Press Club of Cleveland Announces 2006 Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame Inductees.

CLEVELAND -- The five new inductees to the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame, announced today by The Press Club of Cleveland, represent more than two centuries in the media business.

Former Cleveland Press Society Editor Marge Alge, Broadcaster Casey Coleman, Cleveland Jewish News Editor Cynthia Dettelbach, Photographer Ron Kuntz and Retired Plain Dealer Publisher Alex Machaskee were elected to the Hall by vote of the Press Club members.

The Class of 2006 will be honored at a dinner on Oct. 26 at LaCentre in Westlake. Ticket information will be available a later date.

A capsule look at the careers of the inductees:

Marjorie (Marge) Alge - Her 34-year career at The Cleveland Press included two decades as the paper's society editor -- a whirlwind schedule of party and lifestyle coverage of Cleveland's rich and famous citizens. She covered the inaugural parties of Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Carter and a Cleveland Orchestra European tour. After The Press closed, she wrote for Northern Ohio Live, Cleveland Magazine, Sun Newspapers and had a Sunday Higbee-sponsored column featuring "social chatter" in The Plain Dealer. In 2001 she authored "People, Places and Flings," a photo memoir of Cleveland's society life.

Casey Coleman - The son of legendary Cleveland Browns football play-by-play announcer Ken Coleman has made his own name in three decades of sports broadcasting in Cleveland, most recently as the co-host of Wills & Coleman in the Morning at radio WTAM-1100. He has called play-by play for the Force, CSU, and the Browns as well as five Budweiser Grand Prix races. He received Associated Press awards for Best Regularly Scheduled Sports Program and Best Sportscaster in Ohio. He has also received the Cleveland March of Dimes Achievement In Radio award for the best sportscaster in Cleveland. Coleman has also been honored by Sigma Delta Chi, the Press Clubs of Cleveland and Akron as well as receiving four Emmy Awards in television while at WJW-TV 8.

Cynthia Dettelbach - Since 1980, Dettelbach has been the editor of the Cleveland Jewish News, leading the paper to numerous awards as well as winning many herself, including first place for lifestyle column in the open division of the Cleveland Press Club's 2006 Excellence in Journalism competition. In 1998, she was awarded the Joseph Polakoff award for overall excellence in journalism from the American Jewish Press Association. She has a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. Her book, "In the Driver's Seat: The Automobile in American Literature and Popular Culture," won the first Ralph Henry Gabriel prize in American Studies. In 1983, she was named one of Cleveland's most influential women by Cleveland Magazine.

Ron Kuntz - He began his career as a professional photographer at United Press International in 1953. Based in Cleveland, he traveled the world on UPI assignments in addition to covering Cleveland's sports teams. He has photographed 38 Kentucky Derbys, 10 Olympic Games, including the Munich Games in 1972, and the 1980 Games in Lake Placid, where the American hockey team upset the Russians. He also covered the Mohammed Ali-George Foreman fight in 1974 in Zaire. Sports greats he has photographed include Jim Brown, Pete Rose, Arnold Palmer, Carl Lewis, Sandy Koufax and Secretariat. His pictures hang in both the pro baseball and football Halls of Fame. A long-time volunteer in the Bill Glass Prison Ministry, he has made 2,000 prison visits on three continents. Since 1992, he has worked free-lance for Reuters and the Associated Press.

Alex Machaskee - The president and publisher of The Plain Dealer capped off more than a half-century in newspaper by receiving the Special Recognition Award for exemplary service in print journalism from the Associated Press Society of Ohio this year. Machaskee, born in Warren, worked as a sports reporter and general assignment reporter for The Tribune Chronicle in Warren before joining The Plain Dealer in 1960. He rose from promotions director, assistant to the publisher, director of labor relations and vice president, general manager and finally publisher in 1990. As publisher, Machaskee beefed up the news staff, supervised the development of a $200 million production and distribution center in Brooklyn, and a $38 million headquarters building in downtown Cleveland. The Plain Dealer won its first Pulitzer Prize in more than 50 years under his stewardship. He also devoted extensive time and resources to community service. He chaired United Way Services in 2002, a year after leading the agency's fund-raising campaign. Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra, was renovated under his direction. Machaskee retired this year.