# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DEfXy71Nc8l
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25921485-clevelandmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-01-06T16:04:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

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Michael D. Roberts, former The Plain Dealer reporter and founding editor of Cleveland Magazine, left a legacy as a trailblazing editor and mentor to a generation of journalists. 

Roberts, whose leadership at Cleveland Magazine served as a nationwide model of what a city magazine could be and a reporter who witnessed firsthand some of the biggest moments of the turbulent ’60s, died this week after a long health battle, according to multiple friends and colleagues. His loss is one of a pioneering storyteller, a sharp critical voice and wealth of knowledge about the moments and movers who shaped Cleveland. He was 85 years old.

“He was a guy who could walk across the street and stumble across a story,” says Ed Walsh, who served as associate editor for Cleveland Magazine and was a confidant of Roberts’ in his later years. “He was really quite a force.”

“Mike was relentless as an editor, and working for him was not for the faint of heart, but damn did we have fun,” says Richard Osborne, who served as managing editor from 1979-1982 and later as the editor of Ohio Magazine. “He attracted Cleveland's best writers who were masters of that art. We learned from Mike more than any journalism course could ever teach you. He had a huge influence on that generation of young journalists.”

“Mike helped invent the genre of city magazines,” says Osborne. “I don't think there is any question that the best journalism in Cleveland of that era was put out by Cleveland Magazine.” 

🖊️ dilstew 
📸 kevinkopanski, Courtesy Lute Harmon Sr.

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