Molly Kavanaugh is a Cincinnati native and graduate of Ohio University’s College of Communication. She was a reporter at the Cincinnati Post for ten years and worked on many assignments with Melvin Grier. In 1990, she and reporter Randy Ludlow won the Queen City Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists Gerald White Memorial Award for a series of articles exposing favoritism in the Hamilton County Auditor’s office. She ended her newspaper career in Cleveland at The Plain Dealer.