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Dan Martin – 2019

Dan Martin was one of the small fraternity of artists responsible for the Weatherbird daily feature in the Post-Dispatch. He began that job in 1986. Dan’s additional duties included authoring the weekly “Postcards from Mound City” cartoon, and other illustration and editing assignments. A member of the National Cartoonists’ Society, Dan’s historic expertise is evident in the many speeches he gives, the books he has authored, and his work as a charter member of the board of directors of the St. Louis Media History Foundation.

Arthur Donnelly – 2019

Arthur Donnelly, having worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and an ad salesman for the Globe-Democrat, was the co-founder of what would become known as the Suburban Journals newspaper group in St. Louis. It began with the purchase of the Cherokee News in 1933 and the Wellston Local in 1935. By the time the co-owners, Donnelly and Frank Bick, sold the chain in the mid-1980s there were 33 separate papers in Missouri and Illinois with a combined free circulation of over 800,000 households.

Don Corrigan – 2019

Don Corrigan worked simultaneously as a full-time journalism professor at Webster University and editor for weekly papers at Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc., a situation that gave his students the benefit of learning from a full-time working journalist. He reported from several foreign locations and as an editorial board member for the St. Louis Journalism Review. He was honored with the Gannett Foundation Award for environmental journalism and the College Media Advisers’ Lifetime Distinguished College Newspaper Adviser honor.

Jeannette Cooperman – 2019

Jeannette Batz Cooperman’s byline has been seen in many publications over the span of her career. She spent ten years as an investigative reporter for The Riverfront Times and fifteen years at St. Louis Magazine, holds a doctorate in American studies, and has written five books. Her work has also appeared in national magazines, the Post-Dispatch, and Barnes Hospital and Saint Louis University publications, and she currently writes three pieces a week for Washington University’s journal of the essay, The Common Reader.

Cooperman’s efforts have been recognized with many awards, including the City & Regional Magazine Association’s national Writer of the Year award and, four times, the Great Plains Journalism Writer of the Year award.

Dwight Bitikofer – 2019

Dwight Bitikofer was the founder, with two other college students, of the Webster Times in 1978, beginning a company that would soon publish three weekly community newspapers. As the group’s publisher, Bitikofer did everything from proofreading to newspaper distribution, including writing a regular publisher’s column. Those articles won awards from the Missouri Press Association and the Independent Free Papers of America. He was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kirkwood Chamber of Commerce and was named Webster Groves Citizen of the Year.

Wiley Price III – 2018

Wiley Price III was often the only press photographer to show up at crime scenes or news events, and the awards he received for that work attest to its value and quality. Long associated with the St. Louis American, Price also shot for the Suburban Journals, Associated Press and numerous publications as a free-lancer. His community involvement helped earn him recognition as one of the NAACP’s “100 Most Inspiring St. Louisans” in 2009, and he could often be found in local grade and high schools serving as a guest lecturer. The Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists honored him in 2018 as a living legend for his years of service to the local African-American Community.