Dick Feagler

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Dick Feagler is a newspaper columnist and television personality from Cleveland, Ohio. After attending Ohio University he began his career in journalism writing obituaries for the Cleveland Press. In 1970 Feagler started a regular feature column and continued until the Press folded in 1982.

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 has also provided regular news commentaries for WKYC-TV and WEWS-TV, and hosted the talk show, Feagler! During a brief stint he co-anchoring TV-3’s evening newscasts from 1991 to 1993. He is currently the host of Feagler & Friends, a weekly half-hour discussion program on WVIZ.

Feagler has received numerous awards for his work including the Peabody Award (1991), the DuPont-Columbia Award (1991), 23 local Emmy Awards, and numerous 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 will return again in November 2007.

Many of Feagler’s favorite columns have been published as collections: Feagler’s Cleveland; “Did You Read Feagler Today?”; “I know I’m not supposed to say this . . . But I’ll say it anyway”; and Is it Just Me?