Hall of Fame and DSA honorees named

CBS News correspondent and anchor Bob Schieffer, U.S. News & World Report correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh and Bureau of National Affairs editor Toby McIntosh have accepted induction into the Hall of Fame of SPJ’s Washington, D.C., Pro chapter.

The three veteran journalists will speak at the chapter’s annual awards dinner on June 9 at the National Press Club.

Schieffer is CBS’s chief Washington correspondent and also serves as anchor and moderator of the Sunday public affairs broadcast Face The Nation. He was interim anchor of The CBS Evening News from March 2005 until August 2006.

Kenneth Walsh has been White House correspondent for USN&WR since the Reagan administration and has written four books about the presidency, the most recent being From Mount Vernon To Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats.

Toby McIntosh, a former White House correspondent for BNA, now is the company’s director of editorial quality review.

Also at the June 9 dinner, the D.C. Pro chapter’s 2009 Distinguished Service Award will go to columnist Courtland Milloy of The Washington Post for his many years of advocacy for disadvantaged and disenfranchised residents of the Washington metropolitan area.