SPJ Cleveland Pro Awards
The Cleveland Chapter honors journalists with the Distinguished Service Award, which is the highest honor the Chapter can bestow for service. Journalists are nominated by the Board. In exceptional cases, the Board may choose a journalist to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award – the highest honor SPJ Cleveland can bestow upon a professional to recognize a career of accomplishments.
Past winners
Note: x-denotes Lifetime Achievement Award
2021: Harry Boomer (x), Monica Robins, Betty Clapp
2021: Carrie Buchanan (x), Cliff Anthony
2020: Ken Robinson (x), Jan Leach
2019: Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild, Local 1
2017: Leo Jeffres, Rachel Dissell
2016: Paul Hoynes
2015: Debora Lee
2014: Connie Schultz, Stan Bullard
2013: Tom Beres, Tom Moore
2012: Brian Tucker, Tony Kozlowski
2011: Brent Larkin, Jae-won Lee
2010: Jim Collins
2009: Dick Hendrickson
2008: Wendy Hoke, David Marburger
2007: Doug Clifton (x), Jerry Masek (x)
2006: No DSAs Made
2005: No DSAs Made
2004: No DSAs Made
2003: Elizabeth Sullivan, Paul Tepley, John Cole (x)
2002: Roldo Bartimole, Dan Coughlin
2001: John Bowen, Peter Miller
2000: Ted Henry, Jerry Masek
1999: Dick Zunt, Neil Zurcher
1998: Mary Strassmeyer (x)
1997: Joe Mosbrook, Paul Young, Sal Marino (x)
1996: Bob Tayek, Russ Schneider
1995: Doris O’Donnell, Darrell Holland, Don Robertson (x)
1994: Marc Gleisser, Nev Chandler
1993: Del Donahoo, Lou Mio
1992: Hugh Danaceau, Ron Kuntz
1991: Leon Bibb, William F. Miller, Mike Roberts, Thomas Vail (x)
1990: Betty Cope, Dick Feagler, Chuck Heaton
1989: Norman Mlachak, Dick Murway, William O. Walker
1987-88: Virgil Dominic, Dick Goddard, Jane Scott
1986: Peter Bellamy, Bill Barrett, Marge Alge
1985: Russell Faist, Harry Volk, Dave Talbott
1984: Theodore Andrica, Dick Peters, Fred Griffith
1983: Ray Osrin, Don Peters, Neal Van Ellis
1982: Doug Adair, Tom Boardman, Charlie Day
1981: Bob August, Hal Lebovitz
1980: George Condon, Dick McLaughlin
1979: John Huth, Dorothy Fuldheim
1978: Lewis Edwards, Julian Krawcheck
1977: David Rimmel, Marie Daerr Boehringer
1976: Milt Widder, Howard Preston
1975: Edward Kuekes, Bob Seltzer
1974: Fred Bottomer, Dudley Brumbach
1973: James Doyle, Philip Porter
1972: David Dietz, Richard Maher
Ohio SPJ contest
The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati chapters of the Society for Professional Journalists are jointly accepting entries for the Ohio SPJ Awards competition for work published in 2015.
Eligible journalists must work for newspaper, magazine, radio, television, trade, online or college media in Ohio and adjacent states that have significant reach into Ohio. Freelance journalists with residence in Ohio are eligible, regardless of where their work is published.
SPJ — Cleveland Pro Chapter 