My history double endangered

Well, two newspapers I worked for are on the endangered species list.

The Akron Beacon Journal building and the Dayton Daily News building landed on Preservation Ohio’s List of Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites for 2019.

There are 13 structures on that list, and I made a living in two of them for 39 years of my 43-year newspaper career. The only two newspaper buildings on the list at that.

The BJ building went up in 1930 as the Akron-Times Press. In 1938 the BJ moved into the building after swallowing the Times-Press.

John Knight took his father’s debt-ridden newspaper and built it into a 32-newpaper marvel that stacked up Pulitizers like pancakes at Buzzards Return Day in Hinckley.

To read the full BJ artice, go to

http://akronbeaconjournal.oh.newsmemory.com/?token=6ed130069a116c8cf8d2fb53f433001b_5d0f85cc_d8a4&selDate=20190623&utm_source=emailMarketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email+stats