Hall of Fame

2011

  • Gwin Johnston, founder of JohnstonWells Public Relations
  • Bruce Goldberg, DPC president and associate editor at the Denver Business Journal
  • Ned High, broadcasting and PR veteran
  • Jean Otto, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News
  • *Leonard “Buzz” Larsen, The Denver Post
  • *Polly Pry, (Leonel Ross Campbell Anthony O'Bryan), The Denver Post

2010

  • Mike McPhee, reporter, The Denver Post
  • Cynthia Hessin, reporter and anchor, Rocky Mountain PBS
  • Neil Westergaard, editor, Denver Business Journal
  • *Bill Daniels, cable pioneer
  • *Greg Pearson, journalism professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver
  • *William Byers, founder of the Rocky Mountain News.

2009

  • Dick Kreck, columnist, The Denver Post
  • Marilyn Robinson, reporter, The Denver Post
  • Paula Woodward, investigative reporter, 9News KUSA TV
  • *Harry Rhoads, photographer, Rocky Mountain News
  • *Red Fenwick, “Ridin’ the Range” reporter, The Denver Post

2008

  • Dick Woodbury, Denver correspondent for Time Magazine, reporter for The Denver Post.
  • Joan White, reporter and editor for The Denver Post
  • Denny Dressman, sports editor and vice president of human resources for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • Gil Spencer, editor of The Denver Post, New York Daily News and Philadelphia Daily News.
  • Jack Foster,* editor, the Rocky Mountain News.

2007

  • Patricia Calhoun, co-founder, publisher and editor of Westword.
  • John Ensslin, reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • George Lane, reporter for The Denver Post.
  • Jack Kisling,* reporter and columnist for The Denver Post.
  • Helen Bonfils,* publisher of The Denver Post

2006

  • Cle Cervi Symons, editor of Cervi’s Journal and past Denver Woman’s Press Club president.
  • Joe Fuentes, reporter for Rocky Mountain News and public relations professional.
  • Peter Blake, reporter and political columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.
  • Starr Yelland,* anchor and broadcast pioneer for KMGH-Channel 7.

2005

  • Bill Peery, photographer for the Rocky Mountain News.
  • William Kostka Jr., public relations pioneer.
  • Lou Kilzer, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.
  • Carl Akers,* pioneer broadcaster with KUSA-Channel 9.

2004

  • Dan Gibson, artist for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • Roger Ogden, general manager, KUSA-Channel 9.
  • Ed Stein, editorial cartoonist for the Rocky Mountain News.
  • Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post.
  • Greg Lopez,* columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.

2003

  • Fred Brown, legislative reporter and political columnist for The Denver Post, past DPC president.
  • Virginia Culver, reporter for The Denver Post, one of the first two female DPC members.
  • Sue O’Brien, * editorial writer for The Denver Post.
  • Jim Conrad,* commercial artist and sculptor.

2002

  • Ed Sardella, anchor, KUSA-Channel 9
  • Tom Pade, photojournalist for KMGH-Channel 7, past DPC president
  • Joe McGowan Jr.,  Associated Press bureau chief in Denver, Boston and longtime foreign correspondent.
  • Ralph Moore, * sportswriter for The Denver Post.

2001

  • Jean Tool, commercial artist, caricaturist, former Colorado GOP chairman.
  • Paul Conrad, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post.
  • Thomas Hornsby Ferril ,* Colorado Poet Laureate, publicist for Great Western Sugar Company.
  • Edwin Palmer Hoyt,* editor, The Denver Post

2000

  • Hal Heffron, editor for the Rocky Mountain News, former DPC president.
  • Ivan Rosenberg, longtime editor of the Southwest Denver Herald Dispatch
  • Zeke Scher, legal affairs reporter for The Denver Post
  • Lee Casey,* columnist for the Rocky Mountain News

1999

  • Dusty Saunders, broadcast critic for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • Isabelle Holmes, editorial writer for The Denver Post
  • Sam Lusky,* city editor for the Rocky Mountain News, public relations pioneer.

1998

  • Tom Gavin, editor at the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.
  • Francis Melrose, columnist for the Rocky Mountain News
  • Don Kinney, television news anchor, host of “State of Colorado,” past DPC president
  • Dick Connor,* sportswriter for The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News.

1997

  • Gene Amole, Rocky Mountain News columnist, KVOD owner
  • Harry Farrar, Denver Post sports columnist
  • Gene Cervi,* founder of Cervi’s Journal, precursor to The Denver Business Journal.

1996

  • Reynelda Muse, anchor, KCNC-Channel 4
  • Bill Hosokawa, editor, The Denver Post, author of Thunder in the Rockies
  • Bob Palmer, anchor, KCNC-Channel 4, former DPC president
  • Gene Fowler,* The Denver Post reporter, author of Timberline, biographer of John Barrymore.

* Inducted posthumously

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