November 6, 2007

Contact:
Larry Jackson,
TNF President, 979-968-3155

Texas Newspaper Foundation selects 4 to be inducted into Hall of Fame

AUSTIN ― The Texas Newspaper Foundation is proud to announce Walter Buckel, Amon G. Carter, Alvin Holley and Harold Hudson as the 2008 inductees in the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame.

 

The induction ceremony will take place on Jan. 18, 2008, at the Texas Press Association’s 61^st annual midwinter conference in Dallas.

 

In 2006, the Austin-based Texas Newspaper Foundation created its own hall of fame to induct up to four exemplary men and women of the newspaper business each year. The first four, Roy Eaton, Alfred H. Belo, James Roberts and Staley McBrayer, were inducted in January 2007.

 

Like Eaton, Belo, Roberts and McBrayer, the next class of inductees’ clearly outstanding achievements and contributions to the newspaper industry and to their communities were noted by a selection committee that met Nov. 1 and picked the four individuals from a field of 37 nominees.

 

Serving as committee members were: Bill Berger, publisher of the Hondo Anvil Herald; Sarah L. Greene, publisher of the Gilmer Mirror; Roy Robinson, publisher of Graham Newspapers Inc.; Judy Johnson of Winnie, immediate past chair of the Texas Press Association board of directors; and Marshall Day, chair of the Texas Press Association board of directors and publisher of the Gatesville Messenger.

 

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