The Greater
Cincinnati Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) will
induct three veteran journalists as new members of the Greater Cincinnati
Journalism Hall of Fame (HOF) on September 30, 2025. The ceremony will be held
in conjunction with the chapter’s annual Excellence In Journalism (EIJ) Awards.
Those awards recognize outstanding work done by written and broadcast
communication professionals plus college/university and high school students in
Greater Cincinnati during 2024.
The 2025 Greater Cincinnati SPJ Journalism Hall of Fame Inductees Are:
The late Pat Crowley, who worked 27 years as a newspaper, magazine, internet and television journalist – most of it with The Cincinnati Enquirer in the Northern Kentucky and Frankfort bureaus – before co-founding the Northern Kentucky public relations, public affairs and marketing firm, Strategic Advisers, with Jay Fossett.
Courtis Fuller, whose highly honored Hall of Fame broadcasting career has spanned 45 years – 35 of them as an anchor and reporter for WLWT-TV plus hosting the station’s Let’s Talk Cincy show. He also ran for Cincinnati Mayor in 2001, earning a respectable 45 percent of the vote in the general election.
Tom McKee, who worked for 40 years in front of and behind the camera for WCPO-TV as a reporter, producer, assignment manager and multi-media journalist, before retiring to teach broadcast news in the Media Production Department within the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) at the University of Cincinnati.
The induction ceremony will be held at WVXU-FM, 2117 Dana Avenue, in Cincinnati’s Evanston neighborhood. There’s a reception from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. followed by the Excellence In Journalism (EIJ) awards and Hall of Fame induction at 7:00 p.m. The cost is $35 per person. Reservations can be made via Eventbrite. The link is: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spj-greater-cincinnati-pro-chapter-awards-hof-induction-ceremony-2025-tickets-1572145673029?aff=oddtdtcreator
A total of 214 entries were received for the EIJ contest with judging done by SPJ members from the Northwest SPJ Pro Chapters in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Attached is a link to the list of the 131 finalists as chosen by the judges. https://cincyspj.blogspot.com/2025/08/greater-cincinnati-spj-pro-chapter.html A total of 69 of the finalists will be named winners during the September 30th event.
