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The D.C. Pro chapter is pleased to announce this year's Hall of Fame class — Jim Bohannon, Barbara Cochran, Jack Limpert and Mel Elfin — and Distinguished Service Award winner, Sue Kopen Katcef.
We will have a great time honoring them and hearing them speak at our annual dinner on June 15 at Maggiano's. Please put that date aside and join us.
We'll also give out our annual Dateline Awards for editorial excellence that evening. We had a very good turnout for this year's contest, which included new categories for online journalism and blogging.
Here is our news release on our honorees:
Westwood One radio host Jim Bohannon, Radio-Television Digital News Association [RTDNA] President Emeritus Barbara Cochran, Editor-at-Large Jack Limpert of Washingtonian magazine and former Newsweek magazine Washington Bureau Chief Mel Elfin will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the D.C. Pro chapter of Society of Professional Journalists on June 15.
The four veteran journalists will speak at the chapter’s annual Dateline Awards dinner at Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant, 5222 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20015. (Click for map and directions.)
On the same evening, the D.C. Pro chapter’s 2010 Distinguished Service Award will go to Sue Kopen Katcef of the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill College of Journalism.
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Jim Bohannon is host of “The Jim Bohannon Show” which can be heard from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (ET) Monday through Friday on more than 500 radio stations across the nation. He also hosts the news magazine program “America In The Morning,” also heard coast to coast. Bohannon was voted one of "The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" by Talkers Magazine three years in a row and is a member of the national Radio Hall of Fame.
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As president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association, Barbara Cochran led that organization into its recent restructuring as RTDNA. Earlier in her career, she was vice president and Washington bureau chief of CBS News, executive producer of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” vice president of news for National Public Radio and managing editor of the Washington Star.
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Jack Limpert had been editing The Washingtonian, one of the nation's most popular and respected city magazines, for more than 40 years when he stepped down as editor last fall. During his tenure, the magazine won National Magazine Awards for public service, reporting, feature writing, and service to the individual. At an SPJ luncheon last fall, Limpert advised young reporters "to not become cynical or sophisticated — stay astonished at what you see in Washington."
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During Mel Elfin’s long service as Washington bureau chief of Newsweek, the magazine produced strong coverage of the Pentagon papers, Watergate and other big stories of the '60s, '70s and '80s. In 1987, Elfin was hired by U.S. News and World Report to revamp its system for rating the nation’s colleges and universities. As executive editor of “America’s Best Colleges,” Elfin and others combined the rankings with coordinated stories on American higher education to create a lucrative franchise for U.S. News.
- Sue Kopen Katcef is SPJ’s national campus adviser at-large and adviser to the University of Maryland student chapter. Sue is also a member of the board of SPJ’s D.C. Pro chapter and is president-elect of the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association.
For more information, contact Stephenie Overman at saoverman@comcast.net
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