Join Us on Summer 2012 Newsletter of The Press Club of Cleveland From the President Collins, Diadiun, Goodman, Henry, Warner to Enter Ed Byers Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame As you can see, we Jack Marschall to Receive 2012 Heaton Award have combined our July and August editions into a single summer of 2012 edition. So, there is much catching up to do from our May edition and, first off, I want to say ‘thank you’ to Lee Moran and her hardworking Excellence in Journalism Collins Diadiun Goodman Henry Warner committee for the annual June awards program that just keeps getting better Jim Collins, Ted Diadiun, Vivian Since 1996, Vivian Goodman is a report- and better, year after year. Goodman, Vern Henry and Stuart Warner er, producer and host of the award-winning Giving out several hundred awards in have been selected by Press Club members radio news programs Fresh Air and All such a relatively short amount of time for induction into The Press Club of Things Considered broadcast on WKSU- is no small task and everyone continues Cleveland’s Journalism Hall of Fame. Jack FM, Kent State University. Goodman began to marvel at how quickly we do it and Marschall was chosen by The Press Club her award-winning WKSU stint in 1996. how the event has evolved over the years, as the recipient of the 2012 Chuck Heaton A Cleveland resident, Goodman has been becoming the premier journalism awards Award. (More on Marschall on page 7.) chosen by the Cleveland Association of event in the state of Ohio. The emcees, Here is a glimpse at the Hall of Fame Broadcasters as one of the “20 Broadcast Press Club Hall of Famers Dan Coughlin Class of 2012 inductees: Legacy Award” inductees. A winner of and Dick Feagler, at peak form, kept News-Herald Editor Emeritus James a number of Press Club Excellence in everyone wonderfully entertained and at K. Collins is 83 and still writes a regular Journalism awards, Goodman began a very brisk pace. Thank you, Danny and Sunday column. Collins is regarded as the working in commercial radio in Akron Dick – you guys were great! single most visible, authoritative and influ- at WHLO-AM and then moved on to Now for the Hall of Fame. There were ential communicator for the community he anchor newscasts on Cleveland’s all-news 12 finalists vying for induction into this has served for decades. In 1967 he achieved WERE-AM. She has worked in radio year’s Press Club of Cleveland Journalism the position of editor of The News-Herald. news in Cleveland, Akron, Chicago and Hall of Fame are: Jim Collins (The News- He was named Best Editorial Writer in Washington, D.C. Herald), Ted Diadiun (The Plain Dealer), Ohio three times by the Associated Press. In a journalism career spanning nearly Vivian Goodman (WKSU, WERE), His weekly column is “must reading” for five decades, Vernon E. Henry was twice Bill Gunlocke (Scene), Vern Henry area residents who want to keep their fin- nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won (Advanstar), Ken Robinson (WTAM gers on the pulse of community events. He more than 30 Associated Press and United NewsRadio 1100), Mark Russell (The has been writing the “Editor’s Notebook” Press International awards. Henry served Plain Dealer), Mary Ann Sharkey (The column every Sunday since 1973. as executive editor for Rowley Publications’ Plain Dealer), Tom Sheeran (Associated Ted Diadiun has been a newspaperman seven newspapers in Northeast Ohio and in Press), Liz Vaccariello, Cleveland for 44 years, the last 22 at The Plain Dealer. 1978, Henry won the National Newspaper Magazine, Readers Digest), Norman He has served as metro editor, sports edi- Association Best Column Award. In Wagy, WJW-TV 8, Storer) and Stuart tor and assistant managing editor/admin- 2001, he received the American Business Warner (The Plain Dealer, Beacon- istration before becoming the paper’s first Publication Editors’ Lifetime Achievement Journal). reader representative in April 2005. Now Award. In 2004, he was the recipient of the The votes have been counted and the retired, he continues to serve as reader rep American Business Media Crain Award five 2012 inductees selected by YOU, on a freelance basis. Diadiun began his for a distinguished editorial career. With our members, are Collins, Diadiun, newspaper career in 1968 at the Painesville Henry as corporate editorial director, Goodman, Henry and Warner. Their Telegraph. He then started with The News- Advanstar publications won 32 Jesse H. bios appear on page one and continue on Herald in Willoughby as a sportswriter in Neal awards, the Pulitzer of the business page 6. Congrats to these fine journalists 1973. Diadiun was named sports editor in press. Henry retired in February 2010 as