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Fellows of the Society
for extraordinary contribution to the profession
Postmark deadline for nominations: December 1
2014 Fellows of the Society inductee
Michele Norris
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Past Honorees
1948
Erwin Canham, editor, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston
Barry Faris, editor-in-chief, International News Service, New York City
Harry J. Grant, chairman of the board, The Milwaukee Journal
1949
Palmer Hoyt, editor & publisher, The Denver Post
Frank Luther Mott, dean, School of Journalism, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
James G. Stahlman, publisher, Tennessee Nashville Banner
1950
Howard Blakeslee, science writer, The Associated Press, New York City
Walter Lippmann, editorial columnist, New York Herald-Tribune
Benjamin McKelway, editor, Washington, D.C. Star
1951
Irving Dilliard, editorial page editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Edward R. Murrow, commentator, CBS, New York City
Alberto Gainza Paz, publisher, La Prensa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1952
James S. Pope, executive editor, Louisville, Kentucky, The Courier-Journal
James B. Reston, Washington, D.C. correspondent, The New York Times
Louis B. Seltzer, editor, Cleveland Press
1953
Hodding Carter, editor & publisher, Greenville, Mississippi,
Delta Democrat-Times
William B. Henry, commentator, NBC, Washington, D.C.
Basil L. Walters, executive editor, Knight Newspapers, Chicago
1954
Kent Cooper, executive director, The Associated Press, New York City
Virginius Dabney, editor, Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch
DeWitt Wallace, founder & editor, Readers Digest, Pleasantville,
N.Y.
1955
Paul Bellamy, editor emeritus, The Plain Dealer
Harold L. Cross, author & legal counsel, Skowhegan, Maine
Walter Humphrey, editor, Fort Worth, Texas Press
1956
Luther Huston, Washington, D.C. staff, The New York Times
George Thelm, correspondent, Chicago Daily News
Ward A. Neff, president, Corn Belt Dailies, Chicago
1957
Frank Bartholomew, president, United Press Associations, New York City
J. Montgomery Curtis, director, American Press Institute, Columbia University,
New York City
Tom Powell, Jr., editor & publisher, Anamosa, Iowa Eureka and Journal
1958
J. N. Heiskell, president & editor, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Willard M. Kiplinger, editor, Washington, D.C. Letters and Changing Times
Eric Sevareid, Washington, D.C. news staff chief, CBS
1959
Houston Waring, editor, Littleton, Colorado Independent and Arapaho Herald
Byron Price, executive, The Associated Press, New York
Hal OFlaherty, foreign correspondent, Chicago Daily News
1960
Isaac Gershman, managing editor, City News Bureau, Chicago
Bernard Kilgore, president, The Wall Street Journal, New York
Frank Stanton, president, CBS, New York
1961
Lyle C. Wilson, vice president and Washington, D.C. general manager, United
Press International
James A. Stuart, editor, The Indianapolis Star
William Theodore Evjue, editor & publisher, The Capital Times, Madison,
Wis.
1962
Alan J. Gould, executive editor, The Associated Press, New York
Joseph C. John, editor, Suffolk County News, Sayville, Long Island, New
York
David Lawrence, editor, U. S. News and World Report, Washington, D.C.
1963
James Strohn Copley, chairman, The Copley Press, San Diego, Calif.
Paul Miller, president, Gannett Newspapers, Rochester, New York; president
The Associated Press
Sol Taishoff, president, publisher & editor, Broadcasting Publications,
Inc., Washington, D.C.
1964
Robert U. Brown, publisher and editor, Editor & Publisher, New York
Turner Catledge, executive editor, The New York Times
Vermont Royster, editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York
1965
David Dietz, Cleveland, Ohio Press
Mark Foster Ethridge, lecturer, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
Wes Gallagher, general manager, The Associated Press, New York
1966
James L. Kilgallen, Hearst Newspapers, New York
Ralph McGill, publisher, Atlanta Constitution
Charles A. Sprague, editor and publisher, The Oregon Statesman
1967
Julian Goodman, president, NBC, New York
Eugene C. Pulliam, president, Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. and Indianapolis
Newspapers, Inc.
