Living Legends of North Texas Journalism

The Living Legends of North Texas Journalism

Honored May 25, 2011 – click here for pictures of the event

Hugh Aynesworth – Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News reporter,  bureau chief for Newsweek magazine, reporter for 20/20 and a reporter for The Washington Times, author of 6 books;

Eddie Barker – news director of KRLD Radio/TV news director, charter year inductee of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame as well as a co-founder;

Kent Biffle – Dallas Morning News reporter/columnist, correspondent for Newsweek magazine;

Alex Burton – WBAP-TV anchor, Channel 39 news director, KRLD reporter and commentator, an author, written 3 books;

Vivian Castleberry – the first female editor of the Dallas Times Herald in 1957, editorial board member, member of the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame;

Ron Chapman – KVIL program director and radio personality for 45 years, member of the National Association of Broadcasters’ Radio Hall of Fame;

Mike Cochran – Associated Press reporter, author of 2 books; 

Jim Ewell – Dallas Morning News crime reporter, Public Information Director for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department;

John Gudjohnsen – WFAA-TV photographer for over 40 years, WFAA News Assignment Manager;

Bert Holmes – Dallas Times Herald executive and managing editor, wrote community affairs columns for over 30 years;

Helen Holmes –reporter for International News Service and Time magazine and founding member of the Press Club;

 Bob Huffaker – Reporter, Editor, News Producer at CBS News, KRLD AM-FM-TV News, Research Editor at Texas Monthly;

Shelly Katz – Photographer for Life, Time, Newsweek, and People Weekly magazines;

Ralph Langer – Dallas Morning News editor and executive vice president;

Jimmie Lovell  -  reporter for Dallas Times Herald, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, editor of West Texas magazine and Del Rio News Herald;

Phil Magers – State editor, bureau chief for nearly 40 years with United Press International; board member and treasurer at the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

Bill Mercer – Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, and Chicago White Sox play by play announcer, news reporter for KRLD, author of 2 books, over 35 years teaching at the University of North Texas Radio/TV Department;

Robert Miller – Dallas Morning News city editor and business columnist;

Blackie Sherrod – Dallas Times Herald sports editor and Dallas Morning News columnist; 

Bert Shipp – WFAA-TV news director, former WFAA and KDFW assignments editor, soon to be published author of “It’s News To Me”;

Carlton Stowers – Dallas Morning News reporter/sportswriter and author of more than two dozen works of nonfiction;

Dick Wheeler – KRLD Radio news director, anchor/reporter KRLD Radio/TV and WFAA Radio/TV;

Wes Wise – former Dallas Mayor, KRLD radio/TV sports reporter, play-by-play announcer for Liberty Broadcasting System, correspondent for Sports Illustrated, and wrote for Time and Life.

Bobbie Wygant – 60 years with WBAP/KXAS-TV as entertainment reporter, producer and host of interview program, news anchor;

Tony Zoppi, Dallas Morning News entertainment columnist, and for 30 years a Las Vegas bon vivant.