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Martin Anderson - Inducted in 1990
Andersen, the crusading owner-editor of the Orlando Sentinel until 1965, was an astute businessman, politician and visionary, who has been called "the strongest influence in the development of modern-day Orlando." He came to Orlando in 1931 as managing editor of the newly... more.
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Andrew Barnes - Inducted in 2007
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (retired) St. Petersburg Times Andy Barnes, 68, is a native of New York City and a graduate of Harvard University where he took his degree in history. He began his professional career on the Providence(R.I.) Journal. After two years in the... more.
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Beryl Bowden - Inducted in 1995
Bowden was the publisher of the Clewiston News for 27 years and a voice for community progress in Glades and Hendry counties for more than 50 years. In addition to her services at the Clewiston News, Bowden also helped publish the Glades County Democrat, in Moore haven; the Everglades... more.
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Alvah Chapman, Jr. - Inducted in 2004
Alvah H. Chapman Jr.'s vision as a newspaper executive cemented the role of The Miami Herald as a powerhouse of Florida journalism and has had a lasting imprint on the business of journalism nationwide. Chapman was among the first of a "new breed" of newspaper executives who realized that having... more.
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James Clendinen - Inducted in 1991
Clendinen retired in 1985, 50 years after joining the Tampa Tribune as a courthouse reporter. During that time he worked his way to editorial page editor, from which he campaigned vigorously for reforms that reshaped his city and his state. These included open government, election... more.
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Carrol Dadisman - Inducted in 2009
Carrol Dadisman graduated from the University of Georgia College of Journalism in 1956. During the next 24 years, he advanced rapidly with a number of Georgia newspapers. He went from government reporter to managing editor at his first newspaper, The Augusta Chronicle. He then served as... more.
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Herbert Davidson - Inducted in 1989
Davidson was editor of the Daytona Beach News-Journal from 1928 through 1985, and publisher from 1962 through 1985. He fought tirelessly on behalf of open government, civil rights and the First Amendment throughout his career. Davidson was arrested twice in pursuit of press freedom. He... more.
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H. G. Davis - Inducted in 2001
H.G. "Buddy" Davis was an outstanding faculty member at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications for 31 years. A gifted instructor, he ran many of his reporting, editorial and photography classes like a newsroom to give students a sense of the real world. For 27 of... more.
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Derek Dunn-Rankin - Inducted in 2005
Derek Dunn-Rankin started his newspaper career as a paperboy for the Miami News. He worked his way up the management ladder there, at various newspapers in North Carolina, and then at the Norfolk Pilot, ultimately serving as President. He was Vice President of Landmark Community... more.
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Loyal Frisbie - Inducted in 1989
Frisbie became the editor of the family-owned Polk County Democrat in Bartow in 1946. He maintained that position for 18 years and served as publisher for 17 years, receiving numerous awards for editorial leadership and outstanding service to his community and the newspaper industry. Frisbie... more.
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Barbara Frye - Inducted in 1990
Frye was 19 years old, just out of the University of Georgia and working in UPIÌs Atlanta bureau when she was selected, in 1944, to run UPI's Florida Bureau. She filled that position in Tallahassee for 38 years, covering 11 governors from Spessard Holland to Bob Graham and every... more.
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Robert Gore - Inducted in 1992
Robert H. Gore was owner and publisher of the Ft. Lauderdale Daily News for 35 years. During that time, he played a major role in the development and growth of Broward County and South Florida. He was a reporter and editor for several midwest newspapers prior to becoming publisher of the Terra... more.
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Elven Grubbs - Inducted in 2002
Elven Grubbs' newspaper career spanned 40 years from his job as a pressman with the Ocala Star Banner in 1947 until his retirement in February 1992 as publisher of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. In Ocala, Grubbs advanced from the pressroom to the business side, displaying keen foresight while... more.
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Nina Hawkins - Inducted in 1999
Nina Hawkins was a pioneering woman editor for The St. Augustine Record and a leader in encouraging women newspaper journalists. She began her newspaper career as a bicycle-riding society reporter for The St. Augustine Record in 1910. During her 43-year career with the Record, she became the... more.
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Robert Hudson - Inducted in 1993
During a 37-year career at the Star-Advocate in Titusville, Hudson won numerous awards for excellence in journalism. In 1963, he received the William L. Lowry Award from the University of Florida School of Journalism for exemplifying "the highest ideals of journalism in the weekly newspaper... more.
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James Jesse - Inducted in 1990
Jesse worked for newspapers and radio stations in Kentucky and Louisiana before moving to Florida in 1954. Between 1954 and 1978, he worked as a publisher in Florida for the Punta Gorda Herald, Boca Raton News, Cocoa TODAY and the Pensacola News Journal. Jesse served as president of the... more.
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Malcolm Johnson - Inducted in 1990
Johnson had a 43-year newspaper career, with 41 of them spent in Tallahassee. During that time he worked for both the Tallahassee Democrat and the AP Capitol Bureau and became known as an expert on government, a champion for conservative individualism and an advocate of conservation... more.
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Charles Jones - Inducted in 1989
Jones established the Florida Daily Times in 1881 and consolidated it with the Daily Florida Union in 1882 to form the present-day Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. He emphasized news-gathering, recruited a chain of correspondents across Florida and was a crusading editorialist. Under his... more.
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John Paul Jones, Jr. - Inducted in 1989
Jones was a newspaper reporter and editor for several newspapers and United Press International in his early newspaper career as well as a journalism professor at the University of Florida. Jones was named the first secretary-manager of the Florida Press Association in 1952. During his 16-year... more.