J. R. Wiggins, editor, The Washington Post
1968
Earl J. Johnson, editor and vice president, United Press International
John S. Knight, editor chairman, Knight Newspapers, Miami, Fla.
Theodore H. White, reporter and author, New York
1969
Herbert L. Block (Herblock), editorial cartoonist, The Washington
Post
Arthur Krock, retired Washington, D.C. correspondent, The New York Times
Kenneth MacDonald, editor and publisher, Des Moines, Iowa The Des Moines Register
and Tribune
1970
Walter Cronkite, CBS New correspondent, New York
John H. Johnson, president, Johnson Publishing Company, Chicago
William H. (Bill) Mauldin, editorial cartoonist, Chicago Sun-Times
1971
Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post
John M. McClelland, Jr., editor and publisher, Longview, Washington The
Daily News
Howard K. Smith, commentator, ABC News, New York
1972
George Gallup, founder and chairman, American Institute of Public Opinion
Mary McGrory, columnist and staff writer, Washington Star-News
Roger Tatarian, former editor and vice-president, United Press International
1973
Benjamin C. Bradlee, executive editor, The Washington Post
John Chancellor, NBC News, New York
Harry Reasoner, ABC News, New York
1974
Louis M. Lyons, retired curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
I. F. Stone, editor, I. F. Stones Weekly
Richard L. Stout, The Christian Science Monitor
1975
David S. Broder, correspondent, The Washington Post
James Jackson Kilpatrick, columnist
Mike Wallace, correspondent, CBS News
1976
William F. Buckley, Jr., columnist
Charlotte Curtis, associate editor, The New York Times
Peter Lisagor, Washington, D.C. bureau chief, Chicago Daily News
1977
Pauline Frederick, international affairs analyst, National Public Radio
Lee Hills, chairman of the board, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc.
Lowell Thomas, newscaster, commentator and author
1978
Eugene Patterson, editor, president and CEO, St. Petersburg, Florida St.
Petersburg Times; and president, Congressional Quarterly
Jack Landau, law columnist, Newhouse Newspapers; director, Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press
Richard Salant, president CBS News, New York
1979
Walter Mears, chief, The Associated Press, Washington, D.C. bureau
Dan Rather, co-editor, CBS News 60 Minutes, New York
Art Buchwald, syndicated columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Washington,
D.C.
1980
Clayton Kirkpatrick, president, Chicago Tribune
Clark Mollenhoff, professor of journalism, Washington and Lee University
Red Smith, sports writer, The New York Times
1981
Charles Kuralt, CBS News, New York
Allen H. Neuharth, chairman and president, The Gannett Company, Rochester,
New York
Richard M. Schmidt, Jr., general counsel, American Society of Newspaper
Editors, Washington, D.C.
1982
David Brinkley, analyst, ABC News, Washington, D.C.
William Farr, reporter,
Los Angeles Times
William Shawn, editor,
The New Yorker
1983
David Halberstam, journalist and author Elmer W. Lower, dean, University
of Missouri School of Journalism and former president, ABC News
Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist
1984
John Seigenthaler, editorial director, USA Today; editor and publisher,
The Tennessean
Anthony Lewis, columnist, The New York Times
Marlene Sanders, correspondent, CBS News
1985
A. M. Rosenthal, executive editor, The New York Times
Helen Thomas, White House chief, United Press International
Keith Fuller, former president and general manager of the Associated
Press
1986
Ted Koppel, news anchor, ABC News
Eugene L. Roberts, Jr., executive editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Paul Conrad, editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Times
1987
Kay Fanning, editor, The Christian Science Monitor
David Tennant Bryan, chairman of the board of directors of Media General,
Inc.
Frank Bourgholtzer, former foreign correspondent, NBC News
1988
Louis Boccardi, president and general manager, Associated Press
Ellen Goodman, associate editor, columnist, The Boston Globe
John Quinn, executive vice president, Gannett Company, Inc.
