As part of The Deadline Club’s golden anniversary celebration in 1975, it established the New York Journalism Hall of Fame with the following 50 honorees:
The original fifty inductees were (in alphabetical order):
- Carl W. Ackerman
- Hugh Baillie
- C.D. Batchellor
- Meyer Berger
- Homer Bigart
- Howard W. Blakeslee
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Hal Boyle
- Arthur Brisbane
- Heywood Broun
- James Wright Brown
- Jimmy Cannon
- Robert Capa
- Robert Considine
- Kent Cooper
- Walter Cronkite
- Elmer Davis
- Barry Farris
- Pauline Frederick
- Wes Gallagher
- Julian Goodman
- William Randolph Hearst
- Roy W. Howard
- Edwin L. James
- Earl Johnson
- Bernard Kilgore
- A.J. Liebling
- Walter Lippman
- Henry R. Luce
- Anne O’Hare McCormick
- Raymond Morley
- Edward R. Murrow
- George Jean Nathan
- Dan Parker
- Alicia Patterson
- Joseph Medill Patterson
- Sylvia Porter
- James Reston
- Grantland Rice
- Harold Ross
- Damon Runyon
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- Herbert Bayard Swope
- Roger Tatarian
- Lowell Thomas
- Dorothy Thompson
- Stanley Walker
- Paul White
- Walter Winchell
- Stanley Woodward
From 1975 to 2000, thirty-nine additional journalists were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- Mel Allen
- Art Athens
- Michael Bloomberg
- Ed Bradley
- George Brown
- John Mack Carter
- Irene Cornell
- Douglas Edwards
- Osborn Elliott
- Morton Frank
- Malvin Goode
- Pete Hamill
- Don Hewitt
- John Hohenberg
- Murray Kempton
- Walter Kerr
- Peter Khiss
- James Kilgallen
- Flora Lewis
- Elmer Lower
- Reuben Maury
- John B. Oakes
- Charles Osgood
- Warren Phillips
- Gabe Pressman
- William Safire
- Harrison Salisbury
- William Shawn
- Liz Smith
- Walter “Red” Smith
- Dr. Frank Stanton
- Gloria Steinem
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
- Robert Trout
- Dewitt Wallace
- Lila Acheson Wallace
- Mike Wallace
- Barbara Walters
- James Wechsler
The Club revived the tradition in 2013 and has honored the following journalists in the years since:
- Cindy Adams
- Ken Auletta*
- Jimmy Breslin
- Tom Brokaw
- Robert Caro*
- Graydon Carter
- Richard Drew
- Max Frankel
- Nancy Gibbs
- Juan González
- Bob Herbert
- N.R. “Sonny” Kleinfield
- Ted Koppel
- Steve Kroft
- Edith Lederer*
- Carol Loomis
- Anthony Mason*
- Linda Mason
- Terry McDonell
- Bill Moyers
- Peggy Noonan
- Jane Pauley
- Leslie “Les Payne”
- Norman Pearlstine
- Carole Simpson*
- Lesley Stahl
- Paul E. Steiger
- Richard B. Stolley
- Gay Talese*
*2023 Honorees