Dyer 7-0 as Ohio's best columnist

Livingston has 3 1^st in Ohio contest

Bob Dyer

The Beacon Journal’s Bob Dyer was named Best Columnist in Ohio for the 7th consecutive year in the 2014 Ohio’s Best Journalism contest sponsored
by the Society of Professional Journalists chapters in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus.

The BJ’s Doug Livingston won three first places in K-12 education, children’s issues and explanatory reporting.

Since joining the Akron Beacon Journal in 1984, Bob’s stories and columns have won 60 regional and national awards.

In 2008, the National Society of Professional Journalists voted the Cleveland native Best Columnist in the Nation. In 2013, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists named him Best Humor Columnist in the Nation.

He was a lead writer for A Question of Color, a yearlong examination of racial attitudes in Akron that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

Bob has written three books. One of them, Omar! My Life On and Off the Field, an autobiography co-written with Cleveland Indians baseball star Omar Vizquel, spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 2002, peaking at No. 27 among hardcover nonfiction.

The same publisher released a collection of Dyer’s best columns, Blimp Pilot Terrorizes Akron and Other Hot Air