. The half-day gathering is underwritten by The Ohio Newspapers Foundation and is free for any ONA member. The Sharing Session runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and includes lunch. The [...]

During the Feb. 11 awards presentation at the ONA Convention, the following winners were announced for ONA’s first-ever Ohio Collegiate Newspaper & Website Competition as well as the annual Osman Hooper competition for ONA-member weekly newspapers: General Excellence—Collegiate Newspapers The Daily Kent Stater, Kent State University Best Collegiate Newspaper Website The Daily Kent Stater, Kent [...]