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Video bio of Al Hobbs, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018;
After attending high school in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside Muhammad Ali, Al Hobbs moved in 1960 to Indianapolis with the intentions of continuing his education at Butler University. However, due to lack of tuition money, Hobbs instead got a job at a local grocery store. It was from here that he made his way into radio and the rest is history. Hobbs spent more than 20 years at WTLC-FM where he became popular from hosting a gospel music program. Right as he was beginning to retire from radio, he founded the Aleho gospel recording label and issued dozens of albums within a decade. Hobbs was also responsible for founding the Indiana Black Expo’s StarQuest talent search.
--Information from the Indianapolis Star
Video bio of Bernie Eagan, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018;
This Beech Grove, Indiana, native was born blind, but he didn’t let that stop him from pursuing a love of music and entertainment. After graduating from the Indiana School for the Blind in 1975, Bernie Eagan went on to Ball State University where he graduated with a degree in Radio and Television Communications. He then accepted a position as a programming consultant at WWHC-FM (now WMXQ-FM) and was hired part-time at WERK-AM. Eagan began working at Emmis Communications’s WENS-FM in Indianapolis, becoming music director and assistant program director while hosting afternoon drive from 1984 to 2002 and a Friday night retro show 1999-2002. Eagan later hosted mornings and afternoons on WXYB-FM, Indianapolis.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
We asked five questions (and a little more) to Indiana University professor and poet-in-residence Adrian Matejka. The award-winning poet is author of The Devil’s Garden, Mixology, and The Big Smoke—a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His upcoming collection of poems, Map to the Stars, will be released in March 2017.
Journalism is innate in Craig Klugman, longtime editor of the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Journal Gazette.
“In my life, about the only thing that came easily to me was newspaper journalism,” he said of his career.
Born in 1945 in Fargo, North Dakota, well before the middle-of-nowhere town had any weight to its name, Klugman graduated from IU in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and political science.
He was hired as a copy editor at the Chicago Sun-Times after graduation, and later went on to serve as telegraph editor, news editor, city editor and assistant managing editor for features.
He left the Sun-Times for Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he taught as an assistant professor from 1978-79. He went on to serve as director of undergraduate studies from 1979-82.
After leaving Medill in 1982, Klugman returned to the state of his alma mater, where he would dedicate the next decades of his life not only to local communities, but to the benefit of Indiana journalism as a whole. He stepped onto the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette as editor in 1982, where he worked for 33 years before his retirement from the paper in late 2015. Under his leadership, the paper won numerous state and national awards, which include the Hoosier State Press Association’s Blue Ribbon Newspaper of the Year award.
Journal Gazette publisher Julie Inskeep once wrote that Klugman has remained dedicated through his career to embracing the growth of media, and even to following its growth into uncharted territory.
In 1998, Klugman helped produce and distribute a revolutionary seven-newspaper investigative series on abuses of Indiana’s public access laws. The series, called “The State of Secrecy,” ran simultaneously in all seven of the participating papers and ultimately resulted in the creation of the Indiana Public Access Counselor’s Office.
The format has since been used by newspapers in more than 20 states.
Klugman serves on the IU Publications Board, which selects editors for IU student media publications. He chaired the Freedom of Information, International and Content committees for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and even served a year as the editor of the society’s magazine.
In 2001, he joined other distinguished journalists and public officials for “Getting it Right,” a Franklin College symposium on accuracy in the media. In 2004, he was awarded the Hoosier Intellectual Freedom Award from the Indiana Library Federation for challenging censorship throughout his career.
He also received a Distinguished Service Award from the Hoosier State Press Association, which recognized his work on more than 20 years of service with HSPA committees. Those included the Newsroom Seminar and Freedom of Information committees.
He was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009.
Throughout his career, Klugman has remained dedicated not only to contributing to his field, but also to bettering it. His work on freedom of the press and freedom of information advocacy exemplifies his career-long affinity for journalism and his will to advance it for all.
“So what have newspapers meant to me?” he asked. “My life, probably.”
Diana Hadley has dedicated her career to educating and advocating for new generations of journalists.
After earning a bachelor’s degree from Purdue in 1971, Hadley took a job at Mooresville High School, where she taught English, speech and journalism for more than 30 years. Despite having no journalism experience, she was assigned to advise the school’s newspaper and teach a journalism course. Incidentally, that was perhaps the single most significant assignment of her life.
“It was the best thing I did, and it was a happy accident,” she said.
