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17100C PressClub_ad.indd 1 10/20/17 4:04 PM Welcome Journalism matters. That has been our mantra and our marching orders at The Press Club of Cleveland throughout 2017. Tonight, we gather to honor some people who have made journalism matter throughout their careers. Our 2017 inductees into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame are Joe Frolik, Janet Macoska, Russ Mitchell, David Molyneaux, Joe Mosbrook and Carol Story. Congratulations also to Tom Moore, the 10th recipient of the Chuck Heaton Award, given each year to a journalist who best exemplifies the sensitivity, humility and talent of the late Plain Dealer sportswriter. In other words, a person who makes journalism matter. Please take advantage of the well-done biographies in this program to learn a lot more about our award winners. Plaques recognizing all of tonight’s inductees will soon go on display in the Hall of Fame Gallery at Nighttown in Cleveland THE POWER OF JOURNALISM Heights. Thank you particularly to Press Club board member Carol Kovach, who headed up this year’s Hall of Fame nomination process, We’re pleased to support the Press Club of Cleveland and and to all board members for their contributions as well as Press Club members for their nominations. Please join me in recognizing our sponsors for this event: corporate sponsor FirstEnergy, which provides year-round support to its rich history of breaking and making headlines since 1887. The Press Club; presenting sponsor Medical Mutual of Ohio; reception sponsor Burns McDonnell; supporting sponsors Dominion Energy, SAG-AFTRA and friend of sponsorship PR Newswire. Congratulations to all of tonight’s Hall of Fame inductees. Without their support, a special night wouldn’t happen. Thanks again as well this year to FAMILY 13 Productions and its leader Robbie Puzzitiello. Robbie is producing our videos for the Hall of Fame inductees for the second year. I know you’ll enjoy the videos tonight. And to see his work from last year, go to our Press Club website. We highly recommend Robbie for your video needs and you can find his contact info in this program. Finally, on behalf of our Board of Directors, thank you for your ongoing support of The Press Club of Cleveland. Tonight, we honor people who have told the stories that help make up the history of journalism in Cleveland. Tomorrow and going forward we need your active contributions to keep The Press Club vital. Help us make sure that journalism continues to matter.

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Joe Frolik 6 6 p.m. Ideastream Cocktail Reception Presentation of the Janet Macoska 8 Chuck Heaton Award/ Photojournalist 7 p.m. John Betchkal Welcome Tom Moore Russ Mitchell 10 Carol Kovach, Chair, Hall of WKYC TV3 Fame Committee Induction of Press Club David Molyneaux 12 of Cleveland Journalism The Plain Dealer Dinner Hall of Fame Class of 2017 Joe Mosbrook 14 Joe Frolik WKYC TV3 7:35 p.m. Janet Macoska Remarks Russ Mitchell Carol Story 16 Thom Fladung, President David Molyneaux Retired television producer The Press Club of Cleveland Joe Mosbrook About the Hall of Fame 18 Carol Story Tom Moore, Heaton Award 20 Program WTAM 1100

