James Brown Among 2009 Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame Inductees

James Brown, executive associate dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism at IUPUI

The Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame will induct five new members during a ceremony Saturday, April 18, 2009, at Walden Inn in Greencastle, Indiana.

Created in 1966 by the Indiana professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and housed at DePauw University, the Hall of Fame recognizes thosewith significant Indiana ties who have demonstrated they are journalists of the highest distinction.

Those being inducted in April are:

James Brown, executive associate dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism at IUPUI since 1982, a pioneer in computer-assisted journalism and accomplished photographer. He formed the National Institute for Advanced Reporting and in the 1990s organized conferences that introduced many journalists to the use of databases in their reporting. His expertise helped IUPUI's  journalism students become multimedia savvy years before those at other schools.

Janet Flanner, an Indianapolis native who was the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1975. She was a member of the expatriate community that included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. Her journalism included stories on Pablo Picasso, Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight and Hitler's rise to power. Flanner's writing style in her “Letter from Paris” feature became a signature of The New Yorker. She died in 1978.

Craig Klugman, editor of The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne since 1982. While heading one of the state's most prominent and award-winning newspapers, Klugman has led many Freedom of Information efforts. He helped coordinate a statewide public records audit involving seven newspapers across Indiana that has since been emulated in more than 20 states. That project helped lead to creation of the Indiana public access counselor's office.

Jane Pauley, an Indianapolis native and Indiana University graduate who spent nearly three decades as a news anchor and host on NBC. Pauley began her career in 1972 as a reporter and anchor at Indianapolis station WISH. She then spent a year as a news anchor in Chicago before she started her 13-year tenure as co-host of NBC's “Today” show in 1976. She later spent 12 years as a host of “Dateline NBC,” and was the winner of multiple Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She left NBC in 2003.

Ernest Wilkinson, who was an editor and reporter at The Indianapolis Star for 35 years. A native of Terre Haute, Wilkinson graduated from Indiana State University and worked at newspapers in Terre Haute, Rochester and Brazil before joining The Star in 1956. He spent 20 years as The Star's state editor, handling thousands of stories from reporters, tipsters and other sources from outside the immediate Indianapolis area. He then was the paper's farm writer for more than a decade before retiring in 1991. He continues writing projects from his home in Lafayette.

The Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 18, 2009, at the Walden Inn in Greencastle.

For additional information or for tickets, contact Larry Taylor at (317) 371-7471, or e-mail injournalismhof@gmail.com.

For additional information about the Hall of Fame and its previous inductees, visit the organization’s Web site at www.depauw.edu/library/archives/ijhof/index.html .