2010 N.C. Halls of Fame Inductions

Rick Brewer, Dot Jackson, Ray Shaw (posthumous) and Larry Stogner were inducted into the N.C. Halls of Fame in Journalism and Public Relations during an April 11 ceremony in Chapel Hill. Frank Andrews and Wendy Bounds received Next Generation Leadership Awards.

The N.C. Halls of Fame honor individuals who have made outstanding, career-long contributions to their fields. Honorees must be native North Carolinians, or must have made a significant contribution to the state. The Next Generation Leadership Award is given by the N.C. Halls of Fame to recognize individuals who represent the next generation of leadership in their fields.

N.C. Halls of Fame Inductees

• Brewer, a 1971 alumnus of the school, retired as Carolina’s associate athletic director in 2000 after 25 years in the athletic department. He won the 1999 Arch Ward Award, given for lifetime achievement in college sports information by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

• Jackson was a columnist and investigative reporter for the Charlotte Observer from 1967 to 1982. She was nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize, named the National Conservation Writer of the Year, and received an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship. She also founded the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife, a center that offers programs and workshops for artists and writers.

• Shaw ran Charlotte-based American City Business Journals for 20 years and worked for nearly 30 years with Dow Jones & Co., rising from reporter to president of the company. He wrote the first national story about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. He oversaw coverage of President Lyndon B. Johnson's family businesses that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for national reporting.
• Stogner, ABC11's Eyewitness News anchor, has served viewers in the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville television market for 38 years. He began his broadcast career as an anchor at UNC-TV. Stogner has earned multiple Emmy nominations for reporting on subjects including former Governor Jim Hunt’s first international trip to recruit foreign companies to expand into North Carolina, and the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

Next Generation Leadership Award Winners

• Andrews is the president and CEO of August Jackson, an experiential communications agency he founded in Washington, D.C. In 2009, he founded AJ Venture Brand to provide brand identity services for venture-backed companies. Andrews is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization and serves on the board of UNC's College of Arts and Sciences Foundation. He is the former vice president and general manager at Jack Morton Worldwide and a former account executive at Hill & Knowlton Asia Pacific.

• Bounds is an author, Wall Street Journal columnist and on-air contributor to Good Morning America and CNBC. She writes, blogs and creates video content about home improvement and housing for The Wall Street Journal’s Personal Journal and Weekend sections. She has been a guest on ABC’s World News Tonight, Fox News' Fox and Friends, CNN and MSNBC. Her first-person essay "Amid the Ashes, Baby Carriages, Shoes, Family Photos," which she co-authored with Kathryn Kranhold, won the 2002 Front Page Award for September 11th commentary from the Newswoman’s Club of New York.