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HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 5 ©2017 Medical Mutual of Ohio Joe Frolik BY JIM STRANG Joe Frolik’s news career officially began in 1968, when, at age 14, he began writing about high school sports for the True Republican, his Sycamore, Illinois hometown newspaper. But it actually began a few weeks before, when Frolik, incensed by the shooting deaths of the Rev. Martin Luther King and presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy, tried (and failed) to get the editor to run a series of pro-bono ads promoting gun control. The ads didn’t run in that conservative paper, but drew a page one feature story about a young man with a passion. And that passion turned a three-month backpacking Two years later, Frolik and reporting endeavors. out to be journalism, which trip through Europe to made his “most excellent In 2001, Frolik graduated he has practiced with award- contemplate his future. decision” -- he married PD to the editorial page, where winning distinction for most And that future was reporter Karen R. Long. To years of unbiased reporting of his adult life. newspapering. When he that union were born Jackson were converted overnight to Accuracy. Clarity. came back, he hired on to (1987), Will (1989) and Ellen forming and expressing Precision. The ability to the Austin (Texas) American- (1992) Froliklong. well-considered opinion. write an interesting story Statesman, soon becoming In-depth reporting became There he would stay for the and deliver it, by deadline, the paper’s pop music writer, Frolik’s forte. His coverage rest of his time at The PD — camera-ready and at the interviewing such acts as of Pope John Paul II’s 1987 with the exception of Sept. assigned length. Those were Sting, Bruce Springsteen, the two-week American visit led 11, 2001, when his prodigious the hallmarks of Frolik’s years Talking Heads, Willie Nelson to his assignment as national writing skills were loaned to in newspapering. Unlike that and Bob Weir, and even going correspondent, which he the newsroom for a day to first entry into his hometown guitar-shopping with Tom filled through the 2000 write the lead story on the paper’s newsroom, his Petty. election. terrorist attacks. dispassionate coverage of Two years later, Frolik His 1988 series on In 2009, he was named the most controversial issues moved to the Escondido the political implications chief editorial writer, leading never betrayed his own (California) Times-Advocate, of America’s changing the campaign to persuade viewpoints on the topics at where his reporting turned demographics brought him voters to change the form hand, which further endeared to politics during the 1980 the National Headliner award of Cuyahoga County’s him to editors and readers election cycle. for National Reporting. He government. alike. Then, in 1981, he made covered the “World Series” But those were years of After graduating from high his ultimate newspaper earthquake of 1989, the change for the PD, and, in school in 1972, where he move, bringing his laid-back “Klansman vs. the Crook” 2013, Frolik left to become had served two years as the California tan to rust-belt Louisiana gubernatorial director of communications newspaper editor, he enrolled Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer race in 1991, and in 1993 and public policy for the in the Medill School of as a feature writer. wrote a series on the broken county prosecutor’s office. Journalism at Northwestern He wasn’t long for connection between marriage In 2017, he returned to University — in part because features. He soon linked with and childbearing. journalism, but this time it had no foreign language future Pulitzer winner Walt In 1996, at the whim in broadcast, becoming requirement, and he had Bogdanich and reporter Chris of his editor, Frolik and a the managing producer had quite enough of French. Jensen to produce a series photographer set off on a pre- for community affairs at There, he polished his innate on abuses by international election train trip from New Ideastream, where he journalism skills -- and began charities that captured the York to California, seeking continues today. a love affair with the Grateful National Headliner Award the voters’ pulse. Along the Dead, more than two dozen in 1983 for Best Overseas way, he stopped in Chicago Jim Strang, a 33-year veteran of of whose concerts he would Reporting. to interview a fellow he The Plain Dealer, worked with Frolik attend through the years. Frolik also was becoming thought might be interesting for 20 of those years as a colleague Thinking a law degree an active trade unionist, — a novice politician named and editor. It was Strang who sent him might be a handy tool, upon serving on the 1982 strike Barack Obama. on the cross-country train ride, and graduation in 1976, Frolik committee of the Newspaper That same year, he who was the first after Joe to dance enrolled in the University Guild’s Local 1. For the next coordinated the first joint with Karen at their wedding. of California Berkeley law 15 years, he would serve as venture of election coverage, school. But after a year, he an officer in either the PD joining The PD, WCPN, WVIZ, reconsidered, instead taking unit or the local itself. WKSU and WEWS in polling

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HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 7 Janet Macoska BY PETER CHAKERIAN

If rock‘n’roll has been the soundtrack of your life, photojournalist Janet Macoska has probably provided you the visuals. Janet grew up with a transistor radio glued to the side of her head, listening to rock’n’roll on Cleveland Top 40 radio.