on their induction, to take place Friday 1976. He left sports in 1980 and ran the corporate editorial director at Advanstar. continued on page 2 > paper’s newsroom, first as managing editor In his more than 40-year newspaper and then executive editor. continued on page 6> 28022 Osborn Road Cleveland, Ohio 44140 | 440-899-1222 | Fax: 440.899.1010 | www.pressclubcleveland.com 2 The Press Club of Cleveland Summer 2012 Deciphering Plaid English Laurie Mitchell Certified Personnel Consultant Disclaimer: Nothing questions, it often required patience to conversations we would have over twelve in this column should hear him out. days. be inferred as insulting Early this spring, my husband and I Scotland is beautiful, and I am now to either Scots or those booked a week-long tour of Scotland fol- educated about Scottish/English/French of Scottish descent, and lowed by four days on its picturesque west intrigues and alliances, clan warfare, the opinions expressed coast with friends who live in England half tartans, kilts, the Caledonia canal, are mine alone. the year. We planned to arrive in Glasgow the Edinburgh Military Tattoo and A couple months a day before our tour commenced to recov- “Heathergems.” I have studied castles, back, I received the er from jet lag, and to go sightseeing in this walked battlefields, hunted Nessie, toured a résumé of a well- formerly renowned shipbuilding center distillery, survived a whiskey tasting, sam- trained and rather accomplished young home to “the tobacco barons” of the 1800s pled haggis, been astounded by a Border Glaswegian married to a Clevelander (it was twenty days’ less sailing time to collie show on a working sheep farm, and whose family still resides here. Living on Virginia from Glasgow than from London) feasted my eyes on quaint fishing villages. the high-rent east coast, both have excel- and to the fabulous Art Nouveau designer The lovely, gentle Scots have no sense of lent jobs, but the time has come to pur- Charles Rennie Mackintosh. urgency, chatter endlessly with every trans- chase a house and start a family so they’re So, naturally, I phoned Ewen for his per- action, digress to the point of distraction, hoping to relocate to Northeast Ohio. His sonal recommendation on what to see in and kindly give directions that are utterly experience ought to make him an excellent Glasgow. But as many times as I redirected unintelligible. hire for one of my clients. my inquiries and as loquacious as he was “Ewen” has a charming brogue and a he couldn’t or wouldn’t express an opinion. Laurie Mitchell & Company, Inc. delightful way with words. However, each Round and round we went until I finally Marketing Communications time we spoke, I was struck by his mean- thanked him and hung up, not guessing Executive Search dering, non-linear conversational style. that his manner of speaking was a “wee” [email protected] While he would eventually answer my – as the Scots say – foreshadowing of the www.LaurieMitchellCompany.com PRESIDENT FROM PAGE 1 Press Club Hall of Famer Jane Scott’s Memorial evening Oct. 12 at the Hilton Garden Inn Unveiled at Rock Hall downtown! A cast-bronze statue of the late Jane Scott slightly larger than life, but in great detail. I am also happy to announce that Jack (Press Club of Cleveland Hall of Fame, Scott’s beaming likeness has a concert Marschall has been chosen as the recipi- Class of ’91) complete with a replica of her ticket pinned to her jacket, as was her ent of the 2012 Chuck Heaton Award signature red eyeglasses was unveiled July 5 wont. Her bulging purse includes a jar of which will be presented to him by the at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. peanut butter, because she made a point Heaton family at the induction ceremonies. The bronze memorial is a gift from Scott’s of always carrying peanut-butter sand- Congrats to Jack, one of the best to grace Family, namely her nephew Bill Scott and wiches while on assignment. And in her the Cleveland TV airwaves! nieces Linda Scott Cook and Sarah Scott notebook are written two questions that Also, thanks to John Betchkal and his Gooding. Scott’s family also donated a she often asked the musicians she inter- Hall of Fame nominating committee con- significant collection of Scott’s items to the viewed: “What’s your favorite color?” and sisting of Rich Osborne, Dan Coughlin, Rock Hall’s Library and Archives, including “Where did you go to high school?” Margaret Bernstein, Richard Stewart and 4,000 LP records and 300 notebooks. Scott retired in 2002, after 50 years at Jeff Bendix for their hard work in finaliz- “If it wasn’t for Jane, I wouldn’t be stand- The Plain Dealer. Jane Scott died last July ing this year’s slate of nominees.