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Efforts Underway for 10th Legends of North Texas Journalism Awards

DALLAS – March 26, 2022 – The Press Club of Dallas has begun preliminary work to bring back the Legends of North Texas Journalism, the industry’s prestigious lifetime excellence award. Thanks to financial support from the Dallas Press Club Foundation, a committee of pastLegends will consider new inductees. A Fall ceremony is being planned. The last Legends event was held on May 18, 2019.

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2022 Student Scholarship Application Is Now Open Until March 1st

The scholarship application for the Press Club of Dallas Foundation Scholarship is now open! Students may login to the website and apply now through March 1^st! READ MORE

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Legend Mike Cochran Has Died

Mike Cochran with JoAnn Holt Caussey at the 2017 Legends of North Texas Journalism Awards.

DALLAS (AP) — Mike Cochran, who during a nearly 40-year career with The Associated Press told the stories of Texas’ larger-than-life characters with his rich and detailed writing, and who ended up serving as a pallbearer for Lee Harvey Oswald while covering the presidential assassin’s funeral, has died. He was 85.

Cochran died late Tuesday night after a long battle with cancer, said longtime friend and former AP executive John O. Lumpkin. READ MORE

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Networking Happy Hour

December 8th, 2021 – state & allen, Dallas

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Thank you to those who contributed this year. We more than tripled our previous record amount.

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Dotty Griffith – 2013 Legend

Dotty Griffith, trailblazing Texas food journalist, Daily Texan Hall of Fame honoree, cookbook author and longtime restaurant critic at The Dallas Morning News, died Sept. 13 of pancreatic cancer at home in Dallas, surrounded by family. She was 71. READ MORE

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Hugh Aynesworth, Rena Pederson, Ralph Langer

Ralph Langer, 2012 Legend of North Texas Journalism and Club President (1984-85) Has Passed Away. Read More

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Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Brandon Borick, Caroline Brown, Lexi Quilty, Vanesa Trejo

2021 Student Scholarship Recipients

DALLAS, TX – June 17, 2021 – The Press Club of Dallas Foundation Scholarship Fund has awarded four college scholarships to Dallas area students for the upcoming, academic 2021-22, school year. The Fund is administered by Communities Foundation of Texas.

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Ron Chapman