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An award-winning investigative journalist, columnist, and newsroom leader, Westerhold served as the longtime executive editor of the Sandusky Register and managed newsrooms across Ohio for Ogden Newspapers—including the Norwalk Reflector, Findlay Courier, Fostoria Review-Times, and Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune—prior to launching StayTunedSandusky to deliver independent, locally focused journalism.

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