As one might expect for a in Teen Screen Magazine the Kinks are just some of the Janet was the principal child of the era, The Beatles following year, when Janet artists who have used Janet’s photographer for the were very much responsible was 13 years old. photos on their CD releases. Cleveland Indians (MLB) for this love and obsession On her first trip to England In a career of many baseball club from 1975-1985, with rock music. in 1977, friend-mentor Alex highlights, Janet was selected during their late tenure at At the ripe old age of 10, Harvey (of the Sensational by Paul McCartney himself as Cleveland Municipal Stadium. she had already begun to Alex Harvey Band) introduced one of eight photographers Currently, Janet shoots photograph the family dog her to the top British rock to shoot one of his concerts for The Hard Rock Rocksino and neighbors using her photographers, helping her to for his “Flowers in the Dirt” Northfield Park, The Rock parents’ Kodak twin-lens find an agent for her work. 1989-1990 “comeback” tour. & Roll Hall of Fame and reflex camera. It wasn’t long By 23, Janet had become One of her photographs from Museum, Tri-C JazzFest before she realized that the one in a small group of that experience ended up on Cleveland, Playhouse Square camera would be a free photographers on the planet display at The National Portrait Center and for corporate pass to her getting closer who was making a living by Gallery in London — right and music clients. She often to the music she loved and capturing the essence of next to a portrait of fellow speaks at museums and musicians she idolized. rock’n’roll on film. Beatle John Lennon, shot universities about her career “I came at (music Since 1974, Janet has by renowned photog Annie as a photographer in the photography) first and been capturing rock’n‘roll Liebowitz. music industry. foremost from a fan royalty on film — and now Not too bad for one of the In 2015, Janet’s first perspective,” she says. ”I in pixels (digital). Among the world’s biggest Beatles fans. compendium of her rock’n’roll had no talent for (musical) publications that have used The Rock & Roll Hall photography was published instruments, but when I found her photos are Rolling Stone, of Fame and Museum — “All Access Cleveland: The the camera, that became my People, Vogue, American presented an exhibition of Rock and Roll Photography instrument.” Photo, Creem, 16, Teen Beat, her photography in 2003 of Janet Macoska” — which By age 12, Janet was MOJO, The New York Times entitled, “It’s ALWAYS Rock she co-authored with award- hanging out at WKYC Radio and the London Times. and Roll,” an exhibition that winning writer and journalist in the DJ’s lounge, answering Janet’s vast photo has since toured North Peter Chakerian (Cleveland the fan mail for disc jockeys archive has also been tapped America with stops in Landmarks Press). “Jerry G.” Ghan and “Big repeatedly for use in their Texas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, The duo is in the early Jack” Armstrong. They “rockumentaries” and other Virginia, Alabama and Ontario, stages of work on a second rewarded her with boxes television projects on VH1, Canada. The World Intellectual volume of the book, due in of 45s, which she promptly Bravo, A&E and on the BBC. Property Conference in late 2018. and dutifully played on the Her work is now a part of Geneva, Switzerland is among turntable at home. the permanent collection of the international venues that Peter Chakerian, an award-winning When rock stars came by The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, have hosted this dynamic writer and journalist, co-authored with to appear on the jocks’ TV or The Smithsonian Museum exhibition. Janet Macoska the 2015 compendium radio shows, there was Janet of American History, The The Rock & Roll Hall of her rock’n’roll photography, “All front and center with her National Portrait Gallery in of Fame and Museum Access Cleveland: The Rock and Roll camera. Her first published London and in Hard Rock joined forces with Janet to Photography of Janet Macoska” rock’n’roll photograph was a Cafe restaurants, hotels and create a unique exhibition (Landmarks Press). The duo is in the shot of Sony and Cher taken casinos around the globe. of her photographs in 2013 early stages of work on a second in 1966 as they answered David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, for Cleveland Hopkins volume of the book, due in late 2018. calls in the studios of WKYC The Clash, DEVO, Heart, Hall International Airport as well. Radio, which was published and Oates, AC/DC and The Outside of rock’n’roll,

8 The Press Club of Cleveland | 2017 | HALL OF FAME to our favorite Rock ‘n’ Roll Photojournalist and fellow Hard Rocker, JANET MACOSKA

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Russ’s assignments Cleveland, Russ has and to the surprise of graduating from “Mizzou,” have taken him all over become an active member those who know him well, his reporting career took the world, and he has of the community and a James Beard Foundation him to KMBC in Kansas covered some of the is one of Northeast award (as host of the City, WFAA in Dallas, back biggest stories of the past Ohio’s most sought-after CBS News Early Show to KTVI in St. Louis, then three decades, including interviewers and panel “Chef on a Shoestring” across town to KMOV. the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, moderators. He serves on segment). He is also a He moved to New the Bosnian War, the the board of directors of member of the St. Louis York to join CBS News OJ Simpson trial and three organizations: The Radio and Television Hall as anchor of “Up to the capture and death Press Club of Cleveland, of Fame and the recipient The Minute” in 1992 of Osama bin Laden, to The Diversity Center of a Missouri Honor Medal and later served as a name a few. A political of Northeast Ohio and for Distinguished Service correspondent on the junkie, Russ has covered College Now Greater in Journalism from The “Eye to Eye with Connie presidential campaigns Cleveland. He is also University of Missouri Chung” newsmagazine, a and 12 national political an active member of School of Journalism, his Washington, D.C.-based conventions. the Greater Cleveland alma mater. correspondent and anchor In Cleveland, Russ led Association of Black Russ was born in St. of the “CBS Early Show,” WKYC’s award-winning live Journalists. Louis, Missouri and got “The CBS Sunday Night coverage of the Chardon Russ is the recipient of his first job at a television News” and the weekend High School attack, the several honors, including station as the night editions of “The CBS Michael Brelo decision, 10 Emmys, 13 National switchboard operator at Evening News.” The Miracle in Cleveland Association of Black KTVI in his hometown and the Tamir Rice case. Journalism awards, two when he was a 17-year-old Since arriving in National Headliner awards high school student. After

