Inducted 2015
After working at the White House reporting on President Andrew Johnson (and now being credited as the first White House correspondent), Joseph McCullagh then reported on the Senate for the Associated Press. Using all that experience from the trenches, “Little Mack,” as he became known, landed in St. Louis, taking the job as editor of The Democrat, followed by the same position at the Daily Globe, and then at the merged Globe-Democrat for the last 21 years of his life. McCullagh is credited as being the first journalist to use interviews to obtain quotes to develop his stories, and many academics refer to him as one of the greatest newspaper editors ever.