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James Knight - Inducted in 1990
Knight was born into a famous newspaper family and joined his father's Akron Beacon Journal in 1931. He helped build one of the nation's largest and most respected newspaper groups, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, with a daily circulation of 3.2 million in 33 U.S. cities, including dailies in... more.
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John Knight - Inducted in 1989
Knight was publisher of the Miami Herald from 1937 through 1976. During his 50-year newspaper career, he built the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain into a nationwide organization with daily circulation of 3.2 million in 33 U.S. cities, including dailies in Tallahassee, Bradenton, Boca... more.
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David Lawrence, Sr. - Inducted in 1990
Lawrence worked at the old New York Herald-Tribune in the late 1930s and then continued during the Second World War at the old New York Sun. He made his mark by covering politics and the profiteering connected with the war. After the war, he and his family tried farming in upstate New York... more.
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Ernest Lyons - Inducted in 1994
Lyons began working as a reporter for The Stuart News in 1931. He also worked as an advertising salesman, printing salesman, then as advertising director for the paper. He became editor in 1945, serving until his retirement on March 1, 1975. He died April 6, 1990, at age 85... more.
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Eugene Matthews - Inducted in 1989
Matthews was publisher of the Bradford County Telegraph in Starke from 1933 through 1973. He spent his life in community grassroots journalism. He received several national awards and was invited to judge the Pulitzer awards for weekly newspapers in the 1950s. Matthews served two terms as FPA... more.
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Hugh McCallum - Inducted in 1989
McCallum was publisher of the Daily Florida Union in Jacksonville in the 1880s. He was a well-respected, pioneering journalist known throughout the state for his persuasive and constructive editorials. His newspaper became part of today's Florida Times-Union. McCallum led a handful of Florida... more.
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Al Neuharth - Inducted in 1996
Neuharth is the former president and chairman of the Gannett Co. and founder of USA TODAY. He worked his way up from reporter to assistant managing editor in seven years at the Miami Herald in the mid-1950s and was then named assistant executive editor of the Detroit Free-Press. He moved to the... more.
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Virgil Newton - Inducted in 1993
Newton was managing editor of the Tampa Tribune from 1943 through 1965. His crusading form of journalism led to his being called the father of investigative reporting in Florida. He helped bring about a new city charter in Tampa in 1945 and the establishment of the Minimum Foundation School Funding... more.
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Eugene Patterson - Inducted in 1997
Patterson had more than 40 years experience in the publishing field. His journalistic talents earned him the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1966 and the William Allen White National Award for journalistic merit in 1980. He began his newspaper career with the Temple (TX) Daily Telegram,... more.
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John Perry, Jr. - Inducted in 1989
Perry was president and chairman of Perry Publications, Inc., and owned and operated 28 newspapers throughout Florida as well as the statewide All-Florida News Service and All-Florida Magazine, a Sunday newspaper supplement. After 19 years with Perry Publications, he sold his... more.
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Fred Pettijohn - Inducted in 1991
Pettijohn retired from the Ft. Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel in 1982 after 30 years of service to the News, Gore Newspaper Co. and later the News/Sun Sentinel Company. He earned a reputation as a tough editor with an unerring instinct for quality and an expectation of commitment and... more.
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Nelson Poynter - Inducted in 1989
Poynter was editor and publisher of the St. Petersburg Times from 1938 through 1978. He was a crusading journalist for good government and the rights of minorities and the poor and, through his example, elevated the standards for independent and innovative newspaper journalism. Poynter was... more.
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John Schumann, Sr. - Inducted in 1998
Schumann served over 68 years in the newspaper business and he founded and led the Vero Beach Press-Journal from an outstanding weekly to an outstanding daily publication. He was very active in the state and national press associations and the Press-Journal was recognized as a leader in the... more.
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Daniel Carr Settle - Inducted in 2008
July 2, 1906 - February 1, 1973 Settle was prominent in Florida weekly newspaper circles from the 1930s through the 1960s and was a leader of the Florida Press Association during all those years. He served as president of the FPA in 1954-55. As a board member in 1965, Settle made the... more.
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Eric Simpson - Inducted in 2003
In April 1951, Simpson founded the weekly newspaper to report on news and developments of Blacks in Northeast Florida at a time when most newspapers ignored the Black community. Upon his death on January 9, 1994, The Florida Star was the second largest African-American weekly in the... more.
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Vince Spezzanno - Inducted in 2000
Vince Spezzano began his 41-year newspaper career in 1950 as a reporter for the Livingston Republican in Geneseo, N.Y. He worked at newspapers in Lynchburg, Va. and St. Louis, Mo, and in 1963 became director of public service for Gannett Times-Union and Democrat, and Chronicle... more.
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William Straub - Inducted in 1992
William L. Straub was editor or associate editor of the St. Petersburg Times for 38 years. No one in that era had more impact on the development of the city. He was a frontier newspaperman in the Dakota Territory prior to moving to Florida and buying the St. Petersburg Times in 1901 for $1,300... more.
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Rae Weimer - Inducted in 1990
Weimer is Dean Emeritus of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and also a veteran newspaper journalist. In the 1920s, 30s and 40s, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Illinois, Ohio and New York. Weimer came to the University of Florida in 194... more.
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Corbin Wyant - Inducted in 2006
Before retiring June 30, 2002, Corbin had been active in Florida newspapering since 1974 and in the newspaper business elsewhere from 1958 to 1973. He served as publisher of the Daily News Herald in Punta Gorda from 1974 to 1976. During that time he also was publisher of the weekly... more.
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