{"id":2342,"date":"2017-04-08T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralohiospj.org\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:22:52","slug":"68th-founders-day-celebrating-central-ohios-best-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralohiospj.org\/index.php\/68th-founders-day-celebrating-central-ohios-best-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"68th Founders’ Day: Celebrating Central Ohio’s best journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cappa, Lease, Revish and Yost honored; $7,500 in scholarships awarded<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The Central Ohio Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalist celebrated\u00a0its 68th<\/sup> Founders’ Day banquet\u00a0Thursday evening, April 6, awarding $7,500 in scholarships, issuing chapter awards to recognize\u00a0outstanding local journalism and installing new officers and board of directors members.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event, held at the Amelita Mirolo Barn in Upper Arlington, recognizes the founding of the chapter in 1949. Today,\u00a0membership includes about 75 members working in all phases of journalism. Close to 60 people attended the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Paul Kostyu, a journalism professor at Ohio Wesleyan University and longtime Ohio journalist, addressed the meeting, discussing his actions during the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport in January. On that day, Kostyu sprang into action to feed national news outlets with briefs and photos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter Awards granted<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

First Amendment Award<\/strong>: Ohio Auditor Dave Yost for conducting more than 4,000 performance audits and other special audits of public entities annually.<\/span><\/p>\n

Distinguished Service Award<\/strong>: Doug Buchanan, managing editor of Columbus Business First, where he has worked for 19 years, for his service to the chapter as the outgoing president.<\/span><\/p>\n

Appreciation Awards<\/strong>: (1) Dominic Cappa, retiring editor in chief of Columbus Business First, after a 19-year career at the helm of the daily business journal. (2) Carol Ann Lease, retired city editor of The Columbus Dispatch<\/i>, after a distinguished career leading local news coverage for the city\u2019s metropolitan daily newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brick Wall Awards:<\/strong> (1) The Ohio State University, for its lack of transparency in public records, as reported by The Columbus Dispatch<\/i>. An OSU spokesman maintains that the Dispatch\u2019s<\/i> reporting on its performance with public records \u201ccontained multiple falsehoods\u201d and that the Brick Wall Award \u201cendorses inaccurate reporting.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>(2)<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Genoa Township, each received a brick for their lack of attendance at public hearings on federal health-care legislation. Representatives for both Portman and Tiberi strongly objected to the suggestion that they were not accessible to their constituents, pointing to many events they had hosted and attended, both in person and by phone, where concerned citizens could express their concerns about health care. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lifetime Achievement Award:<\/strong> Jerry Revish, news anchor for WBNS-TV, received the chapter\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award for more than four decades of central Ohio journalism in\u00a0<\/span>radio and television. Revish joined the team of WBNS-TV in 1980, where his reporting skills have taken him around the world.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Among his reporting honors: 11 Emmy awards, two Edward R. Murrow awards and the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n

Student Scholarships awarded<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Each year at Founders Day, the Central Ohio Pro Chapter awards four scholarships to promising journalism students. This year alone, $7,500 in scholarships were awarded. The chapter has awarded scholarships worth more than $70,000 to nearly 80 journalism students since the program began.<\/span><\/p>\n