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10 The Press Club of Cleveland | 2017 | HALL OF FAME HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 11 David Molyneaux BY TED DIADIUN Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1967, David Glenn Molyneaux walked off the picturesque campus of Miami University and into a far different aesthetic: the smoke-filled cacophony of The Plain Dealer newsroom. He was assigned to the newspaper’s busy police beat on Payne Avenue, housed in a tiny, noisy room so shabby that David’s father wondered aloud why his son had even bothered to go to college. Molyneaux had Cleveland City Hall, with and print clients, including attended Mercersburg majored in economics all its tough neighborhood a monthly gig writing Academy, in Mercersburg, but was an editor of the and racial politics stories. about cruise trends for Pennsylvania, on a campus newspaper, He also wrote occasional the Miami Herald. He working scholarship. The Miami Student — a economics analyses about blogs regularly about his In the early part of combination that would impacts on daily life from travels around the world the 20th century, David’s serve him well. In business and government (TravelMavenBlog.com) and grandmother, Helen, Cleveland, after two years actions and inactions. edits a website dedicated attended Oberlin High in the Army (1968-70), he As city editor, he to travel journalism School and Oberlin quickly began climbing oversaw the investigative (TheTravelMavens.com). College with her the career ladder. He series that led to David’s first byline in The childhood sweetheart, graduated from the police Cleveland’s financial Plain Dealer was in 1967. Roelif Loveland. A Marine beat to more high profile default in 1978 during Fifty years later, in 2017, in one war, combat reporting assignments, the tumultuous years of the bylines continued reporter in another, poet, and then rose from day Mayor Dennis Kucinich, a as a freelance writer, sportswriter, and editor at city editor to city editor, former colleague at The including an article on his The Plain Dealer, Loveland to associate editor and Plain Dealer. He served experiences during the was inducted into the first chief editorial writer, to as editorial page reopening of American class of the Cleveland editor of the editorial editor during the election travel to Cuba. Press Club Hall of Fame pages, and, for the last and early part of President David lives in Shaker in 1981. 24 of his 40 years at the Ronald Reagan’s first Square in Cleveland with Loveland retired newspaper, to editor term. As travel editor he his wife, Fran Golden, from The Plain Dealer in and chief travel writer of covered the invasion of who is a prominent 1965, two years before the city’s first and only Grenada (1983), the fall national and international Molyneaux’s arrival. His stand-alone Sunday travel of the Berlin Wall and travel writer. His two grandmother told him that section. Iron Curtain (1989), and children, Miles and he had a long way to go As a reporter, David the opening of travel to Rebecca, and five to measure up to her old covered the criminal South Africa. His stories grandchildren, live in boyfriend. courts, including the trials on South Africa won him the Cleveland area. He that followed the May 4, a Lowell Thomas Award is a native of Oberlin, Ted Diadiun, a 2012 inductee in 1970 shootings at Kent for international reporting where his father and The Press Club of Cleveland State University; the in 1995. his grandmother were Journalism Hall of Fame, has been building of the Justice David ultimately born and where his a journalist in Northeast Ohio for Center, which won him became (and remains) great-grandfather, Miles 49 years. He retired from The Plain an investigative award president of the Society J. Watson, started a Dealer in 2010 after 20 years at the for stories influencing of American Travel Writers hardware store in 1887. paper, but still writes a weekly column a change in the original Foundation, which Watson Hardware for cleveland.com that appears in The design (including such oversees the annual remained in the family Plain Dealer Forum section, and he is indulgences as expensive Lowell Thomas journalism until the 1990s and still a member of the editorial board for bathroom layouts so competition. Since retiring is going strong under the newspaper and website. judges would not have from The Plain Dealer, he different ownership to listen to each other has continued his travel but the same name. flush their toilets); and news reports for online In high school, David

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HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 13 Joe Mosbrook

Joe Mosbrook has always believed the story is more important than the storyteller. He tried to get the facts and report them honestly and fairly.

