Dick Feagler
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| Dick Feagler | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Feagler July 29, 1938 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Newspaper columnist Television personality TV and radio News anchor Playwright |
| Years active | 1960-present |
| Awards | Peabody Award (1991) DuPont-Columbia Award(1991) Press Club's Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame (1994) 23 total Emmy Awards wins (Cleveland Area) United Press International {UPI} |
Richard "Dick" Feagler (born July 29, 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a newspaper columnist, playwright and television personality from Cleveland, Ohio. After attending Ohio University he entered journalism in 1963, writing obituaries for the Cleveland Press. In 1970 Feagler started a regular feature column that continued until the Press closed in 1982.[1]
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Career biography, credentials
Feagler continued to write his column for numerous Ohio newspapers, including the Akron Beacon Journal, the Willoughby News-Herald and the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. The Plain Dealer began running the column in 1993. Feagler provided regular news commentaries for WKYC-TV and WEWS-TV, and hosted the talk show, Feagler! during a brief stint co-anchoring TV-3’s evening newscasts from 1991 to 1993. As of 2013 he was the host of Feagler & Friends, a weekly half-hour discussion program on WVIZ.
Feagler retired from The Plain Dealer with his last column published on Sunday, January 4, 2009. [2]
Awards and honors
Feagler received the Peabody Award (1991), the DuPont-Columbia Award (1991), 23 local Emmy Awards and awards from United Press International and the Associated Press. Feagler was inducted into the Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame in 1994.
One of Feagler’s most popular newspaper pieces, “Christmas at Aunt Ida’s” was adapted into a stage production in 2006 at the Huntington Playhouse in Bay Village, Ohio. The play returned again in November 2007.
Many of Feagler’s favorite columns have been published as collections.
Bibliography
- Feagler’s Cleveland (1996)
- “Did You Read Feagler Today?” (1998)
- “I know I’m not supposed to say this . . . But I’ll say it anyway" (2001)
- Is it Just Me? (2005)
References
External links
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- [1][dead link]
- Queer high for a straight guy
- Plain Dealer column archive
- Feagler & Friends
- Articles with hCards
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- Articles with dead external links from November 2013
- American columnists
- People from Bay Village, Ohio
- Television anchors from Cleveland, Ohio
- Ohio University alumni
- Living people
- 1938 births
- People from Cleveland, Ohio
- People from Cuyahoga County, Ohio
