SPJ Names Three New Fellows

By: E&P Staff The Society of Professional Journalists announced Friday that Austin Kiplinger, the late Stanley E. Hubbard, and the late Nelson Poynter had been named Fellows of the Society for extraordinary contributions to the journalism profession.

Kiplinger, 90, is the chairman of Kiplinger Washington Editors, founded by his father, W.M. Kiplinger. After starting The Kiplinger Magazine -- now known as Kiplinger's Personal Finance -- in 1946, he served as a political commentator for ABC and NBC in Chicago before returning to Kiplinger's Personal Finance in 1961, where he served as editor in chief.

Hubbard, who died in 1992 at age 95, was the founder of Hubbard Broadcasting, who launched his first radio station, WAMD in Minneapolis, in 1923. He founded KSTP St. Paul/Minneapolis five years later. In 1938 Hubbard bought the first television camera RCA ever sold, and began closed-circuit television productions. KSTP-TV eventually became the nation's first NBC TV affiliate and the nation's first all-color TV station.

Poynter, who died in 1978, began writing stories at the age of 10 for his father's St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. He became general manager of the paper in 1938, and majority stockholder in the paper in 1947. Poynter became president of The Times Publishing Co. in 1953, on his father?s death, and chairman of the board in 1969, a post he held until his death. In 1948, he and his wife Henrietta founded the noted legislative news service, Congressional Quarterly.

Poynter also founded the Modern Media Institute in 1975 to help train journalists and newsroom leaders from around the country and the world. It was renamed the Poynter Institute after his death.

The new Fellows will be officially recognized at the President?s Installation Banquet Aug. 29 at the 2009 SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference in Indianapolis.