NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Six Vanderbilt University alumni who worked in student media and then distinguished themselves after college will be inducted into the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame on Oct. 22.
They are Don Benson, president and CEO of Lincoln Financial Media; Alex Heard, author and editorial director for Outside magazine; Buster Olney, writer and analyst for ESPN; Dr. Raphael Smith, professor of medicine emeritus, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and Tracy Wilkinson, Mexico City bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.
Also to be honored posthumously is Ralph McGill, journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist with the Atlanta Constitution.