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The Youngstown Press Club, Inc. was re-established in 2018 to promote journalism and other communication-related professions in the Mahoning Valley. The Youngstown Press Club operates exclusively for educational and social purposes. The Youngstown Press Club maintains a registered office in Youngstown, Ohio.
2023 Hall of Fame InducteesYOUNGSTOWN - Four distinguished Mahoning Valley journalists were inducted into the Youngstown Press Club Hall of Fame on Sept. 7, 2023.
They are: Dennis B. Mangan, retired Vindicator editorial page editor; Emily Webster Love, former associate metro editor at The Tribune Chronicle; Gerry Ricciutti, senior reporter at WKBN and WYTV; and the late Ann N. Przelomski, who was managing editor of The Vindicator. The inductions were at the press club's Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 7 at Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave. See photos from this year's Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet here. Read more about this year's Hall of Fame inductees here. Medal of Merit Goes to Mary Beth Earnheardt
Mary Beth Earnheardt
The Youngstown Press Club presented its medal of merit to Mary Beth Earnheardt, a former club executive director, for her work in re-establishing the press club in 2018 and guiding it in the years that followed.
Earnheardt is the chairwoman of Youngstown State University's communication department and a professor in the Anderson Journalism Program. The award was presented at the press club's Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 7 at Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave. Read more here. 2023 Scholarship Winners
The Youngstown Press Club announces its 2023 scholarship winners.
The $2,000 awards are being made to Hannah Werle of Girard, a journalism major at Youngstown State University, and Gianna Effinite of West Middlesex, a corporate communication major at the Penn State University Shenango Campus. Werle, who is enrolled in Youngstown State University's Sokolov Honors College, is a double major in journalism and communication, with a minor in English. She is a student assistant in the university's office of marketing and communications and the assistant copy editor at The Jambar, the university's student newspaper. Effinite is a junior corporate communication major at Penn State University at Shenango, who has been on the dean's list since the fall of 2020, She has an abiding interest in golf, saying she enjoys promoting the game and that her goal is to work in the golf industry. For more on the Youngtown Press Club scholarships and this year's recipients, see our Scholarship page.
The third annual Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet was held on Sept. 7, 2023, at Stambaugh Auditorium. The press club inducted Emily Webster Love, Dennis Mangan, Ann Przelomski and Gerry Ricciutti into the Hall of Fame, and awarded the Medal of Merit to Mary Beth Earnheardt. Scholarships were awarded to Hannah Werle and Gianna Effinite.
Click here for video of the entire program. Click here for more photos from the event. Thank you to Marisa Sergi and Evan Schumann owners of L'uva Bella Winery in Lowellville for speaking to the Youngstown Press Club on June 1, 2023, about wine making and the marketing of their unique wines.
Click here for more photos from this event. Members of the Youngstown Press Club participated in a worldwide recognition of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2023, reading the names of 67 journalists who were killed in 2022, who were memorialized in a prayer service by Father Mykola Zomchak at Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Click here for more photos from this event. The Youngstown Press Club's annual meeting April 26 featured keynote speaker Henry Gomez, senior national political reporter at NBC News, who spoke on "How Youngstown Prepared Me for a Career in Political Journalism.".
Click here for more photos from this event. Thank you to Dorie Chevlen, New York Times and Wirecutter staff writer, for engaging us with stories, tips and advice on how to write stories that get read, at the Youngstown Press Club's April breakfast speaker event on April 4, 2023, at Eastern Gateway Community College.
Click here for more photos from this event. Thank you to Jacob Schriner-Briggs for speaking on "Democracy, the Constitution and the American Press" at the Youngstown Press Club's March lunch speaker event, on March 7, 2023, at Concept Studio.
Click here for more photos from this event. 
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