Category: PCD News
11-16-1941 – 11-25-2022David was born in Dallas to Howard Dunnigan and Thelma (Stem) Dunnigan. He graduated from Sunset High School in 1959 and the University of North Texas in January 1964 with a BA in Journalism. David began his career as a staff reporter for the Galveston Daily News until he was drafted into the […]
Legends of North Texas: Scott McCartney, Karen Blumenthal John Lumpkin – “It was a night to celebrate journalism – which seems ever more important these days.” So began an email from Scott McCartney, former AP national reporter and retired Wall Street Journal correspondent and columnist, about the induction of him and his late wife Karen Blumenthal into the Legends of North […]
Paul Wahlstrom – I would like to thank the following who helped make the 10th Legends of North Texas Journalism a success: Paula Aynesworth (sponsorships), Janet St. James (biographies, script finalizing), Greg Ruuska (Dallas College/North Lake, video presentation and recording), Ashton Campbell (the Texas Theatre). PHOTOS – JOHN “DOC” STRANGE – SELIG POLYSCOPE
Bestselling biographer Jane Wolfe will be in discussion with Jerome Weeks about her new book Burl at Interbang Books on Thursday, September 8th at 6:00 PM. The riveting biography of Burl Osborne, former chairman of The Associated Press and publisher of The Dallas Morning News, who waged and won one of the last great newspaper wars in […]
Eight North Texas journalists will be recognized with the industry’s prestigious lifetime excellence award, the Legends of North Texas Journalism, from the Press Club of Dallas. The 9th annual “Legends” reception and awards ceremony will be held at the historic Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, 411 Elm St., on Saturday, May 18 from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. The […]
DALLAS, Dec. 3, 2018 – The Press Club of Dallas honored 17 winners and an additional 10 finalists from throughout Texas Dec. 1 at the 2018 Hugh Aynesworth Awards for Texas Journalism. The dinner and awards presentation was held at the Irving Convention Center. It was hosted by longtime WFAA TV investigative reporter […]
Dallas, TX, Oct. 31, 2108 – The Press Club of Dallas has selected 27 finalists in 16 categories for the second annual Hugh Aynesworth Awards for Texas Journalism. The competition was open to Texas reporters, columnists, editors, photographers and videographers from throughout the state of Texas for work done in calendar year 2017. “We increased […]
Larry E. Howell, a former associate editor of the editorial page of The Dallas Morning News, died peacefully July 7, 2018, at age 80. Mr. Howell’s award-winning editorials and columns were written for The News during the late 1960s. Mr. Howell studied journalism at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri, and received his B.A. degree […]
[fusion_text]DALLAS, TX – June 13, 2018 – The Press Club of Dallas Board of Directors announced plans to expand the Second Annual Hugh Aynesworth Awards for Excellence in Journalism at its monthly board meeting in May. The Aynesworth awards are named for veteran reporter and long-time Press Club member Hugh Aynesworth, a four-time Pulitzer Prize […]
[fusion_text]Phyllis Gene Radovich Dishman Vaughan passed peacefully on March 17, 2018 at the age of 91. Born in Hereford, Texas on August 5, 1926, she grew up during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. She attended Texas State College for Women (now TWU) and received her degree in journalism in 1947. While there, she […]
Carolyn Dunnigan, who became a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News in 1965 and received one of the first early Headliner awards from the Press Club of Dallas, passed away Monday at the age of 75. After an internship at the Arkansas Democrat, Dunnigan joined The News in 1965 as a copy editor for […]
