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Bob Vitale

Cleveland, Columbus, Ohio
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I'm the editor of Prizm, a monthly news, politics, arts, entertainment and lifestyle magazine for the LGBTQ people and communities of Ohio. We also publish daily news and events coverage, as well as commentary from a growing stable of writers, at PrizmNews.com.

I have spent most of my journalism career (31 years and counting) in newspapers, and I spent most of my newspaper career covering government and politics in Ohio, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.

I left newspapers for LGBTQ media in 2012.…

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What's a Guy Like This Doing Accepting a Diversity Award? - PRIZM News

What's a Guy Like This Doing Accepting a Diversity Award? - PRIZM News

Prizm News / August 10, 2018 / By Bob Vitale (Publisher's Note: Prizm Editor Bob Vitale was part of a panel t…

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Bill Would Force Ohio Teachers to Violate Confidence of Trans Kids - PRIZM News

Bill Would Force Ohio Teachers to Violate Confidence of Trans Kids - PRIZM News

Prizm News / June 26, 2018 / By Bob Vitale By Bob Vitale A bill introduced by two Ohio lawmakers would make i…

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Can Richard Cordray Win Ohio Back? - PRIZM News

Can Richard Cordray Win Ohio Back? - PRIZM News

PRIZM News / June 1, 2018 / By Bob Vitale Two years after our state's turn toward Trump, the candidate for go…

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UPDATED: Meet the 13 LGBTQ Ohioans Running for Office in 2018 - PRIZM News

UPDATED: Meet the 13 LGBTQ Ohioans Running for Office in 2018 - PRIZM News

Editor's Note: This story appeared in the April 2018 issue of Prizm, but only included 11 candidates. We lear…

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Cuyahoga County Democrats Snub Ground-Breaking LGBTQ Legislator - PRIZM News

Cuyahoga County Democrats Snub Ground-Breaking LGBTQ Legislator - PRIZM News

Prizm News / February 9, 2018 / By Bob Vitale By Bob Vitale Cuyahoga County Democrats-the ones in charge of t…

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Lack of Anti-Bias Law Could Steer Amazon Away From Ohio - PRIZM News

Lack of Anti-Bias Law Could Steer Amazon Away From Ohio - PRIZM News

Prizm News / February 2, 2018 / By Bob Vitale By Bob Vitale Ohio lawmakers' refusal to follow the lead of 19 …

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The Columbus man who raised $55,492 for potato salad looks back

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By Bob Vitale
| The Columbus Dispatch
June 14, 2026, 6:04 a.m. ET Zack Brown never set out to become known as "The Potato Salad Guy," but when life hands you... well, potatoes seems a more appropriate reference here than lemons, so let's go with that. Life certainly didn't hand the Columbus information technology professional lemons on July 3, 2014, when he turned to Kickstarter with a simple and admittedly not-quite-serious request for $10 in crowdfunding and a recipe for a cookout side dish.
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Celebrating Columbus, quirks and all, on 614 Day

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By Bob Vitale
| Yahoo Life
Columbus was founded not by explorers or adventurers, but by people looking for a place to put Ohio's capital and thinking, "Over there looks nice." We were once a test market – you're welcome, world, for the McRib – because our tastes were so legendarily middle-of-the-road. We were once a swing county in a swing state because so were our politics.
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Looking back at the 2014 Kickstarter potato salad campaign

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By Bob Vitale
| The Columbus Dispatch
Bob Vitale June 12, 2026, 10:05 p.m. ET Zack Brown, the man behind the potato salad Kickstarter campaign photographed in the Dispatch studio on September 18, 2014. Chris Russell/Columbus Dispatch Zack "Danger" Brown, also known as the Potato Salad Guy, on the hunt for the perfect potato. Taken at Lucky's Super Market in Clintonville, Columbus.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I was a copy editor at The News-Dispatch in Michigan City, Indiana. A great town with a great beach on Lake Michigan.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes!

How is social media changing news?

It's making it a 24-hour-a-day job.

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