Class of 2019
The hall of fame was founded in 1966 to recognize those whose contributions to the field of journalism have earned them a place in Indiana journalism history.
The hall inducted its 2019 class Saturday, May 18.
Questions? Contact executive director Larry Taylor.
Inductees include:
- Nancy Comiskey, the first woman managing editor of The Indianapolis News in 1992, former deputy managing editor of The Indianapolis Star and a professor Indiana University who oversaw the launch of the award-winning 812:The Magazine of Southern Indiana;
- Richard Florea, former news director at WKJG-TV (now WISE) in Fort Wayne and a 2015 inductee of the Indiana Broadcasters Hall of Fame;
- Andrea Neal, former reporter who covered the Supreme Court for UPI, former member of the Indianapolis Star’s editorial page and a teacher at St. Richards Episcopal School in Indianapolis;
- Stephanie Salter, former sports reporter at Purdue and Sports Illustrated, part of an award-winning investigative team that exposed financial fraud and sex abuse in the San Francisco Archdiocese and a former Tribune-Star columnist in her native Terre Haute;
- The late Matthew Tully, who was a former reporter for the Gary Post-Tribune and later the Congressional Quarterly and former political reporter and general columnist at the Indianapolis Star, where he wrote a series of 30 columns about education issues called The Manual Project.
You Know Because We Were There
“You Know Because We Were There” is a video project produced by the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in collaboration with Ball State University. The project features video interviews with Hall of Fame inductees.
Please donate to the Video Project, or suggest names or videography help by emailing ijhf@indiana.edu.
