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Touchstone 2020 Date Announced!

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The date for the 2020 Touchstone Awards has been announced.  The ceremony will take place on October 21, 2020.  More details to come…we’ll be announcing our speaker and community awards in the coming days and entries for the journalism awards will be open soon.

Please Nominate Someone Who Has Made A Positive Community Impact

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The Press Club of Toledo is proud to recognize the achievements of local journalists and community leaders each year at the annual Touchstone Awards dinner. We are now accepting nominations for our three community awards:  Lifetime Achievement Award, Touchstone Contributor, and Golden Touchstone. 

 

  • The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes long-term efforts to enhance the quality of life in Northwest Ohio.  This award goes to those who have made an impact through professional and/or philanthropic achievements throughout their lives. 
  • The Touchstone Contributor Award also recognizes outstanding contributions to the community, but specifically someone who has made a significant impact on the quality of life in the Northwest Ohio region over the past year.    
  • The Golden Touchstone Award recognizes lifetime achievement in the field of journalism in Northwest Ohio. 

There are many worthy candidates for each of these awards, especially during these extraordinary times.  Won’t you please take a moment to nominate someone you have seen make a difference?   Please submit the person’s name, title, and a brief paragraph on why you think they deserve the award and send to pressclub@bex.net.   You may also send any questions or inquiries to that address.  Don’t hesitate! The deadline for nominations in these three categories is June 3, 2020. 

The recipients will be announced in June and will be honored at the annual Press Club Touchstone Award dinner in October.   

Entries for Press Club of Toledo journalism awards will open in June.  These awards recognize work published between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020.  Start looking through your work now to be ready to submit!  

Virtual Town Hall a Success

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Thank you to everyone who attended our Pressing Issues/Virtual Town Hall last night. We were happy to have 40 people join the meeting, representing our region’s leading communicators and journalists. It was a robust conversation about the historic times we are living in. Two broad takeaways.

1. It was great to see everyone….we really do thrive on relationships.

2. Everyone in communications is doing vital work and the commitment to serving all of our stakeholders was heartening.

Press Club to Host Virtual Town Hall

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The Press Club of Toledo will be hosting a virtual Town Hall on the impact of the Coronavirus on media and communications in our region.  We will have representatives of our major media outlets as well as other community leaders.  This is a once-in-a-lifetime event and we urge you to participate.  

The event will be held from 7-9 PM on Wednesday, April 22.  Please email pressclub@bex.net for login information.

Press Club Welcomes Three New Board Members

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The Press Club of Toledo is proud to announce three new board members for 2020.

Dave Kielmeyer is the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Bowling Green State University. He is responsible for leading BGSU’s branding, marketing and public relations strategies. He also oversees the University’s public broadcasting station, WBGU-TV.

Kielmeyer directed the in-house development and launch of the University’s brand update – “Belong. Stand Out. Go Far.” Now in its third year, the brand and accompanying multiplatform strategy have helped drive enrollment growth and consecutively recruit the most academically prepared freshman classes in University history.

Before rising to his current position in 2015, Kielmeyer served as the University’s Senior Director of Communications, with responsibility for public relations, internal communications and crisis communications.

Prior to joining BGSU in 2008, he was Vice president of account services for FLS Marketing, a Toledo marketing and public relations firm, where he provided counsel on branding, advertising, marketing, and public relations to a broad range of corporate, nonprofit and civic clients.

Matt Schroder is currently a Communications Leader on the Corporate Affairs team. In this role, Matt has responsibility for connecting and engaging Owens Corning Roofing employees by elevating the employee and other stakeholder experience with impactful communications.

Overall, he has more than 27 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, marketing and journalism. Since joining Owens Corning in 2011, Matt has had key communication roles in the quarterly earnings reporting; transitioning a new Roofing president; safety initiatives such as the company’s landmark mobile phone policy and the Green Cross Medal for Safety award; the company’s 75th anniversary; rebuilding the intranet; the acquisition of our coated wovens business (InterWrap); the Green Cross Medal for Safety award; and several United Way kick-off events.

Prior to rejoining Owens Corning, Matt spent 15 years developing strategies and executing clients’ marketing, public relations, media relations and crisis communication campaigns for several regional agencies in Toledo, Ohio. He began his career as a newspaper editor and reporter in several cities across Ohio.

Lauren Weppler is the News Director at WTOL-TV and WUPW in Toledo Ohio. Prior to being named news director, she was Assistant News Director for four years.  A broadcast journalism graduate from West Liberty University in Wheeling, W.V., Weppler came to WTOL after a stint at WMBF-TV, Channel 32, the NBC affiliate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., as a reporter and executive producer of the station’s morning newscasts, and before that as the evening anchor of a station in Beckly, W.V.