Last night’s Pressing Issues was a huge success. More than two dozen members of the local media were on hand to hear from Van Applegate of Fox5 TV in Washington and Jim Provance of The Blade as they described their experiences on the front lines of the unrest in our country over the past year. Increasingly, it is becoming impossible for journalists to avoid being part of the story. We thank them both for telling the story of a year that we hope will be unlike any other.
The Press Club held a virtual cocktail event with Toledo Spirits. Dan Phillips, the head bartender at Toledo Spirits, taught Press Club members and guests how to make three cocktails…as well as the history behind Toledo Spirits and their distilling methods.
Well, it wasn’t the event we expected to have at the beginning of the year, but we put the 2020 Touchstone Awards into the books nonetheless.
Thank you to the 82 people who attended our virtual event. We appreciate your support so much.
Also, we thank our generous sponsors who supported the event. Because of their support in these unusual times, we were able to increase the scholarships to $1,000. We were happy to give the good news at the event to Kennedy Ellison of the University of Toledo and Shayne Nissen of Bowling Green State University.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Bob Savage, Sr.
Golden Touchstone
Dick Berry
Mary Alice Powell
Contributor Award
Dr. Romules Durant
Wendi Huntley
Print Daily Hard News
Blade Corona Virus Coverage
Print Daily Feature
Precious Fondren, The Blade
Print Daily Sports
Dave Briggs, The Blade
Print Non-Daily Hard News
The Press Newspaper
Print Non-Daily Feature
Jason Webber: Dooley Noted, Toledo City Paper
Photojournalism Videography
Todd Gaertner, WTVG
Photojournalism Print
Kurt Steiss, The Blade
Television Hard News
Brian Duggar, WTOL
Television Feature
Alexandra Kruger BCAN
Television Sports
Claire Dau, BCSN
Radio, Single Report
Brad Creswell WGTE
Radio Show/Series
Brad Creswell WGTE
Podcast
Haley Taylor, WGTE
Social Media
In the Loop WTOL
Digital Media
WTOL Instagram
Student Television
Chase Bachman
Student Print
Riley Runnels
Public Relations Campaign
Thread Marketing Group
The 2020 Touchstone Awards!
A Toledo Press Club Virtual Event
October 21, 7:00 PM (RSVP pressclub@bex.net for login instructions), free for members and non-members alike.
The Touchstone Awards are the highlight of our year at The Press Club of Toledo. It’s our chance to honor people who make a difference in this community, whether that’s in the field of community service or in journalism and communications.
We can’t meet in person this year, but we have taken our event virtual. We’ll be honoring our lifetime and community winners and announcing our winners in the journalism and communication fields, as judged by the Press Club of Salt Lake City.
We hope you will join us. As we did with Pressing Issues, please RSVP to the address above and we’ll get you login instructions. Feel free to share this with anyone…thanks to our generous sponsors above, the event is free and open to all.
The Board of Directors for the Press Club of Toledo announced today that the Touchstone Awards will be held online. We’re very disappointed not to be seeing all of you in person as we do every year in October. However, as the event approached, we couldn’t see how we would be comfortable holding an event of this kind in less than 8 weeks.
Thank you everyone for the wonderful Pressing Issues Virtual Town Hall which was held last night. It was a huge success. Over the course of the night, more than 70 people were online and they represented all elements of our community.
What they heard was insightful and inspiring. Our panelists provided a rich description of the challenges they face, including–but not limited to–the under-representation of minorities across the newsroom. The Press Club of Toledo thanks them for their time and their willingness to share their wisdom and experience.
We have received great feedback for people who were in attendance. This is a good example of what the Press Club exists to do. Together, we can elevate our profession and our community.
We will be in touch soon with information on our next pressing issues. In the meantime, if you’d like to help us provide more programming like this, please consider joining the Press Club of Toledo. The cost for a new membership is only $30.
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