Tom Mitsoff

Professional storyteller driven by the "creative urge"

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Tom Mitsoff is a seasoned journalist, editor, and author whose career spans traditional newspapers and the digital media frontier. His passion for storytelling began early in Beavercreek, Ohio, where his parents ran a community newspaper. Tom spent 14 years as editor of his hometown papers before being appointed executive editor of a Dayton-area newspaper group in 1998. In the mid-2000s, he was editor-in-chief of The Sunday Challenger, a Northern Kentucky weekly, leading its newsroom to earn 47 state journalism awards, including multiple first-place General Excellence honors. Throughout these roles, Tom’s “creative urge” to inform and engage the public has been the driving force of his career.

In addition to his work in print journalism, Tom has been at the forefront of media innovation and content management. He embraced the shift to digital publishing as early as 2006, when he became web editor for the Tyler Morning Telegraph in Texas, ensuring the paper’s timely transition of content from print to online. In 2011, Tom founded Expert Online Business Solutions, a consulting venture focused on internet marketing and publication services. Through this company, he helped businesses expand their online reach – a testament to his adaptability in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Whether managing newsrooms or developing web content strategies, Tom has built a reputation for leadership, innovation, and a commitment to quality storytelling.

Today, Tom also channels his expertise into book authorship, writing across diverse genres with equal enthusiasm. He has penned practical guides like The Web Ranking Manual (a how-to on SEO and online visibility), Bitcoin Decoded (an accessible introduction to cryptocurrency, co-authored by Brett Combs), and Fixing Post-Truth Politics (a thought-provoking analysis of modern U.S. politics). More recently, Tom ventured into fiction: his debut novel The Naples Justice Alliance (2024) is a cozy mystery set in paradise, and he followed it with Artificial Awakening (2025), an AI-driven tech thriller. Across all his projects, Tom maintains a personable, engaging voice that reflects both his professional polish and his genuine love for storytelling – inviting readers to learn, think, and be entertained along the way.

Some AI fun: Skipper and I had fun in a recent visit to Naples, Florida, where we spent some catch-up time with Skipper's three co-protagonists in my first fiction novel, "The Naples Justice Alliance." Pictured, l-r, are supermodel Monique Tate, retired baseball pitcher Barry Pope, Skipper and me, and environmental scientist Anna Santos. (Disclaimer: This is a fun AI-created image. I fed the AI actual images of Skipper and me, along with AI-generated images of the other characters that were used throughout the book. AI is not slowing down, friends. For those interested, I used the new Nano-Banana image generator from Google.)