Representing excellence in newspaper, television and radio news, six veteran journalists were inducted into the second class of the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame before a capacity crowd Tuesday afternoon at Murfreesboro’s Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center. The inductions were held during the 60th annual conference of the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters, which sponsored the ceremony along with the Associated Press. The Hall of Fame is an independent partner with MTSU’s College of Mass Communication, which houses the hall in its Center for Innovation in Media inside the Bragg Mass Communication Building on the MTSU campus.

The 2014 honorees were: Joe Birch, longtime co-anchor, WMC-TV Action News 5, Memphis; Bob Johnson, retired co-anchor of WTVC-TV News, Chattanooga; Alex S. Jones, Pulitzer Prize winner, The New York Times; Luther Masingill, WDEF Radio/TV, Chattanooga; Otis Sanford, longtime former reporter, editor, columnist, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis; and Sam Venable, columnist, Knoxville News Sentinel.

Read more at http://www.mtsunews.com/tn-journalism-hall-of-fame-2014-induction/.