Why Cleveland?

• The Plain Dealer – Cleveland’s major daily newspaper
• Ideastream, Cleveland’s NPR station
• Global Cleveland - an organization focusing on connecting international newcomers to economic and social opportunities in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.
• Cleveland Magazine -  monthly print (and web) publication by and about Cleveland
• Cleveland Scene – alternative newsweekly
• This is Cleveland – website of Destination Cleveland, focusing on travel, tourism and hospitality in Cleveland

• Belt Magazine: focuses on stories by and about Midwesterners/Rust Belt residents.  Search for “Cleveland.” some highlights:
  • A Tourist’s Guide to the Cleveland You Can’t See 
  • Cleveland After Serial 
• 36 Hours in Cleveland, New York Times article by Elaine Glusac 
• Divided by Design: Tracking Neighborhood Racial Segregation in Cleveland
• SerialLand – “an effort to provide additional context for Serial’s reporting on the criminal justice system in Cleveland, Ohio, with a particular emphasis on issues of economic justice and modern-day activism.”
• Progress Index – a neighborhood data tool developed by Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University. The goal of the tool is to equip community development practitioners with housing and economic mobility data so that they may better understand neighborhood dynamics, monitor trends, develop solutions, and use data to measure organizational and/or programmatic outcomes.

The Cleveland Anthology, Second Edition, edited by Richey Piiparinen and Anne Trubek

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

Serial, Season 3 focuses on criminal justice, having spent a year “inside a typical American courthouse,” in this case, the Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio

• In Cleveland (2016): A travelogue documentary about Trump, Tamir and the death and life of great American cities, set in Cleveland, Ohio during the week of the 2016 Republican National Convention. 
• Believeland (2016): There's a special place on the southern shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River where a special group of fans live and no matter what the Tribe, Cavs and Browns do to them, they always still believe. This ESPN 30 for 30 documentary gives an overview of Cleveland’s long and often heart-breaking relationship with professional sports.