About the Author
Richard Osborne
Veteran business journalist Richard Osborne has been honored with dozens of regional, state and national journalism awards, including numerous awards for column writing and enterprise reporting. Among his awards, he received the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism. The U.S. Small Business Administration named him Small Business Advocate of the Year in the Ohio media.
In addition to InsideSources, Osborne has written for such publications as BusinessWeek, IndustryWeek, Scientific American and Hemispheres, among many others. He served as editorial director of Leadership for Manufacturers, the official magazine of the National Association of Manufacturers.
A former newspaper and magazine editor and publisher in Ohio and Massachusetts, Osborne was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame in 2007. He twice served as president of The Press Club of Cleveland.