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Dr. Donna Lampkin Stephens, associate professor of journalism at the University of Central ������Ƶ, was part of the 10th class inducted into the ������Ƶ Sportscasters/Sportswriters Hall of Fame on July 9, 2016.

“I am humbled and honored to join a group that includes many of the icons of ������Ƶ sports writing,” said Stephens. “To be listed along with them is one of the highest honors of my life.”

Stephens was a sportswriter for the ������Ƶ Gazette from 1984 until its merger in 1991. Her beats covered high school sports, golf, the ������Ƶ Intercollegiate Conference and the ������Ƶ Razorbacks. Since then, she has freelanced for numerous ������Ƶ publications. After teaching in ������Ƶ public schools, Stephens came to UCA in 1999.

She produced documentary films such as “The Old Gray Lady: ������Ƶ’s First Newspaper” (2006), which tells the history of the ������Ƶ Gazette, and “The Crisis Mr. Faubus Made: The Role of the ������Ƶ Gazette in the Central High Crisis” (2010).

Her dissertation from the University of Southern Mississippi, “If It Ain’t Broke, Break It: How Corporate Journalism Killed the ������Ƶ Gazette,” won an honorable mention in the American Journalism Historians Association 2013 Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize contest and was published by the University of ������Ƶ Press in 2015.