With this simple broadcasts and anchored programs about news Federation of Television philosophy, Joe has NBC radio network and activities at the Army and Radio Artists) and been reporting for 64 newscasts from Cleveland base. was the local president of years, including 35 years and New York. In 1968, Before coming to the broadcasters’ union (1967-2002) at WKYC- he was anchoring the Cleveland, he was the for 10 years. He has also TV3, where he covered network radio coverage news director at WDEL, been on the boards at many of the major news from the NBC radio station Fairmount Presbyterian events in Northeast Los Angeles when Sen. in Wilmington. While at Church, the Northeast Ohio. He reported from Robert Kennedy died after WDEL, he covered the Ohio Jazz Society and the Cleveland City Hall during being shot by an assassin inauguration of President Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. the administrations of the previous night. John Kennedy in 1961, In 1988, he began doing Mayors Carl Stokes, Ralph In 1981, while covering was on the air live weekly “Cleveland Jazz Perk, Dennis Kucinich and a pollution story in when the president was History” radio features for George Voinovich. He also Ashtabula County, Joe assassinated in 1963, Cleveland’s NPR station covered numerous political escaped serious injury and reported from his WCPN. They continue campaigns and national when the Channel 3 first national political today. Drawing on his nominating conventions. helicopter, Newshawk 3, convention in 1964. He research for the radio He interviewed every crashed while trying to also did a regular daily series, he wrote the U.S. president from John take off in a snowstorm. news discussion program. only book on Cleveland’s Kennedy to Bill Clinton. Born and raised in Joe has received contributions to jazz He also reported on Wilmington, Delaware, several television Emmy history. In retirement he many important court Mosbrook majored in Awards, the Distinguished has also written two other cases, including the Danny English at Lafayette Service Award from the history books, “Looking Greene mob bombings, College in Easton, Society of Professional Back at Eagles Mere” and the Kirtland cult murders Pennsylvania. While still Journalists, awards “Breaking 100.” and the Kent State a student at Lafayette, he from The Press Club Longtime residents of shooting civil trial. During began his professional of Cleveland and was Cleveland Heights, Joe that trial, Joe’s report that broadcasting career at the inducted into the National and his wife Elaine, who a juror had been beaten up NBC station in Easton, Academy of Television Arts died of ALS last year, and threatened led to an where he did a wide and Sciences’ Silver Circle raised four children. Nancy appeal ordering a second range of radio broadcasts for more than 25 years is the principal of a special trial. Before a second trial including local news and of outstanding service education school. Joe began, the families of the sports play-by-play. to Cleveland television. is the managing partner shooting victims agreed to After college, he went He was also inducted of a public relations and financial settlements. in the Army and served as into the Radio/Television communications firm. When NBC owned the radio-TV chief of the Broadcasters Hall of Fame Charlie is a folk singer/ Channel 3 and WKYC Office of Information at of Ohio. songwriter and recording Radio, Mosbrook also Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Mosbrook served for artist. And Susan does reported for the television where he led a team many years on the board marketing for a major network’s “Today” that produced a series of of the Cleveland Local corporation. There are also and “Nightly News” regular radio and television of AFTRA (the American three grandchildren.

14 The Press Club of Cleveland | 2017 | HALL OF FAME CONGRATULATIONS TO Joe Mosbrook for 50 years in Cleveland, successfully balancing family and career.

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HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 15 Carol Story BY JANE TEMPLE Few people behind the camera have had as big an impact on Northeast Ohio viewers as Carol Story. As a “Morning Exchange” associate producer, Carol was one member of a three-person staff pioneering the way through early talk TV. From the very first “Morning Exchange” program on WEWS in 1972, and through its formative years, former nursing student-turned-TV-producer Carol Story was critical to its success. Those of us in the then returned for a second takes tremendous people From Wikipedia: media know, with all stint 1978-84 as senior skills combined with The Morning Exchange due respect to the producer. In addition to technical knowledge. In was an American morning talent, it is the producers content, talent and staff each of these situations television program that who select and shape management, she was her experience from early aired on WEWS-TV5 in what viewers see and an admired mentor and “MX” days helped her Cleveland from 1972 to hear. As an associate supervisor/trainer to many find the right people at the 1999. The program is producer she was both other associate producers right time and convince widely regarded as one prognosticator of popular who matriculated through them to appear on camera of the most successful topics and purveyor of TV5. in difficult, often gut- local programs in the that information. And the In between the WEWS wrenching, interviews history of U.S. television. timing was right. Most gigs, she used her allowing national viewers On a typical day in the of Northeast Ohio was intuitive people skills and to better understand the 1970s, over two-thirds of watching the “MX” then. production management import of the story. Her all television sets in the In those glory days of abilities in a successful boundless energy and Cleveland market were early broadcast TV, it was career at Harlan Public natural curiosity and, tuned to The Morning prime-time for local talk Relations, Cleveland and she would say Midwest Exchange. In 1975, ABC shows across the country. a year as a producer with sensibility, made her the (of which WEWS is an There were only three “The Phil Donahue Show” ideal person to set up affiliate) recognized the major broadcast networks in New York City. news-related stores as show’s success and and PBS; almost every In 1988, she joined well as segments focused decided to adapt The home in America had a TV; “CBS This Morning,” on lifestyle and popular Morning Exchange for and many women were where she worked until culture. She produced a national audience – homebound, not part of retirement in 2009. stories such as the Great creating Good Morning the national work force She held various titles, American Weight-Loss, America. yet. People received much including planning American Beauty, Fall of their daily information producer, literary editor Home & Fix-Up and book Jane Temple worked with Carol Story from TV shows like the and personal producer reviews, to name just at WEWS TV’s “Morning Exchange” “Morning Exchange” and for Julie Chen. Her a few. in 1974 and 1978-1984. Jane’s from the segments Carol responsibilities also took The lengthy and career included 14 years at WEWS produced. As one of the her to the center of a impactful career that as associate producer, executive first three producers of series of very important began when she took a producer of “Morning Exchange” and the show, Carol set the national stories, including chance and left nursing “Afternoon Exchange” and assistant standards for talk show the Oklahoma City school for a little show on program director. She also worked on formatting that served as a bombing, the Montana TV had a long and broad independent productions for several model around the country, Freeman standoff and influence on talent, staff Cleveland network stations, as a and the nascent “Good Hurricane Felix. Producing and countless viewers, in producer for Beachwood Studios and Morning America.” Carol breaking news stories Cleveland and across the from 2007-2010 she was promotion worked as “MX” associate on site and populating country. and continuity director for producer until 1974, and them with critical players WVIZ/ideastream.

