Meet Ron Seibel
Ron is a Toledo-area native. He joins The Blade from the Albany (Ga.) Herald, where he was the sports editor.
Meet Ashley Bastock
Ashley joins our sports department. She has been freelancing for the Cleveland AP bureau, SB Nation and NEOSportsInsiders.com. She also worked as a Tim Russert Fellow at NBC's 'Meet the Press'.
Meet Dave Barkholz
Dave comes to the Blade with 33 years experience as a business and finance reporter. He has worked at Automotive News and other Crain Communications publications.
Meet Kate Mitchell
Kate joins The Blade from The Daily Telegram in Adrian, Mich. She is working on our copy desk as a paginator and copy editor.
Meet Liz Skalka
Liz comes to The Blade from Connecticut, where she was an enterprise/general assignment reporter for the Stamford Advocate. Liz is covering politics for The Blade.
Meet Kate Snyder
Kate joins The Blade from the Zanesville Times Recorder. She will helps us with coverage of cops, courts and general assignment.
Meet Scott Albert
Scott joins the digital desk as a web editor and Blade NewsSlide editor. He has worked at the Union-Tribune in San Diego, the Orange County Register, the Detroit Free Press, and the Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
Meet Tony Raap
Tony is the new night city editor. He comes to The Blade from the Pittsburgh area, where he was an assistant city editor at the Tribune-Review in Greensburg. Before that, he was a reporter at the Pittsburgh Trib.
Meet Ed Wright
Ed is working on the digital team. He served two stints as a sports editor/writer for a suburban Detroit-based division of Gannett Co., Inc. from 2004 to 2016.
Meet Jim Hemphill
Jim is an editorial writer on The Blade's editorial board. He is a 2015 graduate of The College of William and Mary.