Larry Phillips

Larry Phillips is an author, editor, and writer with more than one hundred writing and editing awards at the international, national, and state levels. He has been selected Ohio's Sportswriter of the Year and Sports Columnist of the Year by both the Associated Press and the Ohio Prep Sports Writers Association. Today he is the editor of three online news agencies, Richland Source, Ashland Source, and Knox Pages. Each is a hyperlocal online news agency in North Central Ohio. Larry is a thirty-five-year veteran of the news writing industry who graduated from Ohio University with a journalism degree in 1989. He has worked as a news reporter, sports reporter, city editor, news editor, lifestyles editor, sports editor, and managing editor in the Thomson and Gannett newspaper chains. He has authored two books, Ohio's Autumn Legends, Volume I and Volume II, on a personal passion topic, Ohio high school football. Larry and his wife, Laura, live in Mansfield, Ohio, with their two children, Bryan and Sydney.