Nine veteran Cincinnati sports journalists from print and broadcast media have been chosen for the 2024 class of the Greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame. They will be inducted at a gala at Great American Ball Park’s Bally Sports Club.

The ceremony is being held in conjunction with the 2024 Excellence In Journalism contest awards. Both programs are sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ.)

Read more about the inaugural inductees below!

Greater Cincinnati SPJ Journalism Hall of Fame 2024 Induction Dinner

Monday, Sept. 16
5:30 – 10 p.m.

Great American Ball Park
100 Joe Nuxhall Way

Tickets for the dinner and programs are $75.

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  • A man wearing a dark gray suit with a subtle plaid pattern, a white shirt, and a gray pocket square, smiling. The image is cropped to show his face and part of his suit, with a background that includes a red and beige wall.

    Kevin Barnett

    WKRC-TV Executive Sports Producer

    If you met Kevin Barnett as he was growing up in St. Bernard, you knew he would find a career in sports.

    A self-proclaimed statistics nerd, he devoured box scores of games and collected baseball cards to check out the numbers.

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    Ken Broo

    WKRC-TV, WLWT-TV & WCPO-TV sports anchor/reporter

    Ken Broo has been up and down the dial of radio and television stations in Cincinnati and across the country for nearly 50 years. But, no matter where he landed, the lure of the Queen City always brought him back to the shores of the Ohio River.

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    Paul Daugherty

    Cincinnati Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer sports columnist and author

    From the time he was sports editor of his high school newspaper in Bethesda, Maryland, Paul Daugherty knew he what he wanted to do with his life. He was a sports fan who loved to write, so he combined the two.

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    John Fay

    The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati Reds beat writer (honored posthumously)

    For six decades, Fay’s byline appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer, and he earned a reputation for his ability to cover anything well. “The curse of versatility,” one colleague called it.

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    Dennis Janson

    WKRC-TV & WCPO-TV sports anchor

    Denny Janson’s broadcasting career started humbly in 1965 when the Elder High School sophomore was hired to answer the WSAI-AM Radio request line. It was immediately clear this Price Hill native would quickly rise through the ranks.

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    Wayne Box Miller

    WLW Bengals Radio Network Pregame/Halftime/Postgame host, sports marketer, WDBZ Sports Director, ,and DEI Director at St. Xavier High School

    You might need a super-computer to keep track of everything Wayne Box Miller has done in radio and television, journalism, sports marketing and education.

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    John Popovich

    WCPO-TV Sports Director

    The broadcasting bug bit John Popovich as a student at Struthers High School near Youngstown. He worked for the school’s radio station, WKTL (Key To Life), then followed his brothers and sisters to Ohio University in Athens.

    His ambition was to combine radio, television and sports into a career.

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    Betsy Ross

    Cincinnati’s first female sports reporter at WCPO plus work at WLWT-TV, WXIX-TV, ESPN & Game Day Communications Founder

    Some people might hesitate at volunteering for something new and untested, but not Betsy Ross.

    She’s set a high standard for women in both broadcasting and business.

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    George Vogel

    WLWT-TV sports anchor/reporter

    When George Vogel graduated from Georgetown, Ohio, High School in 1975, he wasn’t sure what career he wanted to pursue.

    He enrolled at Southern State Community College for two years while driving a truck making freight deliveries for a Georgetown company

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