“The Buckeyes and the Press”

The Central Ohio Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Main Street Free Press Museum in Fredericktown invite you to …

“The Buckeyes and the Press”
7:15 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 8
First Baptist Church, Fredericktown

Columbus Dispatch Sports Editor Ray Stein will anchor a panel discussion about the role of the press in uncovering and reporting on problems in the Ohio State University football program. Other panelists will be Jill Riepenhoff, Dispatch projects reporter; Tim May, Dispatch OSU football writer; and Zack Meisel, immediate past editor-in-chief of the OSU Lantern. A question-and-answer session will follow.

Come early to tour the Main Street Free Press Museum and enjoy the food available at the booths set up for the Fredericktown Tomato Show. (Try the Presbyterian bean soup or the Baptist pie!)

Here’s the schedule for the program:

6 p.m. – Museum tours and dinner on your own at Tomato Show booths on Main Street. (The Museum is at Main and Second streets, a block north of the Public Square.)

7:15 p.m. – “The Buckeyes and the Press” panel. (The panel will be held at First Baptist Church, one block east of the Public Square at Sandusky and Pleasant streets.)

8:30 p.m.– Museum reopens for tours. Food booths will be open.

The program is free and requires no reservations. For more info and directions, visit the Museum’s Web site at www.FreePressMuseum.org or call or e-mail John C. Long at 917-693-7664 or [email protected].

About the Museum:
The Main Street Free Press Museum was established in 2000 by Rarick W. Long, a member of the Central Ohio Pro Chapter for 48 years, and by his children. The Museum is in the Lyman Wright building, which dates to 1836. It formerly housed the Knox County Citizen, a weekly newspaper that Rarick Long published for 35 years. The Museum’s goals including fostering freedom of the press at the grass-roots level and celebrating the institution of the small-town newspaper. Today, the Museum is directed by Rarick’s son, John C. Long, who’s retired from The Wall Street Journal.