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HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 17 The Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame

The Press Club of Cleveland opening in 1965. established its Journalism Hall The Press Club collection at of Fame in 1981 to recognize Nighttown also includes large- individual achievements and format photographs from contributions to Cleveland The Cleveland Press and The media, preserve a sense Plain Dealer depicting rarely of local journalism’s past seen iconic scenes from and create a tradition and Cleveland’s history. collective inspiration for those Also on display is an who followed in the future. authorized reproduction of Nominations for the hall a huge mural that hung at are made by club members. Kornman’s, a restaurant on The Hall of Fame Nominating Short Vincent in downtown Committee selects inductees, Cleveland, depicting the whose names are ratified by Damon Runyonesque the board of directors. denizens of the block-long Plaques honoring inductees street during its colorful are displayed at Nighttown, heyday of saloons and Nighttown has been welcoming guests on Cedar Road in located at the top of the theaters in the 1920s and Cleveland Heights since 1965. Cedar Road hill in the ’30s. Created by Cleveland fashionable Cedar-Fairmount Press artist Bill Roberts, the district of Cleveland Heights mural came to Nighttown (www.nighttowncleveland. through the efforts of com). Nighttown is the Cleveland photographer unofficial home of The Press Tim Ryan and the Western Club because of its long and Reserve Historical Society. colorful history as a favorite haunt of local journalists since

Details of the mural by Cleve- The photo of former Cleve- land Press artist Bill Roberts land Mayor Ralph Perk’s hair capture an earlier era in Cleve- catching on fire is one of many land’s history. seminal moments captured in The Press Club photo archive.

Nighttown owner Brendan Ring: “Nighttown is about history. The Press Club is about history. People come in and read the plaques on the wall and see the famous photographs. It’s living, it’s breathing.”

Hall of Fame plaques share walls with historic photos.

