Vice President, The Press Club of Cleveland

(Contributing Editor at AOL News)

Stuart Warner has developed a national reputation as an editor and teacher of literary journalism. He has written or edited three Pulitzer Prize-winning entries and edited three other Pulitzer finalists. He also developed a Write for New Media course at Case Western Reserve University.

Warner's 20,000-word narrative, The Goodyear War, was the centerpiece of the Akron Beacon Journal’s 1987 Pulitzer-winning effort. He supervised the 1994 Pulitzer Gold Medal winning project A Question of Color. At the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, he edited Connie Schultz’s columns that won the 2005 Pulitzer for commentary and he edited Schultz’s 25,000-word series Burden of Innocence, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in feature writing. He also edited the columns of Regina Brett, who was a finalist in 2008 and 2009 for the Pulitzer for commentary.

Warner’s writers have won just about every major national award for newspaper writing, including the Silver Gavel, the Molly Ivins Award, the Dart Award, the James Batten Medal, the National Headliner and the Paul Myhre Award for feature writing.
In 2006 alone, seven of the writers he edits won national awards. At the 2005 Nieman Conference on Narrative Writing, then Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll singled out The Plain Dealer, where Warner works as writing coach and projects editor, as one of the five newspapers in the country producing great narrative writing.

Warner has been invited to speak on writing at the Nieman narrative conference, the National Writers Workshop sponsored by the Poynter Institute, the IRE’s national Computer Assisted Reporting workshop and at Capitolbeat, the national seminar for state government reporters. He has his own writing consulting company, The Write Coach LLC, and also has taught literary journalism at Cleveland State University and Case Western.

Warner recently completed a non-fiction book, “JOCK: A Coach's Story."