Reporting and storytelling in Cleveland and around Ohio
More than 20 years of bold storytelling, pursuing original investigations and delivering deadline news for print, digital and broadcast media.
Always evolving, I’m editor-at-large and a reporter with Signal Ohio, a nonprofit newsroom that grew from Cleveland.
I’m a former daily and enterprise reporter at WKYC Channel 3 and a longtime reporter and columnist at The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com.
During the pandemic my office was closed, so I worked primarily from my car, which was my mobile studio.
The hallmark of my columns at The Plain Dealer was the watchdog and enterprise reporting that shaped my opinions and calls to action.
On-scene and saturation reporting underpin my feature writing.
My experience and comfort interacting with newsmakers, from U.S. presidents to neighborhood activists, give credibility and perspective to my stories.
I worked at the NBC affiliate WKYC Channel 3 in Cleveland for three years, much of that time during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scrappy
Having started my journalism career with alternative weeklies in Cleveland and Philadelphia, I learned to take on the hard-to-get stories and challenge the popular narrative.
Productive
As a reporter and metro columnist with The Plain Dealer and its digital brand, cleveland.com, for 19 years, I covered breaking news, government, politics and campaigns, including presidential and statewide races. I also produced stories on city and suburban communities and their characters.
Visual
How people consume news is ever evolving. So I’ve invested time in developing skills as a photographer and visual storyteller. I take high-quality documentary style photos, produce short films and social media content.
What others say about me:
Scene Magazine on my move to WKYC Channel 3 after 19 years at The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com:
"The move will undoubtedly be a blow to cleveland.com's watchdog coverage, of which he produced a lion's share, and will by the same token be a boon to WKYC's. The good news is that he'll still be providing Cleveland with accountability reporting of the highest quality." -- Scene Magazine, July 2019
Named one of Cleveland Magazine’s 2019 Most Interesting People:
“Naymik has spent the last year poking Cleveland’s powerful in their well-deserving eyes. The Cleveland.com columnist pried the city’s secret Amazon bid loose through a Court of Claims complaint, and, in another blockbuster story, unearthed questionable accounting at a community development corporation in Cleveland City Councilman Ken Johnson’s ward. After yet more columns about Johnson’s practices, the FBI reportedly opened an investigation." – Cleveland Magazine, January 2019