18 The Press Club of Cleveland | 2017 | HALL OF FAME Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame 2017 Jack Graney 2003 1997 1988 Joe Frolik Eileen Korey Tom Brazaitis Donald L. Bean Bob August Janet Macoska Ralph and Terry Kovel Virgil Dominic Marion Hopwood Kelly Peter Bellamy Russ Mitchell Martin Savidge Janet McCue Edward D. Kuekes J.H.A. Bone David Molyneaux John Teresko Joe Tait Carl T. Robertson Charles Day Joe Mosbrook Leonard Will Russell Schneider Carol Story 2009 John H. Sheridan 1986 Walt Bogdanich 2002 Liberty Holden 2016 Regina Brett Brent Larkin 1996 Herb Kamm Steven Litt Elizabeth McIntyre Jim Donovan Robert G. McGruder Dan Coughlin Wayne Mack Mike McIntyre Dick Russ Arnold Miller James E. Doyle Ray Osrin Eva Parziale Betsy Sullivan Peter Miller Frank Gibbons Romona Robinson Paul Sciria Stan Modic Fred Griffith 1985 George Shuba Bill Wynne Carl Monday Ed McAuley Edwin Cowles Alice Weston Winsor French 2015 2008 2001 Nathaniel R. Howard Mark Dawidziak Pete Cary Dick Goddard 1995 Franklin A. Lewis Bob Dyer Tom Meyer Wes Lawrence Ray Matjasic Tom Hamilton William F. Miller Andrew Logan Lou Mio 1984 Ken Robinson Jane Temple Norm Mlachak Michael D. Roberts Lynn Heinzerling Liz (Ludlow) Vaccariello George Anthony Moore Eber D. Howe 2007 Bill Tanner 1994 Doris O’Donnell 2014 Ed Bang Marjorie Wilson Nev Chandler Norman Shaw Ed Byers Doug Clifton Dick Feagler Constance D. Harper Paul Orlousky Ted Gup 2000 Mary Strassmeyer 1983 Wilma Smith Lute Harmon Sr. Joseph W. Gray Howard Beaufait Tom Suddes Richard Osborne Claire MacMurray 1993 James W. Collins Tim Taylor Howard Hugh Danaceau Erie C. Hopwood 2013 Grace Goulder Izant Jimmy Dudley Richard J. McLaughin Jeff Darcy 2006 Ned Whelan Pauline Thoma Paul Hoynes Marjorie (Marge) Alge Dick Zunt 1982 Dee Perry Casey Coleman Neil Zurcher 1992 Louis Clifford Mary Anne Sharkey Cynthia Dettelbach Ken Coleman Gordon Cobbledick Violet Spevack Ron Kuntz 1999 Chuck Heaton Edward W. Scripps Alex Machaskee Leon Bibb Don Robertson William O. Walker 2012 Bob Dolgan Jim Collins 2005 Betty Klaric 1991 1981 Ted Diadiun Vivian Goodman Betty Cope Regis McAuley Hilbert Black Paul Bellamy Vern Henry Ray DeCrane Sanford Sobul Hal Lebovitz Bruce Catton Stuart Warner Bob Larkin John Webster Jane Scott David Dietz Terry Pluto Bob Yonkers Dorothy Fuldheim 2011 Connie Schultz 1990 Roelif A. Loveland Tom Beres Paul Tepley 1998 George Condon William F. McDermott Tom Feran William W. Armstrong Russell L. Faist Philip W. Porter Phillip Morris 2004 Emerson L. Batdorff Sanford E. Markey John W. Raper Tom Andrzejewski Bus Bergen Louis B. Seltzer Kelly O’Donnell Roldo Bartimole Bob Paynter Bill Hickey 1989 Artemus Ward Gilbert W. Henderson Herb Score James (Hal) Donahey Milt Widder Ted Henry 2010 Fred McGunagle Ben Tidyman John Rees Joanna Connors John A. Penton Bill Roberts Mark Dodosh Tony Tomsic Josephine Robertson

To see Nighttown owner Brendan Ring discuss the Hall of Fame, visit http://tinyurl.com/CleHOFvideo For more information, visit www.pressclubcleveland.com.

HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 19 The Chuck Heaton Award Tom Moore BY CARRIE BUCHANAN

