Bob Dyer
Bob Dyer (born March 4, 1952) is an American journalist who works for the Akron Beacon Journal and Ohio.com and is the author of three books, including one that spent four weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.[1]
He was one of the lead writers for A Question of Color, a yearlong examination of racial attitudes in Akron that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.[2]
A member of the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame,[3] he was named Best Columnist in the Nation in 2008 by the National Society of Professional Journalists.[4] In 2013, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists voted him Best Humor Columnist in the Nation.[5] He has been named Best Columnist in Ohio 10 times.[6]
In 2011, he appeared on the Dr. Phil show, arguing with Al Sharpton about the prosecution of an Akron woman who had been jailed for sending her children to the wrong school.[7] He also has been a guest on numerous national and local television and radio shows.
After graduating from The College of Wooster in 1974, Dyer worked from 1975 to 1983 for the Wooster (Ohio) Daily Record, handling a wide variety of reporting and editing responsibilities. He was associate news editor of the Daily Record when he left to help launch, edit and write for a new publication, a magazine-style weekly called the Wayne County Sunday Express. The free publication was, he said, "an artistic success but a financial flop," folding after six months because of a lack of advertising support.
He joined the Beacon Journal in 1984, initially working as a copy editor, then as a feature writer, radio/TV writer, investigative reporter and general-interest columnist.
His six-part investigative series on televangelist Ernest Angley in 2014 led to the U.S. Labor Department fining Angley $388,000.[8] A writer for Cleveland Scene magazine called the series “a touchstone of Northeast Ohio journalism.”[9]
In the summer of 2002, Dyer’s book Omar! My Life On and Off the Field, an autobiography co-written with Cleveland Indians baseball star Omar Vizquel, spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, peaking at No. 27 among hardcover nonfiction.[10]
In 2003, he wrote Cleveland Sports Legends, later issued in paperback and re-titled The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports.[11]
A collection of Dyer’s best Beacon Journal columns, Blimp Pilot Terrorizes Akron and Other Hot Air, was published in 2013.[12]
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- ↑ Dyer, Bob. "Omar Vizquel bio". Wikipedia. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob. "Between the lines, a measure of hurt". New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob (July 15, 2015). "Press Club Announces Inductees". Akron Beacon Journal. Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob. "Winner: Bob Dyer, Akron Beacon Journal". www.spj.org. Society of Professional Journalists. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob (July 1, 2013). "Beacon's Bob Dyer wins national humor award". Akron Beacon Journal. Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob. "Columnist Bob Dyer (bottom of page)". www.ohio.com. Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob (March 4, 2011). "Sparks fly in debate on Dr. Phil Show". Akron Beacon Journal. Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob (March 30, 2017). "Televangelist Ernest Angley, Cathedral Buffet ordered to pay $388,000 over unpaid labor". Columbus Dispath. Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ Dyer, Bob (Oct. 13, 2014). "Bob Dyer's reporting reveals covered-up claims of sexual abuse at Ernest Angley's church in Cuyahoga Falls". Cleveland Scene. Cleveland Scene. Retrieved 30 January 2018. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob. "Omar Vizquel bio". Wikipedia. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Dyer, Bob. "Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports". www.grayco.com. Gray & Co. Publishers. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ Dyer, Bob. "Blimp Pilot Terrorizes Akron". www.grayco.com. Gray & Co. Publishers. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