1989
Janet Chusmir, executive editor, The Miami Herald
Bob Schieffer, Washington correspondent, CBS News
James D. Squires, executive vice president and editor, Chicago Tribune
1990
Loren Ghiglione, editor, The News, Southbridge, Massachusetts
Georgie Anne Geyer, columnist, Universal Press Syndicate
Bernard Shaw, Washington anchor, CNN
1991
Peter Arnett, correspondent, CNN
Lesley Stahl, correspondent, 60 Minutes
Dick Leonard, Nieman professor of journalism, Marquette University
1992
Michael G. Gartner, president, NBC News
Bob Greene, assistant managing editor, retired, New York Newsday
Geneva Overholser, editor, The Des Moines Register
1993
Albert Fitzpatrick, assistant vice-president, Knight-Ridder
Bob Chandler, editor The Bulletin, Bend, Oregon; laid groundwork to change
the name from the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation to the Society of Professional
Journalists
Connie Chung, CBS News
1994
Jane Pauley, NBC News
Garry Trudeau, syndicated cartoonist
Carole Simpson, ABC News
1995
Christiane Amanpour, Correspondent, CNN
Brian Lamb, C-SPAN
William Raspberry, The Washington Post
1996
Herb Caen, columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
Jay T. Harris, chairman and publisher, San Jose Mercury News
William Headline, vice-president, CNN
1997
Jack Nelson, chief Washington correspondent, Los Angeles Times
Tom Snyder, talk show host, CBS News
Linda Wertheimer, National Public Radio
1998
Howard H. (Tim) Hays, formerly of the Riverside Press-Enterprise
1999
Burl Osborne, president of the publishing division of the A.H. Belo Corp.
Mara Liasson, White House correspondent for National Public Radio
Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism
2000
Diane Rehm, National Public Radio and WAMU radio host
Leonard Pitts, syndicated columnist, Miami Herald
Nat Hentoff, syndicated columnist and widely recognized advocate for
the First Amendment
2001
Dori Maynard, The Maynard Institute
Bruce Brugmann, The San Francisco Bay Guardian
David Shaw, Los Angeles Times
2002
Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor, The Washington Post
David Handschuh, photographer, New York Daily News
Robert Kaiser, associate editor and senior correspondent, The Washington
Post
2003
Hodding Carter III, president/CEO John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
Stetson Kennedy, author, historian and retired journalist
Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2004
Tom Curley, president/CEO The Associated Press
Anne Garrels
Bob Woodward
2005
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Linda Deutsch, The Associated Press
Bill Kovach, Committee of Concerned Journalists
Philip Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
2006
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Sandy Close, Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service
Ben Bagdikian, Columbia Journalism Review
Reginald Stuart, Knight Ridder Newspapers
2007
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Ken Paulson, USA Today
Muriel Dobbin, Baltimore Sun
Carl Bernstein, The Washington Post
John Markoff, The New York Times
2008
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Albert P. Smith, Jr.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Tim Russert
2009
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Stanley E. Hubbard
Austin Kiplinger
Nelson Poynter
2010
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Sydney Schanberg
Ernie Pyle
Bob Steele
2011
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Dick Goehler
Grover Cleveland Hall
Lane DeGregory
2012
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Bob Edwards
DeWayne Wickham
2013
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Al Martinez
The Society bestows the honor of fellow upon journalists for extraordinary contribution to the profession.
Up to three Fellows may be named annually. Fellows are asked to speak at future SPJ functions. Honorees receive a jeweled key and a plaque.
Eligibility
Nominations are open to members of the journalism profession.
Nominations
Open nomination. The Nomination form should be accompanied by a letter(s) of recommendation that addresses the nominees contributions and/or service to the profession and why the nominee is deserving of this national recognition.
Submit all nomination materials unbound on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Additional supporting materials are welcomed and should be limited to 10 pages.
Winner Announcement and Presentation
Winners will be announced in July and honored at the Excellence in Journalism Convention.
Deadlines
Nominations must be postmarked on or before December 1st. Nominations received after December 1st will roll over to the next year. Nominations should be mailed, faxed or e-mailed to:
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