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Connie Schultz takes on Rush Limbaugh at journalists' recognition forum by the Akron League of Women Voters, Sen Brown, Plain Dealer editor attend

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League of Women Voters Akron Area Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Connie Schultz Schultz and her husband, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper Editor Debra Adams Simmons By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) AKRON, Ohio-Debra Adams Simmons, the first Black female editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, was among 22 Akron and Cleveland area journalists recognized at a Women in Journalism Luncheon sponsored by the Akron Press Club and the League of Women Voters Akron Area on Sat. that featured nationally known journalist Connie Schultz as the keynote speaker with her doting husband, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), in attendance. (Editor's note: Read the names of the other 21 recipients of recognition for journalistic excellence at the end of this article). Held at the Fairlawn Country Club in A

Connie Schultz to keynote women in journalism luncheon by Akron League of Women Voters, Sat, March 17, Journalist Coleman is a special guest

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Connie Schultz By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) AKRON, Ohio-Pulitzer prize winning journalist Connie Schultz, a journalist in her own right who won the prestigious honor as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, and the wife of Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, is the keynote speaker for The League of Women Voters of the Akron Area Women in Journalism Luncheon that will be held on Sat., March 17 at 11:00 am at the Fairlawn Country Club, 200 North Wheaton Rd, in Akron, Oh. Also recognized at the event will be women in journalism that have made a contribution to the community, including Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black journalist of 18 years and a former freelance journalist for the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper who now publishes and edits Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.cle