Conor Morris
Reporter/ProducerExpertise: Education reporting, public records, general assignment, investigative reporting
Education: Wooster High School
Ohio University - Bachelor of Science, journalism
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Upper Edgewater Park
Experience:
Conor Morris covers education in Northeast Ohio. A 2014 Ohio University alum, he previously worked at The Athens NEWS in Southeast Ohio, covering criminal justice, education and more. He moved to Cleveland in 2020 to work with the Northeast Ohio Solutions Journalism Collaborative as a reporter and Report for America corps member, where he covered poverty and the pandemic's impact on Northeast Ohio. Conor volunteers his time to run the Unsilenced Voices of CMSD, a blog for Cleveland Metropolitan School District students. He was born in Marietta, Ohio.
Highlights:
- Won numerous statewide press awards for his investigative and feature reporting on higher education, criminal justice and poverty with The Athens NEWS in Southeast Ohio.
- 2023 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Award, First Place Best Digital Project & Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Award, Best Medical/Science/Health Care Reporting - “Redlining is affecting Northeast Ohio's children's ability to breathe. Here's what we can do”
- Past stories featured on the Solutions Journalism Network's Solutions Story Tracker, which highlights stories that dig into both a problem and its solution.
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The Youngstown City School District financial forecast shows it running out of cash completely by the 2026-27 school year. -
The Ohio Auditor says the college has not adequately adjusted its operations - including staffing, facilities and course offerings - to account for losing almost half its enrollment in the last decade. -
Akron's board of ed and school administration mulled how best to communicate with voters about the need for the levy, its first request for new tax money since 2012. -
Rittenhouse has been lionized by some conservatives and Second Amendment advocates for his actions. The Kent State chapter of Turning Point USA — a youth-focused nonprofit that boosts conservative candidates and causes - invited Rittenhouse to speak. -
The private, for-profit college in Lakewood, focused on fashion, interior and graphic design, cited "shifts in educational landscapes and evolving community needs" in explaining the closure. -
Teachers hope the project at the rural Medina school district will help foster a love of reading among students and build back social skills that might have been hampered during the pandemic. -
Youngstown State President Bill Johnson discussed higher education's enrollment woes while also responding to criticism about his political background. -
The institution has seen enrollment declines and is using $9 million from its reserves to pay for the retirement incentive program, meant to help the college cut costs in the long run. -
Father Frank Canfield, a former campus minister at Saint Ignatius High School from 2006 to 2014, had allegedly sexually abused another student at a different Jesuit high school in Ohio in 2000. -
Students in the high-performing men's and women's teams were left to figure out where to go after Notre Dame College announced it would be closing.
