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Area native receives journalism award
By Elise Franco
efranco@vindy.com
Marilynn Marchione entered Kent State University in 1972 with an undeclared major.
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Nearly 40 years and four professional news outlets later, Marchione, 56, is a successful reporter honored with one of the most prestigious awards in medical-science journalism.
Marchione, an Associated Press reporter and a 1972 graduate of Ursuline High School, recently was awarded the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting.
“The award means a great deal to me because it comes from my peers,” she said.
“Victor Cohn did so much to stamp out junk-science reporting, and he brought a rigor to science writing that the field sorely needed.”
Marchione lives in Milwaukee, where she is one the AP’s senior medical writers.
Before starting at the AP in 2004, she had a string of coveted reporting jobs at well-known newspapers across the country, including 10 years at the Akron Beacon Journal, a year at the Chi