The Media School Distinguished Alumni Award honors former students who have become leaders in media after majoring in journalism, radio/TV, telecommunications, film and related fields through the school or its predecessors.
Those who took significant coursework in The Media School or its predecessors are also eligible, along with alumni who served prominent roles for IU student media.
2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards
6-9 p.m., Nov. 15
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall
601 E. Kirkwood Ave.
IU Bloomington
RSVP by Nov. 8
BA'87
Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
MME'73, PhD'92
Strategic communications executive and diversity coach
BA'04
TV sports director and anchor, retired
BA'89
Television writer, producer and creator
BA'64
Writer and editor
BA'91
Director, ESPN
BA'92
Reporter and columnist, The Indianapolis Star (posthumous)
We are accepting nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards until Feb. 15, 2025.
Rafat Ali, MA’01
Douglas Freeland, BA'80
Nancy Callaway Fyffe, BA'72
Bob Jenkins, BS'69
Jay Kincaid, BA'82
Pegie Stark, BFA'75, MA'81, PHD'85
Renee Ferguson, BA'71
Michael J. Hayes, BA’88
Brian H. Horton, ’72
Marcia Parker, BA’76
Vernon A. Williams, BA’73
Monroe Anderson, BA'71
Stephanie L Becker, BA'82
Dee J. (Michaelis) Hall, BA'82
Monte Hayes, BA'66
Stephen G. Lucas, BA'80
Jim Bright, BA'74
Paul J. Caine, BA'86
Edna F. Einsiedel, PhD'75
Tracy Dodds, BA'74
Marilyn Schultz, BS'67, MA'90, PhD'93
Craig W. Van Sickle, BA'79
Diana Hadley, MA'80
Richard Horwitz, BA'63, MS'64
Craig Klugman, BA'67
John Rappaport '62
Ed Spray, BS'63, MA'69
Sage Steele, BS'95
Harold de Bock, PhD’74
Gary Donatelli, BA’74
Sandra Eisert, BA’73
Kathleen Johnston, BA’82
Bryan Moss, BA’66
Diane Shah, BA’67
Kenneth A. Beckley, BA’62
Bonnie J. Brownlee, BA’72, MA’75
Eric Deggans, BA’90
Andy Hall, BA’82
Bob Shanks, BS’54
John Ahlhauser, MA’73, PhD’78
Joseph Angotti, BS’61, MA’65
Taik Sup Auh, MA’73, PhD’77
Del Brinkman, MA’63, PhD’71
Myrna Oliver, BA’64
Robert E. Thompson, BA’49
Sharon Dunwoody, BA’69, PhD’78
David C. Krane, BAJ’94
Everett G. Martin, BA’49
Raju Narisetti, MA’91
Tim Nickens, BA’82
Martha Moutoux Steffens, BA’78
Mark Ferree, ’26, LHD’77
Bill Foley, ’77, BA’07
David B. Richardson, BA’40
Miriam Meloy Sturgeon, BA’38, MA’40
Nancy Weaver Teichert, BA’76
Dan K. Thomasson, BA’60
E. Ross Bartley, ’16
Frank Bourgholtzer, BA’40
Melissa Farlow, BA’74
Earleen Fisher, BA’68
Timothy A. Franklin, BS’83
George N. Gill, BA’57, LHD’94
Gerould W. Kern, BA’71
Paul V. McNutt, BA’13
David H. Weaver, BA’68, MA’69
Samuel F. Yette, MA’59
Florence Myrick Ahl, BA 1899
Marjorie (Smith) Blewett, BA’48
Kent Cooper, LHD’41
I. Wilmer Counts, MS’54, EdD’67
Madelyn Pugh Davis, BA’42
Michel du Cille, BA’85
Thomas French, BA’81
John W. Hill, LHD’71
Don Mellett, ’14
Gene Miller, BA'50, LLD'77
James Polk, BA'64
Nelson Poynter, BA'24, LLD'76
Ernie Pyle, LHD'44
John E. Stempel, BA'23
Paul Tash, BA'76
Contact Becca Bogenschutz, associate director of advancement.
