|
Three
journalists – Mary Kay Cabot, Rick Jackson and Jim O’Bryan – are the
newest members of the Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame class of 2022 was inducted on Nov. 16 during a lunch
program at the City Club of Cleveland.
In
addition, Monica Robins was honored as the 2022 recipient of the Chuck
Heaton Award, a prestigious honor presented by the Press Club to the
print, radio, online or television journalist who best exemplifies the
sensitivity and humility exhibited by Chuck Heaton during his 50-year
career as a sportswriter at The Plain Dealer.
Cabot is a sportswriter, Browns beat reporter and podcast host for The Plain Dealer/cleveland.com, as well as a radio/TV Browns analyst and a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jackson
is a host and anchor for Ideastream Public Media. He has been a radio
and TV reporter/anchor and is a member of the Ohio Broadcasting Hall of
Fame.
O’Bryan is founder of The Lakewood Observer, an award-winning photographer and designer and an entrepreneur.
Robins,
the award-winning senior health correspondent at WKYC TV 3, is also a
community activist, a volunteer and singer/musician.
Press
Club President Denise Polverine Manoloff, publisher of Cleveland
Magazine, presented the Hall of Fame plaques. Each inductee delivered
emotional remarks about how honored they were to be included as members
of the Hall of Fame. Click herefor more on the Hall of Fame/Heaton Award event.
The
Heaton Award was presented by John Betchkal, a longtime member of the
Press Club Board of Directors, and a friend of the late Chuck Heaton.
Betchkal launched the award in 2008, the year Heaton died at age 90. He
recalled Heaton’s humility and his willingness to help others as well as
his journalistic talent. Heaton was inducted into the Press Club
Journalism Hall of Fame in 1992.
Previous
Heaton Award recipients are Terry Pluto, 2008; John Telich, 2009;
Margaret Bernstein, 2010; Herb Thomas, 2011; Jack Marschall, 2012; Jim
McIntyre, 2013; Wayne Dawson, 2014; Betsy Kling, 2015; Danita Harris,
2016; Tom Moore, 2017; Leon Bibb, 2018; and Mark “Munch” Bishop, 2019.
A
Special Recognition Award was presented to the family of the late
Michael Heaton, Chuck Heaton’s son. Michael Heaton, a longtime
journalist, most recently was a Plain Dealer columnist and “minister of
culture” for the PD. He died on Sept. 18 at age 66.
A
graduate Kent State University, Michael Heaton wrote for the San
Francisco Examiner and People magazine before returning to Northeast
Ohio in 1987 to join his father at The Plain Dealer. In addition to his
column, Michael Heaton reviewed concerts, movies and TV and books, wrote
in-depth profiles for the Sunday Magazine, published two books and
co-authored several others.
Actress Patricia Heaton, Chuck’s daughter and Michael’s sister, recorded a short video that was played during the program.
The
Hall of Fame/Heaton Award program, which previously was a dinner event,
paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. It resumed this
year as a lunch program.
Suggest
candidates for the Hall of Fame or Heaton Award by submitting an email
with the nominee’s name, contact information and a brief explanation of
why he or she merits consideration. Send nominations to presssclubcle@gmail.comand ckovach@dioceseofcleveland.org.
|