Every year, NABJ pays homage to legendary black journalists who have made outstanding contributions to the industry.

On April 5, 1990, seven distinguished journalists became charter members of the NABJ Hall of Fame. Over the last 17 years, NABJ has inducted 35 journalists into the esteemed Hall of Fame.

Nominations are approved by the NABJ Board of Directors. New inductees are installed annually at the NABJ Hall of Fame Banquet and Inductions. The event is tentatively scheduled to take place in Washington, DC. We'll have more details.

 

		2009 INDUCTEES

	Earl Caldwell Reporter and early Civil Rights Activist (New York)
	Peggy Peterman (posthumous) St. Petersburg Times (Florida); (posthumous)
	Lynn Norment Editor, EBONY Magazine (Chicago)
	Larry Whiteside Reporter, The Boston Globe (Boston), (posthumous)

 

 

 

		2008 INDUCTEES

	Charles E. Cobb, Jr. AllAfrica.com
	Belva Davis KQED-TV (San Francisco)
	Vernon Jarrett Chicago Tribune (posthumous)
	Les Payne Newsday columnist

2007 INDUCTEES Xernona Clayton-Brady Trumpet Awards founder and broadcast pioneer Merv Aubespin Past NABJ President, 1983-1985 Artist, reporter and editor The Courier-Journal John L. Dotson, Jr. Former president and publisher Akron Beacon Journal Co-founder, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Jim Vance Co-anchor WRC-TV 2006 INDUCTEES Lerone Bennett Jr. Executive Editor Emeritus Ebony magazine Al Fitzpatrick Former Executive Editor Knight-Ridder William Raspberry Columnist The Washington Post 2005 INDUCTEES Charles "Teenie" Harris Photojournalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault Broadcast Journalist & Author Max Robinson Founding NABJ Member Former ABC News Anchor Carole Simpson Former ABC Anchor World News Tonight Sunday 2004 INDUCTEES John H. Johnson Publisher and Chairman Johnson Publishing Co. Robert Maynard Co-founder, Institute for Journalism Education Chuck Stone Founding NABJ President 1990 INDUCTEES Seven distinguished journalists became charter members of the Hall of Fame on April 5, 1990, at a formal induction ceremony in Washington. Dorothy Butler Gilliam "magnetic presence" as a reporter, editor and columnist at The Washington Post. Mal H. Goode broke color barrier in network broadcast journalism as ABC News reporter in 1962. Mal Johnson a founding NABJ member, longtime correspondent for Cox Broadcasting Co. Gordon Parks renowned photojournalist at Life magazine, author, filmmaker. Ted Poston called "dean of black journalists" during New York Post career (1930's-1960's). Norma Quarles veteran network anchor and correspondent at NBC News, CNN and PBS. Carl T. Rowan renowned columnist once called nation's "most visible black journalist."

		LEGENDARY INDUCTEES

Accepting a strong recommendation from the NABJ Hall of Fame Screening Committee, the Board of Directors voted in April 2004 to induct 10 historical journalism figures as a one-time measure. The committee's rationale was that any legitimate Hall of Fame of black journalists must include these legendary figures and that 2004 revival of the Hall of Fame was the appropriate time to include them. Robert S. Abbott founded the Chicago Defender, which helped create the Great Migration to the North. Samuel E. Cornish co-publisher, Freedoms Journal, the nation's first black newspaper. Frederick Douglass a former slave and the nation's most prominent abolitionist and the publisher of the North Star. W.E.B. DuBois a NAACP founder and creator and first editor of its magazine, The Crisis. T. Thomas Fortune one of the most prominent black journalists in the post-Civil War era. Ethel Payne First Lady of the Black Press, D.C. correspondent for Sengstacke Newspapers. Marcus Garvey journalist for Africa Times and Orient Review, publisher of Negro World. John B. Russwurm co-publisher, Freedoms Journal, the nation's first black newspaper. John Sengstacke founder of Michigan Chronicle and publisher of Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier. Ida B. Wells-Barnett newspaper editor, crusader against segregation and lynching in United States.