Chris Quinn

1 month ago | cleveland.com | Chris Quinn

The wave of emails we’ve received this year from people angered by their inability to talk with or get meaningful responses from Ohio Republicans in Congress is like nothing I’ve seen in 45 years of journalism. Every day people send notes about their unsuccessful efforts to ask the leaders’ positions on Trump administration decisions or to lobby for them to take positions. They call the politicians cowards for refusing to hold town hall discussions with constituents.

1 month ago | cleveland.com | Chris Quinn

We hit the 5-year anniversary this month of Today in Ohio as a daily podcast discussion of the news in Ohio and Northeast Ohio, and to celebrate, we’re giving cleveland.com readers their own text-based version. We started the podcast as a weekly discussion in 2019, calling it This Week in the CLE. When the pandemic hit and many people sealed themselves up at home, we went five days a week. We thought a daily discussion might give the isolated masses a closer connection to the news – and to us.

2 months ago | cleveland.com | Chris Quinn

We began a journey with you nearly 12 years ago, to deal with the cataclysm that was then on the horizon for the newspaper industry, with our ultimate destination being a thriving news environment beyond the era of printed editions. Our company, Advance Local, had the foresight to understand that cataclysm. We reduced Plain Dealer delivery days and invested heavily in online journalism.

2 months ago | cleveland.com | Chris Quinn

The number of people who remember the days of draft boards dwindles with each passing month, but for about a day this week, we thought we might have a hot story about their return. Sometimes, a tip leads to a terrific story. And sometimes, as here, the work we do on a tip leads to a routine story. In this case, the tip was from someone with a long affiliation with the Selective Service System.

2 months ago | cleveland.com | Chris Quinn

I’ve hinted at this for almost two years, and on Tuesday it will be reality: The Plain Dealer will feature 65 additional comics on weekdays and Saturdays, with 16 in print and 49 in the digital edition of the newspaper. That brings the total to nearly 100. And we’ll feature 21 additional comics on Sundays, with 15 in print and six in the e-newspaper. Before I get to the details, I offer two predictions.