Knight) for Vietnam War weekly notebook columns 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing ( John S.Wrote more than 20 books, mostly about Northeast Ohio sports. Terry Pluto: recognized as NSSA Ohio Sportswriter of the year multiple times.Taylor Spink Award inducted him into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Sheldon Ocker: Covered the Cleveland Indians for the Beacon Journal. While working at the Akron Beacon Journal, his desk sat adjacent to that of writer Josephine van der Grift, columnist of Demi-Tasse and Mrs. Herman Fetzer: better known as "Jake Falstaff" to the Akron Beacon Journal, Akron Times and Cleveland Press readers, worked as suburban reporter for the Akron Times, where in 1920 he began his column Pippins and Cheese, taking its title and his pen name from William Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.As of March 2019 it was using the presses at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. It subsequently used the presses at The Repository in Canton, Ohio, also owned by GateHouse. On November 11, 2013, the Akron Beacon Journal printed its last paper in-house. In 2018, GateHouse Media bought the newspaper. On August 2, 2006, McClatchy sold the Beacon Journal to Black Press. The McClatchy Company bought Knight Ridder in June 2006 with intentions of selling 12 Knight Ridder newspapers. The Beacon Journal under Knight was the original and flagship newspaper of Knight Newspaper Company, later called Knight Ridder. Knight inherited the paper, in 1933, on Charles' death. In 1903, the Beacon Journal was purchased by Charles Landon Knight. The paper was founded with the 1897 merger of the Summit Beacon, first published in 1839, and the Akron Evening Journal, founded in 1896. The Beacon Journal has won four Pulitzer Prizes: in 1968, 1971, 19. The paper's coverage focuses on local news. Owned by Gannett, it is the sole daily newspaper in Akron and is distributed throughout Northeast Ohio. The Akron Beacon Journal is a morning newspaper in Akron, Ohio, United States.
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