Marla Ridenour, covered
the Cleveland Browns for the BJ, was vacationing in a Santa Barbara County and
in a grocery line in Cambria, California, when she heard a voice behind her
say:
“Marla?
“Mizell.”
Marla said:
“It was Mizell
Stewart. He said he’d been there for a month and was leaving the next day.
Mizell and I go back to our Dayton Daily News days, where I worked from
1981-90. Talk about a small world.”
Mizell was at Dayton
before he came to the BJ as managing editor in 2006, reuniting with Marla whose
career began at the BJ in 1999. Twinsburg native and Bowling Green graduate
Mizell began his newspaper career at the Springfield News-Sun.
Dayton, Akron,
Tallahassee Democrat, back to the BJ, Evansville Courier & Express,
corporate stops at E.W. Scripps Company, Journal Media Group and Gannett/USA
TODAY network.
Mizell doesn’t have a
suitcase large enough for all his travel stickers to fit on them.
While Mizell
changes jobs more often than he changes underwear he stays with one woman. Wife
Valerie and Mizell have been married for 3 decades, give or take a few years in
either direction, and live in West Chester Township, which is near Middletown
and Hamilton and Cincinnati.
Marla
went from the Dayton Daily News and Mizell to the Columbus Dispatch before
arriving at the BJ in 1999.
She has covered the Browns, the
Indians, the Reds and the Bengals. And
made Hall of Fames in Ohio AND Kentucky media.
Marla even added a 2018 Cleveland
Press Club first place for an OBITUARY -- on legendary football coach Ara
Parseghian who brought national titles to Notre Dame in 1966 and 1973 and is in
the College Football Hall of Fame.
Marla accepted a Gannett buyout last
November which ended her BJ and newspaper career.
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