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A certain amount of bias exists in all media, but that bias can often be overlooked when other viewpoints are not represented. These images show how The Columbus Dispatch and a Black newspaper called the Columbus Call & Post covered the same…

Son of Edgar T., John Walton Wolfe (1928-1994) ran both the Ohio Company and the Dispatch Printing Company following his brother Edgar Jr.’s death in 1975. His reign solidified the Wolfes’ status as kingmakers in city and state politics with everyone…

The Wolfe family hosted politicians and businesspeople at its private Reynoldsburg retreat, the Wigwam, built in 1928. Warren Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Bob Hope, and many others spent time at the Wigwam to consort with and entertain the Wolfes and…

North High School graduate Carl DeBloom started his 46-year career at the Dispatch in 1935. He started the paper’s Washington bureau in 1960 and later served as Vice President Spiro Agnew’s press secretary. His coverage of the ’60 and ’64…

From the sidelines, a Dispatch photographer captures OSU defensive tackle Pete Cusick bulldozing Michigan Chuck Heafer as these rivals fight for the win.

Photographer Jeff Hinckley looks down from the Buckeye State & Loan Company building on East Gay St. as debris from the cornice of the Nitschke building fell onto the sidewalk below. Four people were injured, including City Councilman Ben Espy.

The Ohio State University marching band takes the field at Ohio Stadium on November 9, 1946 when the Buckeyes face off against the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. OSU won 20-13.

Graydon Hambrick was a feature writer at the Dispatch from 1967-1994, covering politics, Columbus City Schools, and Ohio State University. As Action Line section editor, Hambrick raised the profile of consumer issues submitted by readers and in 1979,…

Jill Riepenhoff joined the Dispatch in 1985, and became one of its most decorated investigative reporters in her 32-year career at the paper. Hers and Jennifer Smith Richard’s 2007 series “The ABCs of Betrayal” on flaws in the state’s discipline…

This straw vote box was used for many years the Dispatch’s early election season polling, which almost always predicted the winner of the election.