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Alumni Melissa Farlow, BA’74, and Paul Tash, BA’76, are among the six new members of the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame who will be inducted into the organization this spring.

A Paoli native, Farlow is an award-winning photojournalist for National Geographic and several newspapers. At the (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal, her work chronicling riots over court-ordered school desegregation helped the newspaper win the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. She later worked for the Pittsburgh Press before joining National Geographic, for which she has gone on assignments around the globe. She has also been an instructor with the Missouri Photo Workshop for more than 25 years.
 
Paul Tash, a South Bend native, has been editor, CEO and chairman of the Tampa Bay Times, and chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Poynter Institute. Tash joined what was then the St. Petersburg Times in 1978 and worked in several reporting and editing roles before rising to its top ranks. Under his leadership, the Times has become Florida’s largest newspaper and won several Pulitzer Prizes. One of those was awarded in 2009 to the newspaper’s PolitiFact.com initiative for fact-checking the statements and promises of politicians. That was the first time a primarily online effort was so honored.

Other inductees include:

• The late Joe Aaron, a longtime reporter and columnist for the Evansville Courier;
• The late Jerry Lyst, who was The Indianapolis Star’s editorial page editor for nearly half his 45 years with the newspaper;
• The late Lowell Mellett, an Elwood native who was a newspaper executive in Washington before becoming a top aide to President Franklin Roosevelt; and
• Jack Ronald, the longtime publisher of Portland’s Commercial Review who has made numerous trips to former Soviet republics to advocate an independent and free press.

 
The induction ceremony is April 27 at the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University, Bloomington, where the hall of fame is housed. It was established by the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 1966 to recognize and honor Hoosier journalists who have significantly contributed to the profession. 
 

More:

• Visit the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame website to read bios of members and learn more about the ceremony, which is open to the public. Tickets are required.

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