Through teaching and advising, she developed an admiration for journalism, which inspired her to pursue a master’s degree in journalism from Indiana University. It took eight years to complete. Although it was challenging to continue to teach, advise publications and earn a master’s degree, dean Richard Gray and advisor Mary Benedict scheduled classes after 4 p.m. and during the summer, allowing Hadley to attend. The rich experience forged a loyalty to IU and the High School Journalism Institute she maintained for the rest of her career.
Hadley spent 10 years advising Mooresville’s television news outlet, 23 advising the school’s yearbook staff and all 33 advising its newspaper staff.
Hadley established the school’s television news outlet when the school received a gift of free broadcast equipment. She developed a broadcast class in which students produced the morning and afternoon announcements. She came to school at 6:30 a.m. every day to supervise her students.
In 1986, Hadley received the Indiana High School Press Association’s Ella Sengenberger Adviser of the Year award. In 1996, she was named Distinguished Adviser of the Year by the Dow Jones News Fund. In 2000, she was a finalist for the Indiana Department of Education’s Teacher of the Year award.
In 2004, after retiring from Mooresville, Hadley began a part-time job at Franklin College as assistant director of IHSPA and part-time instructor in Franklin’s journalism school. She eventually became director of IHSPA and served in that role for 13 years.
Though she didn’t directly advise a high school newspaper or yearbook staff, Hadley continued to dedicate herself to improving the field of high school journalism. She corresponded with high school journalism advisors seeking advice and trekked across Indiana to assist teachers and advisors as they struggled through administrative hassles, freedom of press issues and any other problem that might plague a high school newspaper.
Hadley also started a First Amendment Day at the Statehouse each March — giving up to 400 high school students the opportunity to observe the legislative process — and coordinated the evaluation of hundreds of newspapers and yearbooks to create an annual statewide awards program. She also taught at IU’s High School Journalism Institute for more than 30 summers.
Hadley retired from IHSPA in 2017.
Hadley has received honors and recognition from the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, the Indiana State Teachers Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Indiana Department of Education, the Independent Colleges of Indiana and the Woman’s Press Club of Indiana/National Federation of Press Women. In 2017, she received a Sagamore of the Wabash.
Ed Spray’s legacy in the world of television includes dozens of industry awards, the programming of five CBS television stations and the creation of three cable networks. It culminates in his tenure as president of Scripps Networks, home of HGTV and the Food Network. But it begins in IU’s Radio-Television Building.
Spray left his hometown of Seymour, Indiana, to major in radio and television with a minor in journalism at IU. He served as president of Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Society, vice president of his fraternity Kappa Delta Rho and member of the IU Student Foundation. He also earned spare change by shooting film of campus activities for Indianapolis TV stations. Upon graduating in 1963, he married Donna Cornwell, a fellow IU student pursuing a bachelor’s and master’s degree in elementary education.
As he worked toward his master’s degree in communications at IU, Spray served as a part-time producer/director for IU Radio and Television Services. He graduated in 1969 and landed his first job as a film editor at WISH-TV Indianapolis, eventually moving on to WMAQ-TV Chicago, an NBC-owned television station. There, Spray gradually rose to producer/director and won five Chicago Emmy Awards during his next nine years of work.
Spray left WMAQ but stayed in Chicago, taking a job as director of broadcasting at CBS-owned station WBBM-TV. There, he led one of the most prolific and celebrated programming operations in commercial television, earning nearly all of the industry’s most iconic and coveted awards, including two national Emmys, two Peabodys, several DuPont Columbia Awards, Edward R. Murrow documentary awards and more than 75 local Emmys.
In 1986, Spray transferred to Los Angeles CBS-owned station KCBS, where he served as station manager. He was eventually promoted to a CBS corporate vice president position, which put him in charge of developing national programming for the CBS Television Stations group.
Spray left Los Angeles six years later, in 1992, opting to transition to higher education full-time. He taught as an associate professor at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications.
In 1994, he was hired by the E.W. Scripps Company to launch a home and garden cable television network, better known now as HGTV. He co-founded the network and was initially responsible for producing, scheduling and promoting HGTV content. Two years later, the company acquired the Food Network and assigned Spray to lead the relaunch of the network with the new highly successful format it uses today. In 1999, the company started its third network — DIY — and established Scripps Networks, naming Spray president. In his time as president, the company launched a fourth network — now called the Cooking Channel, launched HGTV Canada and acquired two more existing cable networks.
Spray retired in 2005 and was named a distinguished professor of journalism and communications at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he taught for four years. He was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2012, the Chicago Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored him with membership in the Chicago Silver Circle, an award that recognized his outstanding contributions to Chicago television.