For the past 20 years, Tom Moore has been one constant of the Cleveland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Tom became our chapter’s During Tom’s time at when they and broadcast himself, and earlier this year, secretary-treasurer in 1998, WTAM, he has been a literal AP members in Ohio were became the support group’s and since then, it has been “jack of all trades.” He has merged into the Ohio AP facilitator and coordinator. his responsibility to handle been a street reporter. Media Editors Association. Tom says his most chapter correspondence, He’s been a news anchor. Tom’s alma mater, fulfilling activity is being a keep chapter files and watch He has anchored news Central Michigan University, very active member of his the chapter’s spending. It’s a during both morning and also benefits from his time church, St. Angela Merici big job, but Tom loves doing afternoon drives, middays and expertise. In 2000, he Catholic Parish in Fairview it, and it’s just one of many and evenings. Currently, he created an annual Alumni Park, where he is a lector hats he wears outside of is heard on some of WTAM’s Takeover of campus radio and a Eucharistic minister. work. sister stations owned by station WMHW. What started Tom also team-teaches in Radio listeners in iHeartMedia in other cities. as a way to have some fun the Parish School of Religion Cleveland and Northeast So, weekday mornings, and bring back memories at St. Angela with his wife, Ohio know Tom as an award- you may hear Tom anchor has become a fundraiser for Karen Voinovich. They work winning news anchor. After a Youngstown news on WKBN, a scholarship, given to an with eighth-graders who are radio news career that took Akron/Canton news on outstanding first-year student preparing for confirmation. him from Jackson, Michigan, WHLO or Mansfield/Ashland in CMU’s School of Broadcast Tom gives much of to Bay City, Michigan, to news on WMAN. That’s on and Cinematic Arts. Shortly the credit for his desire Wilmington, Delaware, top of reports he’ll do during after creating the Alumni to volunteer time to the and Salisbury, Maryland, news on WTAM. Takeover, Tom was chosen to influence of his wife, Karen. he wound up in 1987 in While Tom wears many serve on the School of BCA’s Shortly after they married Northeast Ohio. hats at work, he also has Alumni Advisory Committee. in 1995, Tom found out that Tom’s first year in numerous of roles outside The committee meets Karen’s family has a belief Northeast Ohio was as of work. He has been on twice a year so that school that you should serve your news director for WBKC the board of SPJ Cleveland’s administrators and faculty fellow man. That belief in Painesville, hosting the chapter since 1995, most can hear from graduates goes back to her paternal station’s three-hour morning of that time as secretary- about the status of the grandfather, George S. news block. During that treasurer. He also spends broadcast industry. Voinovich. Tom adopted that time, he was “discovered” many hours helping out with In 2011, Tom’s life philosophy, and a lot of other and hired to be an anchor the Ohio SPJ Awards, both changed when he underwent people are the better for it. and reporter for Cleveland’s organizing and, often, as an surgery to remove an WERE. After five years at emcee. Hey, we can’t let that acoustic neuroma, a small Carrie Buchanan is president of the WERE and a brief time voice go to waste! (1.3 centimeter long) benign Society of Professional Journalists out of radio, working for That’s not the only way tumor in the area between Cleveland Pro Chapter and an the nonprofit Substance Tom has served fellow the inner ear and the brain. assistant professor in the Tim Russert Abuse Initiative of Greater journalists. He served He lost the hearing in his Department of Communication and Cleveland, Tom was hired two non-consecutive left ear, and also some facial Theatre at John Carroll University. in 1995 at what was then terms as president of the function, but he’s healthy. known as WWWE, later to Ohio Associated Press Being the kind of guy he is, become WTAM. He has been Broadcasters Association. Tom got involved with a local on the news staff of WTAM During his second term, he support group of acoustic for 22 years. worked with print journalists neuroma patients like

20 The Press Club of Cleveland | 2017 | HALL OF FAME RECIPIENTS 2017 The Chuck Heaton Award Tom Moore 2016 Danita Harris 2015 Betsy Kling 2014 Wayne Dawson

The Chuck Heaton Award is Heaton, who worked at Club executive leaders. 2013 bestowed upon the print, radio, the PD for 50 years and was Press Club of Cleveland Jim McIntyre online or television journalist inducted into The Press Club board member John Betchkal who best exemplifies the of Cleveland Journalism Hall of was the driving force behind 2012 sensitivity and humility that, Fame in 1992, died in 2008. creation of the Heaton Award. Jack Marschall along with his journalism talent, Nominations are solicited Betchkal and Heaton were 2011 were traits exhibited by Chuck from the general membership friends when Betchkal was a Heaton during his exemplary of The Press Club and the Hall young reporter at The Cleveland Herb Thomas career as a sports writer at The of Fame Committee. Selection Press. 2010 Plain Dealer. is made by a panel of Press Margaret Bernstein 2009 John Telich 2008 Terry Pluto

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HALL OF FAME | 2017 | The Press Club of Cleveland 23 CONGRATS TO ALL 2017 PRESS CLUB OF CLEVELAND HONOREES INCLUDING LONG-TIME INDIANS PHOTOGRAPHER JANET MACOSKA AND TRIBE MEDIA PARTNERS RUSS MITCHELL, JOE MOSBROOK AND TOM MOORE

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Thank you for your dedication in honoring and maintaining CLUB OF CLEVELAND HONOREES the rich history of journalism in Greater Cleveland. INCLUDING LONG-TIME INDIANS PHOTOGRAPHER JANET MACOSKA AND TRIBE MEDIA PARTNERS RUSS MITCHELL, JOE MOSBROOK AND TOM MOORE 16-1203

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28 The Press Club of Cleveland | 2017 | HALL OF FAME Congratulations Joe F., Janet, David Spero Russ, David, Joe M., Management Carol & Tom! Appreciates the Mike Conway artistry of Sherwin-Williams Director Janet Macoska Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Congratulations to [email protected] Janet and all the honorees

The Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists A local chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists My wonderful Proudly salutes GCABJ member and Hall of Fame inductee, friend in Russ Mitchell Cleveland and Congratulations on your achievements and thank you for your contribution now in to the field of journalism. South Florida. Your work is greatly appreciated. Mazal tov, Carol Story. -Morrie Zryl

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