16. Cincy Magazine
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 421-2533
Description: Publisher Eric Harmon launched this glossy, full-color magazine in 2003. The lively monthly publishes cover profiles of newsmakers and personalities (one recent cover on restaurateur Jeff Ruby labeled him “The Godfather” of Cincinnati steakhouses), as well as true crime stories (“Hit Man” and “Spy Vs. Spy: Inside the World of Corporate Espionage”), rankings and surveys (“Highway Robbery: The Top 10 Speed Traps in the Tristate” and “Gone in 60 Seconds: 40 Neighborhoods Where Your Car Will Likely Be Stolen”), and perhaps the most popular annual issues, a “Tristate Salary Guide” and “Rating the ‘Burbs: The Safest Places, Best Schools and Lowest Taxes in the Tristate.”
17. Living Magazines
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (859) 291-1412
Address: 179 Fairfield Avenue, Bellevue
Description: This company publishes seven magazines in the suburban Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky communities of Blue Ash, Hyde Park, Indian Hill, Oakwood, Wyoming, Fort Mitchell, and Fort Thomas. The magazines run wedding and engagement announcements, birth announcements, retirements, and “anything that you think might be something people would like to know and read about.” Distribution of the monthlies is staggered throughout the month. Residents of the communities receive the publications free through the mail.
18. Njema
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 961-3331
Address: 354 Hearne Avenue
Description: Njema is an African word that essentially translates to “good news.” The magazine focuses on the news, social life, and entertainment of the African-American community in the Cincinnati region. The magazine is also available in Dayton, Columbus, Indianapolis, Lexington, and Louisville.
19. Ohio Magazine
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (216) 771-2833
Address: 1422 Euclid Avenue, Suite 730
Description: Ohio Magazine is a must-read for anybody who travels and shops around the state or is an Ohio history and nature buff. Monthly features include a handy planning calendar that lists all the festivals and museum exhibits in the state during a given month, plus profiles, first-person essays, and stories on the arts. Sports, gardening, and the environment are also regular topics.
20. St. Anthony Messenger
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 241-5615
Address: 1615 Republic Street
Description: This century-old national magazine for Catholics is headquartered in Cincinnati. Articles focus on issues and people of the modern world, including highly controversial topics such as abortion, racism, and the sexual revolution and how they mix with Christian values and beliefs.
21. All About Kids
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Address: 1077 Celestial Street
Description: All About Kids is a free monthly paper that deals with family issues, some of them controversial. Psychologist Earladeen Badger publishes the paper, which is an Award of Excellence winner from Parenting Publications of America. You can pick up a copy at newsstands and local libraries.
22. The American Israelite
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 621-3145
Address: 18 West Ninth Street
Description: A weekly paper centering around the area’s Jewish community, this is the oldest English-Jewish weekly in America, established in 1854 by Isaac M. Wise.
23. Catholic Telegraph
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 421-3131
Address: 100 East Eighth Street
Description: The Archdiocese of Cincinnati began publishing this weekly paper, which focuses on the area’s Catholic community, in 1831.
24. Cincinnati Court Index
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 241-1450
Address: 119 West Central Parkway
Description: The Cincinnati Court Index details Hamilton County’s daily legal activities, including legal notices and scheduled trials and hearings and provides a full list of the previous day’s municipal, common pleas, district, and bankruptcy court filings. The paper is directed toward the legal community and interested businesses. (You can get a single subscription to the popular Monday edition. Why is the Monday issue such a hot commodity? That’s when sheriff’s sales and auctions are listed.)
25. Cincinnati Family
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 241-9898
Address: 895 Central Avenue
Description: Subtitled “A Complete Parenting Resource for Cincinnati Families,” this free monthly magazine is crammed with helpful hints and leads. Features range from a comparison of maternity wards at Cincinnati hospitals to interviews with child experts. There’s also a calendar of local kids’ events. The magazine is published by local radio station WRRM-FM.
26. Cincinnati Woman Magazine
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 697-6433
Description: This monthly publication profiles notable Cincinnati women and offers mothering advice, health and beauty tips, fashion and style articles, and shopping guides. Editor Cathy Habes has assembled some of the city’s best-known writers; restaurant critic Lilia Brady, for instance, was the longtime food editor at Cincinnati Magazine. The publication is available free at many bookstores, restaurants, and retail outlets.
27. Express Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 771-5088
Description: Express Cincinnati is a monthly newspaper chronicling the activities of the city’s upscale social scene. Photos and articles of previous events, stories about upcoming events, columns, a calendar, and even Blue Book wedding announcements are detailed. The publication can be found at newsstands around the city and at select fund-raising events.
28. Kentucky Monthly
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (888) 329-0053
Address: 213 St. Clair Street, Frankfort
Description: This monthly magazine serves the interests of folks living on the “south side of Cincinnati” (translated: Kentucky). Features include profiles of prominent Kentuckians, recreational opportunities in the Bluegrass state, regional news and notes, and an inserted 24-page “Visions” program guide to Kentucky public television.
29. StreetVibes
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 421-7803
Address: 1506 Elm Street
Description: StreetVibes focuses on social justice and poverty-related news, plus a smattering of letters, poems, and essays contributed by low-income contributors. Published by the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, StreetVibes strikes an unusual arrangement with its vendors (most of whom are homeless): They hawk the monthly on the downtown streets for $1.00 per issue, and get to keep 80 cents for every paper sold. It’s a win-win situation: The coalition fulfills its mission of helping street people transcend from panhandling to actually running a small business, plus the agency collects revenue from sales and advertising.
30. The Whistleblower
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Media
Telephone: (513) 232-1902
Address: 1116 Birney Lane
Description: No discussion of Cincinnati print media is complete without some discussion of this faxed daily news release. Is it primarily schlock? Of course. Does it contain some germs of truth, littered among the gossip and innuendo? Most assuredly. Does it, on occasion, even break new ground? Oh, yes. Underground publisher Jim Schifrin, our own Matt Drudge, produces this rag and e-mails it daily to powerbrokers and interested parties around the region. The fact that the majority of Cincinnatians never see The Whistleblower does nothing to belittle its force. The Whistleblower has influenced public policy, sent seasoned politicians running like scared rabbits, and remains—after two decades of publication—the most influential gossip sheet in the region.