Tom McKee and Courtis Fuller — who combined have nearly 80 years of reporting Cincinnati news on television — and the late Patrick Crowley, who worked 17 years as a journalist before opening his public relations firm, will be added to the Greater Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists’ Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame Sept. 30.
It’s a particularly fitting tribute to McKee, who retired last year from organizing the annual Hall of Fame inductions and the chapter’s annual Excellence In Journalism Awards. The Journalism Hall of Fame was started in 1990 with an inaugural class including WCPO-TV news anchor Al Schottelkotte and Hall of Fame baseball announcer Red Barber.
“It’s very humbling when you consider the names on that list — Al Schottelkotte and (Cincinnati Post publisher and former Scripps CEO) Bill Burleigh — who put journalism on the map,” he said.
“There are many more people more deserving. I wasn’t the best reporter but I tried to work the hardest to be the best, and not make any mistakes on the air.”…