The 2018 Touchstone Awards were held in October at The Toledo Club, with keynote speaker Phil Mattingly, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent, and Toledo native. Check out the photo gallery to see what a good time we had!
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In October, the Press Club of Toledo was proud to announce the winners of the Touchstone Awards. The awards were presented at the 20th Touchstone Award Ceremony, held at The Toledo Club.
As always, it was an inspiring night to be part of the Toledo media. Toledo native and CNN Congressional Correspondent Phil Mattingly gave a great keynote address about his career and his experiences covering the 2016 campaign.
The Press Club was also proud to bestow honors for service to the community as well as for professional excellence in journalism. Honorary awards were selected by the Press Club of Toledo. Journalism and media awards were selected by a committee of representatives of the Press Club of St. Louis.
The Press Club of Toledo congratulates all the winners, along with thanking Dana, The Blade, and Communica, who were the corporate sponsors of Touchstone.
Lifetime Award
Jon Hendricks
Mike Gibbons
Contributor Award
George Kral
Golden Touchstone
Sharon Lange
Print Non-Daily
Athena Cocoves, Adams Street Publishing
Print Daily
Nolan Rosenkrans, The Blade
Television
Tim Miller, WTOL
Radio
Brad Creswell, WGTE
Digital
The Blade, NewsSlide
Student Print
Stepha Poulin
Scholarship Winners
Stepha Poulin, BGSU
Anthony Garcia, UT
All Nominees
Justin Billau
13abc
Timothy Miller
Hannah Finnerty
Stepha Poulin
Brianna Scebbi
Meredith Siegel
Brad Cresswell
Haley Taylor
The Blade
Nolan Rosenkrans
Michael Pierce
Athena Cocoves
Kelly Thompson
Sean Nestor
Erin Holden
Sam Koros
Kimberly Feldkamp
Erin Marsh
Lauren Lindstrom
Allison Dunn
Taylor Freyer
Tommie Gallagher
Ryan Dunn
The Press Club of Toledo is thrilled to announce that Phil Mattingly, a Toledo native and Congressional Correspondent for CNN, will provide the keynote for the 20th Touchstone Awards Ceremony to be held at The Toledo Club on October 25, with cocktails at 5:30 p.m. and the program starting at 7:15 p.m. Please join award-winning local media professionals and business leaders as we celebrate excellence in local journalism and community service.
Tickets
$75 Non-members
$65 Press Club Members
$45 Students
$450 Table of Six
Please RSVP by Monday, October 21
To RSVP
Please e mail the following information to: info@toledopressclub.com or pressclub@bex.net
Name(s) of attendees
Organization (if applicable)
Address
Phone number
E mail address
To purchase tickets:
Checks may be made payable to Press Club of Toledo and sent to PO Box 2469, Toledo, OH 43606.
We also accept Master Card and Visa. Please provide card number, name, phone number, zip code,
expiration date and 3 digit security number.
You may charge tickets online at: https://squareup.com/store/press-club-of-toledo
Questions? Call Shaun Hegarty at 419.265.9138 or contact Kathy Jex, Executive Director
at 419-350-0523 or pressclub@bex.net
The best in journalism and contributions to our community will be honored at the 19th annual Press Club of Toledo Touchstone Awards.
Please join us on Thursday, October 19 at The Toledo Club (235 14th St.). Cocktails and grazing will begin at 5:30pm, before the 7:15pm program.
Our featured speaker for the 2017 Touchstones will be Rob Powers, WEWS-TV News Anchor in Cleveland.
Categories for 2017 mark the best in print, broadcast and electronic communication.
Plus, it’s a great chance to recognize some of the shining stars in this community.
The Excellence in Journalism categories:
Print (Daily)
Print (Non-Daily)
Print (Student)
Broadcast (Television)
Broadcast (Radio)
Broadcast (Student TV/Radio)
Digital Media (Blogs, websites, podcasts, etc.)
Golden Touchstone (Lifetime Achievement in Journalism)
The Excellence in Service Categories:
Touchstone Contributor Award
Touchstone Lifetime Award
Ticket Prices:
$75 Non-member
$65 Press Club member
$45 Student
$450 Table of 6
To charge tickets online, visit squareup.com/store/press-club-of-toledo
For more details, please email info@toledopressclub.com or call Shaun Hegarty at 419-265-9138.
The Press Club of Toledo is putting out the call to find the best in Journalism and Community service in the area. Below you’ll find the nomination categories for the 2017 Touchstone Awards.
To submit a nomination, please download our PDF form:
2017 Touchstone Awards Call for Nominations
Nominations are due Monday, September 18.
Touchstone Contributor Award
Touchstone Lifetime Award
For Excellence in Journalism entries please provide a brief description of the entry and what went into its production. Feel free to add any pertinent information you’d like the judges to know about your work.
****All entries may be submitted in a digital format (youtube, soundcloud, etc.)
Print (Daily)
Print (Non-Daily)
Print (Student)
Broadcast (Television)
Broadcast (Radio)
Broadcast (Student TV/Radio)
Digital Media (Blogs, websites, podcasts, etc.)
Golden Touchstone (Lifetime achievement in Journalism)
The Contributor Award is presented to a person or organization that’s a significant impact on the community over the past year. The award can be presented to leaders in the corporate, labor, education, human services or the general public at large.
****Please provide a written entry of the work the nominee performs, examples of how the nominee has many of the quality of life better in our region, honors or recognition the nominees has received and why you believe this nominee’s work is of the highest quality.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a person demonstrating a long term commitment to people, areas of study or industry in our region. People who have brought positive impact, recognition and/or spotlight to the region.
****Please provide a written entry of qualities that deem this nominee worthy of a lifetime award. List achievements, awards, breadth of work and contributions to the community and/or field of journalism.
The featured speaker for the 2016 Touchstone Awards on Oct. 27 will be Connie Schultz, a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate, and Professional in Residence at Kent State University.
In 2005, she won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for columns that judges praised for providing “a voice for the underdog and the underprivileged.” Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, Parade, the Atlantic, ESPN Magazine and Democracy Journal.
Also in 20015, Schultz won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Commentary and the National Headliner Award for Commentary. In 2003, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for her series, “The Burden of Innocence,” which chronicled the ordeal of Michael Green, who was imprisoned for 13 years for a rape he did not commit. The week after her series ran, the real rapist turned himself in after reading her stories. The series won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Social Justice Reporting, the National Headliner Award’s Best of Show and journalism awards from Harvard and Columbia universities.
In 2004, Schultz won the Batten Medal, which honors “a body of journalistic work that reflects compassion, courage, humanity and a deep concern for the underdog.”
Schultz is also a fellow with the Vietnam Reporting Project. Her 2011 series, “Unfinished Business,” explored the long-term impact of Agent Orange in the U.S., and in Vietnam. Recently, the series won the Associated Press Managing Editors Journalism Excellence Award in International Prospective. She has received six honorary degrees, and for the last two years has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.
Schultz is the author of two books published by Random House: “Life Happens—And Other Unavoidable Truths,” a collection of essays, and “…and His Lovely Wife,” a memoir about her husband Sherrod Brown’s successful 2006 race for the U.S. Senate. She is currently working on her first novel.
Schultz and her husband have four grown children and five grandchildren. They live in Cleveland, Ohio with their rescue dog, Franklin.