Denver Press Club Hall of Fame

The Denver Press Club Hall of Fame honors journalists and communicators who have given tremendous service to the Club or had a distinguished career in Colorado journalism. The Club inducts a handful of members into the Hall of Fame each fall.

2019

Sam Adams

Former sportswriter at the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News

John Sunderland

Former director of photography for The Denver Post

Tina Griego

Managing editor at the Colorado Independent, former columnist for the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News

Mike Landess

Former television anchor at KUSA-TV, KDVR-TV and KMGH-TV

Bob Martin

Posthumous award, former play-by-play announcer for the Denver Broncos on KOA NewsRadio

2018

Jerry Bell

Managing editor of KOA NewsRadio

Greg Moore

Former editor of The Denver Post

Janet Reeves

Former director of photography at the Rocky Mountain News

Anne Trujillo

KMGH-TV News Anchor

John Temple

Former editor of the Rocky Mountain News

Lowell Thomas

Posthumous award; preeminent radio broadcaster and journalist.

2017

Adele Arakawa

Former KUSA-TV news anchor

Dean Singleton

Former publisher and owner of The Denver Post

Irv Moss

Sports writer who worked at The Denver Post for 60 years

Greg Dobbs

Former ABC News correspondent and Denver Post columnist

Craig F. Walker

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer at The Denver Post

Frances Foster

Posthumous award; columnist for the Rocky Mountain News, wrote Mrs. Molly Mayfield, a forerunner of advice columns.

2016

Floyd Ciruli

Longtime Colorado public policy researcher and pollster.

Patti Dennis

Vice President of KUSA-TV and director of recruiting for TEGNA Media

Carl Miller

Capitol bureau reporter, columnist, capitol bureau chief and editorial page editor for The Denver Post.

Dave Krieger

Spent 30 years as a sports columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera, Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post

Mary Chase

Posthumous award, late author of Harvey

2015

Lynn Bartels

Police reporter for the Rocky Mountain News

Mary Voelz Chandler

Arts critic & architecture reporter, Rocky Mountain News

Rich Clarkson

The Denver Post, National Geographic and Clarkson Creative

Mike Keefe

Denver Post cartoonist; won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, 2011.

Damon Runyon

Posthumous award, former Denver Press Club member and creator of Guys & Dolls

2014

Vincent Carroll

Longtime editorial page editor for the Rocky Mountain News until 2009; editorial page editor, The Denver Post, 2009-2016

Al Nakkula

Police reporter for the Rocky Mountain News. The Press Club's award for police reporting is named for him.

Peggy Lowe

Longtime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post; part of the Post team that won the Pulitzer for coverage of the Columbine High School massacre.

Mark Stutz

This is not a picture of Mark Stutz; it's coming. Longtime public relations and media relations guru, Xcel Energy.

Robert Threlkeld

Washington, D.C. reporter for the Rocky Mountain News during Watergate; also reported for The Denver Post.

2013

Eugene Field

Editor, Denver Tribune, 1881-83; poet who wrote "Wynken, Blynken & Nod" and "Little Boy Blue" and once impersonated playwright Oscar Wilde (at left in photo).

Gary Gerhardt

Environment and local news reporter, Rocky Mountain News; covered the assassination of Alan Berg.

Michael Balfe Howard

Editor, Rocky Mountain News

Pocky Marranzino Sr.

Rocky Mountain News

Garrett Ray

Littleton Independent

Joseph S. Sinisi

The Denver Post

2012

Frederick G. Bonfils

The Denver Post

John Dunning

Author and journalist

Kevin Flynn

Rocky Mountain News

Carl Hilliard

Associated Press

Bertha Lynn

KMGH TV

Harry H. Tammen

The Denver Post

REMOVED: Father Woody (C.B. Woodrich)

Archdiocese of Denver – Removed: Woodrich, the longtime editor of Denver's archdiocesan newspaper and a highly visible regional spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Church, was credibly accused of child sex abuse through multiple claims substantiated by Colorado Attorney General Special Master Bob Troyer on Dec. 1, 2020. On Dec. 15, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Denver Press Club voted unanimously to remove Woodrich from the Hall of Fame. His name, and this information, remains here for the historical record.

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2011

Bruce Goldberg

DPC president and associate editor at the Denver Business Journal

Ned High

Broadcasting and public relations veteran

Gwin Johnston

Founder of JohnstonWells Public Relations

Leonard “Buzz” Larsen

The Denver Post

Jean Otto

Formerly of the Rocky Mountain News

Polly Pry

(Leonel Ross Campbell Anthony O'Bryan), The Denver Post

2010

William Byers

Founder of the Rocky Mountain News

Bill Daniels

Cable pioneer

Cynthia Hessin

Reporter and anchor for Rocky Mountain PBS

Mike McPhee

Reporter for The Denver Post

Greg Pearson

Journalism professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver

Neil Westergaard

Editor for the Denver Business Journal

2009

Red Fenwick

"Ridin' the Range" reporter for The Denver Post

Dick Kreck

Columnist for The Denver Post

Harry Rhoads

Photographer for the Rocky Mountain News

Marilyn Robinson

Reporter for The Denver Post

Paula Woodward

Investigative reporter for 9News KUSA TV

2008

Denny Dressman

Sports editor and vice president of human resources for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president

Jack Foster

Editor for the Rocky Mountain News

Gil Spencer

Editor of The Denver Post, New York Daily News and Philadelphia Daily News

Joan White

Reporter and editor for the Denver Post

Dick Woodbury

Denver correspondent for Time, reporter for the Denver Post

2007

Helen Bonfils

Publisher of The Denver Post

Patricia Calhoun

Co-founder, publisher and editor of Westword

John Ensslin

Reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president

Jack Kisling

Reporter and columnist for The Denver Post

George Lane

Reporter for The Denver Post

2006

Peter Blake

Reporter and political columnist for the Rocky Mountain News

Joe Fuentes

Reporter for the Rocky Mountain News and public relations professional

Cle Cervi Symons

Editor of Cervi's Journal and former Denver Woman's Press Club president