The William Paterson College of the Arts and Communication and the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists announce that William Paterson University will become the home of the New Jersey Journalism Hall of Fame.
The inaugural induction will take place during the William Paterson chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Awards Ceremony. The ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Hobart Hall, which houses the William Paterson University Communication Department.
The first class to be inducted into the New Jersey Journalism Hall of Fame includes:
The inductees were nominated by a panel of former New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists presidents and approved by the N.J. Society of Professional Journalists board.
The emcees for the evening will be Miriam Ascarelli, vice president of NJSPJ, and Dr. Nicholas Hirshon, a journalism professor at WPU and the founder and adviser for the William Paterson student chapter Society of Professional Journalists, also known as WPSPJ.
“New Jersey has a rich legacy of great journalism,” said NJSPJ president John Ensslin, a multimedia journalist and former SPJ national president. “With our Hall of Fame at William Paterson University, we hope to honor those journalists who got their start here and went on to great careers elsewhere or those who made their mark in the Garden State.”
“I’m honored that our university will become the home for the New Jersey Journalism Hall of Fame,” said Hirshon, “This cements William Paterson’s status as a premiere journalism program in the metropolitan area.”
The WPSPJ Awards Ceremony will start with soft drinks and light appetizers in the lobby of Hobart Hall.
The program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Martini Room. WPSPJ will honor three journalists as Friends of WPSPJ for their contributions to the chapter over the past year. The inaugural Friends of WPSPJ include Ensslin, who taught a podcast workshop on the WPU campus; Denis Gorman, a freelance sports reporter who arranged for WPU journalism students to shadow him from the press box at a New Jersey Devils game; and Ruth Ross, a theater critic who invited the students to shadow her as she reviewed a stage performance in West Orange.
The ceremony will include the unveiling of a plaque with the names of the New Jersey Journalism Hall of Fame inductees. The plaque will be displayed year-round in Hobart Hall.
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