Inducted: 1978 TRAVIS WALSH (1924-1976) worked on Texas newspapers and for the Associated Press before joining the Tulsa Daily World in 1946. For twenty years he worked as state capitol and Washington correspondent, editorial writer and managing editor. In 1974 he served as president of the Oklahoma Associated Press Managing Editors, and the Eastern Oklahoma […]
Inducted: 1978 TRAVIS HENSLEY (1851-1944) was a double pioneer of Oklahoma Journalism. He made the run into the state when the Cheyenne-Arapaho lands were opened for settlement in 1892, established the first newspaper in the territory, the El Reno Democrat. The following year he established the first newspaper, The Westside Democrat of Enid, in the […]
Inducted: 1978 HAROLD R. BELKNAP (1904-1975) for more than fifty years helped build the Norman Transcript into one of the top daily newspapers in Oklahoma, a consistent award winner for excellence in state fair competitions. He became editor and publisher in 1969. A trustee for the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation, he was also president of the […]
Inducted: 1978 GEORGE HILL (1915-1994) ranks among the all-time greats of Oklahoma country editors, with more than 40 years as editor and publisher. He worked on the Ardmore Morning Democrat, Ada Bulletin, and Johnston County Capital-Democrat in the 1930’s. After World War II service he became co-publisher and editor of the Capital-Democrat (1946-48) and began […]
Inducted: 1978 FRED G. COWLES (1866-1949) was a newspaperman for 63 years, 31 of them as publisher of the McAlester News Capital (1918-49), until his death at the age of 83. The standard of his management system was community service and the use of much of his profits to update the equipment of his newspapers […]
Inducted: 1978 ERNEST J. “ERNIE” SCHULTZ (1930-2017) became national president of the Radio Television News Directors Association (1977-78) by the double route of a quarter-century of outstanding work as a television newsman and service to his various professional organizations. A 1951 Phi Delta Kappa graduate in radio news from the University of Oklahoma, he served […]
Inducted: 1978 EDWARD AUSTIN (1897-1975) worked on newspapers in Frederick, Oklahoma City, Chicago and Milwaukee before joining the Scripps Howard newspaper organization in Cleveland (1928). He became managing editor for both the San Diego Evening Tribune and Morning Union of Copley Newspapers in 1938. He rose to executive editor of all 17 Copley newspapers, retiring […]
Inducted: 1978 EDGAR T. BELL (1893-1972) came to Oklahoma City in 1915 as advertising manager of the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman. Ten years later he became general manager for the Oklahoma Publishing Co. and WKY radio, which he helped found. He retired from OPUBCO after 33 years and became station manager for KTOK (1950-53). Then he helped […]
Inducted: 1978 DONALD W. REYNOLDS (1906-1993), one of the nation’s most successful group newspaper publishers for nearly four decades, published 31 daily newspapers in eight states, 12 of them in Oklahoma. His Donrey company also owned eight radio stations. Best known of his group is his Fort Smith (Ark.) Southwest Times. His Oklahoma newspapers include […]