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Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame chooses 4 new members

Published August 19, 2021 2:43 PM

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two media executives, a former newspaper owner and a veteran Associated Press correspondent have been chosen for the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. The inductees are former Harris Enterprises CEO Lloyd Ballhagen, veteran AP Wichita Correspondent Roxana Hegeman, former Hillsboro Free Press owner Joel Klaassen and Inland Press Foundation Executive Director Tom Slaughter. They are to be honored during a ceremony Oct. 9 in Newton. Ballhagen was Harris Enterprises CEO and board chairman before his 1997 retirement. Hegeman has been AP’s Wichita correspondent since 1998, and Klaassen founded the Hillsboro Free Press that same year. Slaughter has been with the Inland foundation since 2011 and is a former AP executive.

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