It was one of those years where each week, without fail, I knew the following week was finally going to be the one that slowed down. It never happened, but there’s always 2026! When I sat down to look back at some of the biggest stories from 2025, I realized why our weeks here at […]
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Confusion, hearsay and idle conjecture: 2025 in review
It’s really easy to get complacent—or worse, burnout—in this job. If you’ve never worked in a newsroom, you might be surprised at the number of professional pitches, press releases, government and business announcements, and even straight-up ads—or what may as well be ads—that flood our inboxes every day, hoping we’ll grant them coverage. We throw […]
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From aquarium tanks to fire training trailers: My top stories of 2025
In 2025, my reporting put me face-to-face with sharks and stingrays, crawling through a firefighter training course, sitting in a living room filled with a century of memories and digging into local schools. Every year, LINK nky reporters round up our top five stories from the year. I chose a collection of stories that I […]
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Grit and grind! Kenton Hornbeck’s lookback at 2025
Last year, I said that 2024 was a weird year for me professionally. I don’t want to be redundant, but this year was as well. Doing anything for four years in a row can lead to malaise, but as you get further along in your journey, you find new ways to inspire yourself. This year, […]
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You’re allowed to smell the flowers… in due time: Kenton Hornbeck’s lookback at 2024
In 2024, journalist Kenton Hornbeck won two Greater Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists awards and wrote five stories on topics such as independent pharmacies, sports trading cards, sports betting, and a first-of-its-kind moving walkway.
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LINK’s top stories of 2024
As LINK’s digital editor, I always have my eye on what you, our readers, are most interested in so we can make sure we’re providing you with the best and most interesting content we can. One way we can tell what people are interested in is through looking at pageviews. These tell us how many […]
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2024 in review: professional strangers
Nathan Granger’s 2024 year in review: Read stories that made him think critically about his role as a reporter in the community.
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Conversations on RMR relocating | an NKY centenarian, a few of my favorites this year
LINK nky’s Campbell County Reporter Haley Parnell rounded up her top five stories of 2024, including a long-running investigation into River Metals Recycling, an interview with a centenarian, a story of immigrants and refugees sharing their stories of resilience, a story of a welder and Miss Kentucky contestant, and a documentary exploring the rich history of the Newport Barracks site.
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Housing study findings, medical center groundbreaking among top Boone County stories
Northern Kentucky took center stage during the Kentucky gubernatorial race, a housing study revealing Boone County has more available jobs than housing, and an over-budget Boone County animal shelter construction project were among the top stories of the year for Boone County reporter Douglas Clark. Beshear & Cameron square off at Northern Kentucky University Kentucky […]
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My first year at LINK nky
This was my first year as a full-time professional reporter, and I’m happy to say that I’ve had a chance to work on a variety of meaningful stories with a great team of people. Here are five stories that were most meaningful to me. They’re stories that gave me a chance to report on something […]