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:
- Elmer Davis
- Barry Farris
- Pauline Frederick
- Wes Gallagher
- Julian Goodman
- William Randolph Hearst
- Roy W. Howard
- Edwin L. James
- Earl Johnson
- Bernard Kilgore
- 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