Cleveland star chef Rocco Whalen will open a second outpost of his popular Fahrenheit in Charlotte in October, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He told the paper it will be the city's first open-air rooftop restaurant, 20 floors up in The Skye Condominiums at Third and Caldwell streets uptown. Show More Summary
The Browns used the roster spot created by waiving quarterback Thaddeus Lewis by extending the career of a guy who has been with more than 20 percent of the league already. According to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Browns signed wide receiver Tori Gurley. Gurley was viewed as a promising prospect,…
Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden told The Plain Dealer that he wasn't given any advance warning that the team was going to sign Brian Hoyer, and that he hasn't been told of Hoyer's role. "It's part of this business, and if you start worrying about it, that's too much to worry about," Weeden said. Show More Summary
BBC admits error in piece claiming that race placed a role in the Plain Dealer’s missing girls coverage. (journalism.about.com) | Earlier: Cleveland editor responds to BBC: (jimromenesko.com) AP Washington bureau chief Sally Buzbee was one of the journalists targeted in DOJ’s phone records seizure. (huffingtonpost.com) David Carr: Some are worried that Big … Read More
The Plain Dealer 's coverage of the Cleveland kidnapping case has been nothing short of riveting, but it will be the paper's "last hurrah," writes Justin Peters on Slate. This summer, at least 53 members of its staff are being laid off, and the paper will deliver only three days...
A section of the Web site of the Cleveland Plain Dealer devoted to coverage of this week’s dramatic rescue of three Cleveland women from years of captivity by a sadistic abuser has a link to frequently asked questions: “What is happening...Show More Summary
From The Plain Dealer: A gripping account of the moments just before and during the rescue of three young women and a little girl from the home where they had been held captive.
Tara McKelvey wrote in a Thursday BBC News piece (“Cleveland abductions: Do whites gets more attention?”) that in the 10 years Amanda Berry was missing, the Plain Dealer newspaper published 36 articles about the white girl. The report claimed the Cleveland the paper, over nine years, ran 19 articles about Gina DeJesus, who is Hispanic. … Read More
CNN has acquired rights to replays of the TNT program “Boston’s Finest.” The show was just picked up for a second season. The Cleveland Plain Dealer talks to some national TV news personalities about scrambling to their fair city toShow More Summary
From PBS NewsHour in Washington: Details have emerged about the specific ordeal endured by three women held captive in a Cleveland home for 10 years. Ray Suarez talks with Peter Krouse of The Cleveland Plain Dealer about the “dungeon-like” conditions, the charges against suspect Ariel Castro and reports of neighbors trying to report Castro to [...]
The first charges in the Cleveland kidnapping case have been filed, and Ariel Castro faces four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, reports the Plain Dealer. Authorities, however, say his brothers Onil and Pedro will not be charged because no evidence suggests they were involved. The two men...
Needless to say, the kidnapping case in Cleveland has garnered a ton of media attention now that the three women -- Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michele Knight -- have been recovered from the house in which they were kept prisoner for a decade. But before it became a national story, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett was on the...
Friends and neighbors of the Castro brothers say there is nothing about the three men that signaled they were capable of a crime as horrific as the kidnap and decade-long imprisonment of three young women, the Cleveland Plain Dealer finds. Onil, 50, Ariel, 52, Pedro, 54 are members of a...
Browns defensive end Armonty Bryant pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor DUI charges brought against him in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Bryant received a one-year deferred sentence in return for his plea. Bryant was arrested on Friday and had a blood alcohol content of 0.98 according…
The third kidnapping victim, Michelle Knight, who was also discovered alive after missing for a decade, was little known to the public. A story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer explains that while the mystery of the missing women Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry had gripped the city for 10 years Knight, 18 at the time [...]
Held Captive: Three women missing for years escaped from a house Monday in the same Cleveland neighborhood where they were held captive, and police arrested a man in connection with their disappearance, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The man who...
(Jonathan H. Adler) Today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer has an interesting investigative report on how mine operators fight mine safety penalties imposed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Here’s a taste: Critics say that in fighting back, mine owners are clogging up the appeals process and wearing down a system that lacks resources to match the challenge. Like [...]
Today Cleveland.com [associated with the Cleveland Plain Dealer] is running a textbook example of how the myth of the Black Confederate soldier is spread. Start off with what appears to be an unusual story of two black individuals who play Confederate soldiers. Treat them as authorities in the relevant history and fail to do any [...]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer's coverage of the murder of Cemia Acoff, a transgender woman whose body was found tied to a block of concrete at the bottom of a pond after being stabbed repeatedly, is being denounced by LGBT rights...
Most newspapers leave the dehumanization of transgender people to the trolls in the online comments. But not Cleveland's Plain Dealer. They bring the sewage right to the surface. Their article about the discovery of the body of a brutally murdered 20 year old African-American woman, C. Show More Summary