Angela Gartner has
been the editor and content director at Northeast Ohio Parent Magazine
since 2014. She has won local and national awards for her features,
columns and photography over the years. Previously, she was the editor
of community magazines at Hibu, Lake/Geauga/Akron Family magazines and an education reporter at The News-Herald. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Sun Newspapers and The Chicago Tribune. She
is also a past president at the Cleveland Pro Chapter of the Society of
Professional Journalists and works as an adjunct
communications professor at Cleveland State University.
Don Detore is
editor of Tire Business, a B2B trade publication owned by Crain
Communications Inc. that covers the tire and automotive service
industries. The publication has 33,000 subscribers, and several thousand
digital subscribers, most of whom are tire dealers or employed at tire
manufacturers.
Don
joined Crain as a designer with sister publication Rubber &
Plastics News in 2013. Later that year, he was named managing editor of
the publication, and in 2017 was named editor of Tire Business. Don
worked for 27 years at the Canton (Ohio) Repository, serving in several
roles, including Sports Editor, Managing Editor and Executive Editor.
Frank Esposito has
worked as a reporter for trade magazine Plastics News since 1997. Prior
to Plastics News, he spent a total of four years with Suburban News
Publications in Columbus and with the Medina County Gazette in Medina.
During his career, he’s won awards from the Associated Press, the
Cleveland Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists.
In
2021, Esposito published Unified Theory, a collection of his writing on
comic books, music, football and baseball. Some of these pieces had
been published elsewhere.
Michelle Simakis
has more than a decade of experience in publishing and media. She
joined Cannabis Business Times, one of the leading business magazines
serving plant-touching cannabis companies in the industry, in 2019. In
2021, she was recognized as one of Folio’s Top Women in Media, receiving
an “Up and Comers” award. Previously, she was editor of Garden Center
magazine, a trade publication serving independent garden centers, and
helped launch the brand’s first conference in 2018. Before joining GIE
Media in 2012, Simakis launched one of the first Patch websites in
Northeast Ohio, delivering daily news updates covering everything from
city council to crime to arts for residents of Cleveland Heights. She
has also contributed features to Cleveland-based news organizations such as The Land and Fresh Water Cleveland.
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