Blade staff wins 18 state photo awards

Three first place awards were among the 18 won by The Blade photo staff in the 2017 Ohio News Photographers  Association contest. Check out the winners.

Blade captures 6 key Ohio SPJ awards

The Blade wins Best Columnist ( Keith Burris) and Best Website and finishes second for Best Newspaper in the large newspaper category. Vanessa McCray, Lauren Lindstrom and Tom Henry also were given first-place awards. Check out the entire list of winners.

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.