Washington Post reporter Martin Weil, Fox News Channel White House correspondent Wendell Goler, CCH Washington Bureau Chief Paula Cruickshank and Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr., will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the D.C. Pro chapter of Society of Professional Journalists on June 14.
The four veteran journalists will speak at the chapter’s annual Dateline Awards dinner at Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant, 5222 Wisconsin Ave. NW in Washington, DC.
On the same evening, the D.C. Pro chapter’s 2011 Distinguished Service Award will go to Barbara Feinman Todd and Asra Nomani of Georgetown University, co-founders of the Pearl Project.
The criterion for the Hall of Fame is 25 years practicing strong journalism in Washington.
Martin Weil has that number beat by two decades. He left the University of California in 1962 “to come to Washington by train for a period of underemployment,” he reports, arriving “only two months after trolley service was halted.” He joined the Washington Post in 1965, where as a reporter he “operated a manual typewriter for about 15 years, then switched to the first of many computer systems. Still learning our latest one.”
Weil still files stories, too, often two or three per day. He is renowned for fast, clean writing, vast institutional knowledge and an uncanny memory of random facts.
Wendell Goler began his journalism career as a staff photographer who also was expected to write stories for the Jackson, 
Michigan, Citizen Patriot. He came to Washington in 1976 to work as a reporter for WRC-AM, which then was owned by NBC and was part of the network’s nationwide all news radio service. After working briefly for WJLA-TV, Goler went to Associated Press Radio in 1981 as an editor, then an anchor.
He was named AP Radio’s White House correspondent in 1986 and kept the same title when he went to work for the just-established Fox News Channel in 1996.
Paula Cruickshank is Senior White House Correspondent at the CCH (formerly Commerce Clearing House) Washington News Bureau, a Wolters Kluwer business. She has covered domestic policy over the course of six administrations, reporting first on President Carter’s anti-inflation program and followed by – but not limited to – tax policy, budget issues and health care reform.
In 2005, she became bureau chief for CCH, which provides specialized business news and information services for tax, accounting, legal and business professionals.
As a writer, staff reporter and currently senior news reporter for the Washington Blade, Lou Chibbaro, Jr., has for more 
than 30 years covered the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and particularly its struggle for civil rights. Chibbaro has reported stories involving the White House, Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, presidential elections, the military, local and national law enforcement agencies and the Catholic Church. He has written about the AIDS epidemic since the early 1980s and covered the 1999 trial of one of two men charged with murdering gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard.
Asra Nomani is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a contributor to the Daily Beast and a lecturer in journalism at Georgetown University's English Department. 
Barbara Feinman Todd is the Journalism Director in Georgetown’s English Department where she teaches, and was the founding associate dean of the university’s MPS in Journalism graduate program.
Together, they founded the Pearl Project, organizing more than 30 students to investigate the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The project’s report, issued last January, found that four men convicted in Pakistan in 2002 were not present during the murder and that U.S. officials know it. The project concluded that Pearl was killed by al-Qaida strategist Khalid Sheik Mohammad as a part of a “multifaceted, at times chaotic conspiracy” involving at least 27 men, members of three or more militant groups. As many as 14 of the conspirators are thought to remain free, according to the project report.
The chapter also will give out its annual Dateline Awards for journalism excellence at the dinner. The judging is complete. Invitations for finalists (and everyone else) will be in the mail soon.
Tickets for the June 14 dinner are now available for $80 for SPJ members (plus one guest per member) and $110 for nonmembers.
Contact dinner co-chairs Tim Ebner (tebner86@gmail.com) or Garth Hogan (ghogan@asmusa.org) to make a reservation or if you have any questions.