About Lori King

Journalist | Podcaster | Educator

I am a retired military print journalist and a retired Toledo Blade photojournalist. Although I hung up my cameras for good (or so I thought). My most recent accomplishment was launching the Toledo Free Press in 2024, a startup, nonprofit online newsroom. Before I took that job, I was an educator and podcaster. But the money needed to continue my salary wasn’t there a year later, so I was ‘let go’ by the board in July 2025. But you know what they say - when one door closes …

I am now a political podcaster. I founded the podcast Definitely … a King to fight for press rights freedom, our democracy and the sanity of this great nation. This podcast is the fourth podcast I’ve hosted, and the third I’ve founded.

My journalism career began in the U.S. Army as a print journalist when I was 18, serving eight years active army, and 10 years in the Ohio Army National Guard and three years in the Air National Guard. I retired from the 180th Fighter Wing in Toledo in 2000. I retired from military in July 2000 and from the Toledo Blade in August 2021.

Recent Former Employment:

Editor-in-Chief of the Toledo Free Press: June 3 2024 - July 2025
Adjunct photojournalism and multimedia instructor at the University of Toledo. I teach the Integrated Media course, which I hope to turn into a teaching classroom for the TFP - 2020 - 2024
Host/producer of the National Press Photographer Association’s (NPPA) The Visual Voice podcast: 2023-2025

Education:

BS in photojournalism | Kent State | 1991
MA in Journalism Education at Kent State | 2012
Journalism Track | Defense Information School | U.S. Army | 1980

Contact information: lorikingblog@gmail.com | loriking@toledofreepress.com | Twitter @intro2pj | Instagram @toledophotog

To see my full resume, go to the Curriculum Vita page.