Assistant Professor of Instruction, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University
Member, Editorial Board, The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com
Thomas Suddes, a Youngstown native, teaches at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He joined The Plain Dealer in 1982 and in 1983 was assigned to its Columbus bureau, where he covered the Ohio General Assembly, the state budget and Ohio politics. Suddes is a cleveland.com editorial writer and editorial board member. Since the 1980s, he’s written a weekly column on Ohio politics and government that appears on Sunday in cleveland.com/, The Plain Dealer, The Columbus Dispatch, and the Dayton Daily News.
Suddes has a bachelor of arts in journalism from The Ohio State University and Ph.D., MS in mass communication (journalism) from Ohio University.