Daily Times editor Stone named to Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame
From Staff and Wire Reports
H. Dean Stone, longtime editor at The Daily Times, is one
of six journalists named as the first inductees into the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame at Middle
Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
Stone, a University of Oklahoma
journalism graduate, began his full-time journalism career in 1949 as Sunday editor at The Daily
Times, becoming managing editor that same year. He was named editor in 1978, a position he has held
since that time.
He has served multiple terms as president of Tennessee
Associated Press Managing Editors, now known as Tennessee Associated Press Media
Editors.
Other inductees include:
• John
Seigenthaler, chairman emeritus of The Tennessean, foundign editorial director of USA Today, and
founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University;
• Chris
Clark, a retired chief news anchor of WTVF in Nashville who played a strategic role in convincing
the Tennessee Supreme Court to allow cameras in courtrooms;
• Anne Holt, 30-year veteran,
three-time Emmy Award winner and news anchor at WKRN in Nashville;
•
William Bryant “Bill” Williams Jr., publisher emeritus of The Paris
Post-Intelligencer;
• and Dan Miller, deceased, a longtime news anchor at
WSMV in Nashville who won multiple Emmy Awards.
Officially unveiled in
October 2012 after four years of planning, the new Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame will be housed
at MTSU’s John Bragg Mass Communication Building and covers all categories of professional news
media including television, newspaper, radio, public relations and electronic media, according to
The Murfreesboro Post.
“Our inductee committee has performed yeoman’s work
in selecting outstanding journalists from throughout West, Middle and East Tennessee,” said Hooper
Penuel, a retired lieutenant colonel and public information officer for the Tennessee National Guard
and a founding member on the Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors.
The
inaugural induction ceremony is scheduled for 3 p.m. April 26 at the MTSU College of
Mass
Communication’s annual awards event honoring outstanding journalism students
and educators.
