The Northwest Ohio Black Media Association has named the winners of its 15th Impact Newsmaker Awards.
The individual winners are: Patricia Hogue, chairman of the department of physician s assistants at the University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus; John Preston, a retired Toledo police lieutenant; Mario Harris Rosser, a senior at St. John s Jesuit High School; and David Bush, founder of the Madd Poets Society.
The Media Achievement Award winner is Kristian Brown of WTVG-TV Channel 13. The group winners are Toledoans for Obama and the Lincoln/Stewart single gender academies of the Toledo Public Schools.