The MDDC Hall of Fame, established in 1947, honors outstanding newspaper professionals whose careers were marked by excellence at news media organizations in Maryland, Delaware or the District of Columbia. Members of the Hall date back to the 19th century and hail from rural weekly papers, metro-area dailies and everything in between.
The Hall is located in the College of Journalism Building at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland College Park. Election to the Hall is a distinctive honor, and to be nominated a person must be or have been long-employed at a news media organization that either is a member or eligible to be a member of the Association.
In the Spring of 2021, MDDC convened a Hall of Fame committee to examine the Hall of Fame and make recommendations to the Board to make the Hall more inclusive and to recognize the contributions to journalism and the business of journalism by underrepresented communities. Read the MDDC Board of Directors’ resolution.
Nominations are accepted year-round, though must be received by January 30 for consideration for that year’s Hall of Fame class. Nominations received before January 30 are considered by the Executive Committee, and the honorees are voted on by the full Board. See below for the full listing of the Hall of Fame members.
Year Inducted | Name | Title | Affiliation |
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2018 | Deborah Cornely | Editor & Publisher | The Dundalk Eagle |
2018 | Rick Cullen | Editor | The Daily Times |
2016 | Ed Waters, Jr. | Reporter & Photographer | Frederick News-Post |
2015 | Lee A. McCardell; Christmas Letter 1944 | Reporter & Editor | The Baltimore Sun |
2015 | Carl J. Murphy | Publisher | The AFRO-American Newspapers |
2014 | Mary J. Corey | Senior Vice President & Director of Content | Baltimore Sun Media Group |
2014 | Denise Riley | Editor Emeritus | The Star Democrat |
2014 | Brice Stump | Journalist & Photographer | The Daily Times |
2013 | James S. Keat; 2016 Obituary | Editor | Baltimore Sun |
2013 | Tom Marquardt | Publisher | Annapolis Capital & MD Gazette |
2013 | Carol Melamed | VP, Government Affairs | The Washington Post |
2012 | Bruce Hotchkiss | Editor | Delmarva Farmer |
2012 | Lou Panos 2013 obituary | Reporter | Baltimore Sun |
2011 | William H. Kerbin | Editor | Worcester County Times |
2011 | Nicholas Horrock | Journalist | Washington Examiner / Baltimore Sun |
2011 | W. Curtis Riddle | Publisher | News Journal |
2010 | Mike Mahr | Director of Advertising | Washington Times |
2010 | Jean F. Moon | Managing Editor | Patuxent Publishing |
2010 | Ralph Moyed | Reporter | News Journal |
2010 | Zeke Orlinsky | Publisher | Patuxent Publishing |
2009 | Bill Burton | Editor | Baltimore Evening Sun/Bay Weekly |
2009 | Jim Flood, Sr. | Publisher | Dover Post |
2009 | Dan Tabler | Columnist | Queen Anne’s Record Observer |
2009 | Sid Yudain | Publisher | Roll Call |
2008 | Harry C. Black | Publisher | Baltimore Sun |
2008 | Herb Block | Editorial Cartoonist | The Washington Post |
2008 | Philip Merrill | Publisher | Annapolis Capital & MD Gazette |
2008 | John Henry Murphy Sr. 2010 Obituary | Editor/Publisher | The AFRO-American Newspapers |
2008 | Moses Newson | Managing Editor | The AFRO-American Newspapers |
2008 | Shirley Povich | Columnist | The Washington Post |
2008 | George E. Randall | Publisher | The Frederick News-Post |
2008 | Robert B. Sincell Sr. | Publisher | The Republican |
2008 | John Steadman | Reporter/Writer | Baltimore News-American/Sun |
2007 | Tom Bradlee | Publisher | Chesapeake Publishing |
2006 | Edwin Warfield III; Obituaries | Publisher | The Daily Record Company |
2005 | Meg Greenfield 1999 obituary | Editorial Page Editor | The Washington Post |
2004 | James M. Schurz 2009 obituary | Publisher | Herald-Mail |
2003 | Edward D. Casey 2008 obituary | Editor | Annapolis Capital & MD Gazette |
2002 | J. Suter Kegg 2002 obituary | Editor | Cumberland Times-News |
2001 | Katharine Graham 2021 obituary | Publisher | The Washington Post |
2000 | Roger B. Farquhar 2005 obituary | Editor | Montgomery County Sentinel |
1999 | Joseph R.L. Sterne 2021 obituary | Editorial Page Editor | Baltimore Sun |
1998 | W. Wright Robinson 2003 obituary | Columnist | Leader & State Register |
1997 | Benjamin Bradlee 2014 obituary | Editor | The Washington Post |
1995 | Jon Franklin 1995 obituary | Writer | Baltimore Sun |
1994 | Sam Lacy 2003 obituary | Reporter | The AFRO-American Newspapers |
1993 | George B. Delaplaine Jr. | Publisher | Frederick News-Post |
1992 | E. Ralph Hostetter 2019 obituary | Publisher | Delmarva Farmer |
1991 | Frank Woodfield | Copy Editor | Baltimore Sun |
1990 | Bernard J. (Jack) Smyth | Editor/Publisher | Delaware State News |
1990 | William Penn Frank 1989 obituary | Columnist | Wilmington News Journal |
1988 | Gerald W. Johnson 1980 obituary | Op-Ed Writer/Columnist | The New Republic |
1986 | Gertrude Poe, 2017 obituary | Editor/Publisher | Laurel Leader |
1985 | Arunah S. Abell | Publisher | Baltimore Sun papers |
1985 | Louis Azrael 1981 obituary | Columnist | Baltimore News-American |
1984 | A. Aubrey Bodine 2005 obituary | Photographer | Baltimore Sun papers |
1984 | Anne Catherine Hoof Green | Publisher | Maryland Gazette |
1984 | Williams Parks | Publisher | Maryland Gazette |
1974 | Charles Neill Baylor | Editor | Hagerstown Herald & Daily Mail |
1974 | Elmer M. (Jay) Jackson III 1972 obituary | Editor | Anne Arundel Times |
1974 | Henry Louis ‘H.L.’ Mencken | Columnist | Baltimore Sun papers |
1974 | B.C.F. (Joe) Mulieri | Editor | Anne Arundel Star |
1974 | John D. Worthington Jr. | Publisher | The Aegis |
1955 | Andrew Banks Jr. | Editor | Baltimore News-Post |
1954 | Dr. Edward Clarke *Removed from Hall of Fame, 2021 | Editor/Publisher | Worcester Democrat |
1954 | Robert E. Delaplaine | Publisher | Frederick News-Post |
1953 | Michael William Aker | Editor | Queenstown News |
1953 | William Malone Baskerville | Editor/Publisher | Baltimore News-Post |
1953 | William Wakefield Duke | Publisher/Judge | Calvert Journal |
1952 | Aloysius Fenwick King | Editor | St. Mary’s Beacon |
1952 | Paul Chenery Patterson 1952 obituary | Publisher | Baltimore Sun papers |
1952 | Paul Stromberg | Publisher | Stromberg Publications |
1947 | Benjamin H. Sincell 1947 obituary | Editor/Publisher | The Republican |