Mark Monroe receives ECHL media award
In early June, Monroe was selected winner of the 2015-16 ECHL Outstanding Media Award. He has covered professional hockey for The Blade for nine seasons.
Photo staff captures 8 Ohio awards
The Blade photo staff won eight awards in the 2015 Ohio News Photographers Associations annual photo contest. Our winning team photo story chronicled the death of Mayor D. Michael Collins.
Mercy changes its name to Mercy Health
The second largest health group in northwest Ohio has a new name. It is Mercy Health. It is no longer Mercy Health Partners.
Take out the ‘Spotlight’ movie
The Blade newsroom has a copy of the Academy-Award winning movie 'Spotlight'. See Jordie Henry in the library if you are interested in checking out the DVD.
McCray, Svoboda, Dutton win April Eddys
Vanessa McCray wins the News Eddy, Jeff Svoboda takes home the Desk Eddy and Lisa Dutton captures the Visual Eddy.
New Blade website in testing stage
As you may have heard from a co-worker, or read in Editor & Publisher, toledoblade.com is being redesigned. The new look, which has been months in development, will be more visual, and will provide us with better display of stories, photos and videos.
Meet Michelle Liu
Michelle will be a junior at Yale University when classes resume for the fall semester. She is studying art history.
Meet Gabby Deutch
Gabby was born in Cleveland but grew up in Boca Raton, Fla. She will be a junior this fall at Yale University, studying political history.
Meet Elena Saavedra Buckley
Elena will be a rising junior in Yale's Humanities program when she returns to classes this fall. She is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her family lives in the North Valley by the river.
Meet Cameron Hart
Cameron, our photo intern this summer, is a senior at Pennsylvania State University, majoring in Visual Journalism and Business. At Penn State, he works at the student-run newspaper, The Daily Collegian, as a staff photographer.