Six outstanding journalists will be inducted Saturday into the Omaha Press Club Hall of Fame.

Todd Andrews, director of integrated communications for the Salvation Army of Omaha, will emcee the 12th annual event, which begins with a 5:30 p.m. reception followed by dinner and the induction ceremonies. The 2020 Hall of Fame event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The event is open to the public. The cost is $50 for Press Club members and $60 for non-members. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 402-345-8008 or emailing opcchristine@gmail.com. You also may go to omahapressclub.com and click on the RSVP button. Non-members need to provide their credit card information.

The 2021 inductees are:

Malcolm “Mal” Adams

Mal Adams’s brilliant career spanned the gamut starting as a broadcast journalist in Omaha and now as an entrepreneur in Japan.

The Omaha native graduated from Central High School in 1967 and worked as a reporter/photographer at KETV in 1969, his sophomore year at Omaha University.

Adams was only the second Black journalist to report on air in Nebraska TV history and was the first to anchor a regular daily newscast in Nebraska.

Adams first went to Japan in 1976 as a news anchor for KNX radio in Los Angeles. In 1981, he became the TV/radio correspondent for the Tokyo bureau of CBS News. Adams helped to start the Cable News Network in Japan in 1984. He produced and hosted CNN’s series “This Week in Japan,” which featured interviews with celebrities and government leaders.

 He has interviewed four U.S. presidents: Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Adams created Totown, the first Black-owned record label in Japan. He expanded it into a lucrative enterprise known as Totown Communications Group Japan and has become an icon in the field of cross-cultural corporate communications.

Adams has received the Maejima Prize, Japan’s equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. He is the only non-Japanese person to have received the award.

Chris Christen

Chris Christen’s interest in a career in journalism started in high school. She was influenced by her newspaper-reading mother and internships at her hometown paper, The Oakland Independent.

She attended Midland Lutheran College, and then headed to southwest Iowa to work as a reporter-photographer at the Red Oak Express. Two years later, she was named editor of the tri-weekly newspaper.

Stringer work for the Omaha World-Herald prompted an invitation from the daily’s managing editor to interview for a copy editing position in Lifestyles. She initially turned down the job thinking it was too “fluffy,” but was convinced to reconsider.

Her plan was to stay at the World-Herald for five to seven years. She found her niche in features journalism, serving as the paper’s first special sections editor and later as niche publications editor. She also had a stint as design director.

At the time of her resignation in May, she was serving as editor for features, special sections, magazines and books. She made the hard decision to leave the newsroom for a chance to blaze a new trail at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as senior manager of creative services.

Henry Cordes

Henry Cordes has been a reporter and staff writer for the Omaha World-Herald for more than 35 years.

The Omaha native joined the paper’s sports department months after graduating from Central High School in 1981. In 1985, he graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and moved over to the World-Herald’s news division, first as a police reporter.

He served for seven years as the paper’s statehouse bureau chief in Lincoln and he’s covered politics, the military and public policy.

He’s a five-time winner of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Sorensen Award, given each year to recognize the state’s most distinguished journalism, and has won national or regional awards for deadline writing, sports writing, feature writing, business writing, enterprise reporting and investigative reporting.

His deadline story on a 2007 mass shooting in Omaha was featured in the Poynter Institute’s 2008 book “Best Newspaper Writing.” He also has authored four books, including two on the history of Nebraska football, and one on an Omaha serial killer.

In 2018, Cordes was inducted into the Central High School Hall of Fame. He served as president of the Omaha Press Club in 2000.

Trina Creighton

As an award-winning anchor/reporter at Omaha’s KMTV for 15 years, Trina Creighton wanted to make a difference. Now, as a college professor, she’s hoping to inspire her broadcasting students – and her colleagues in academia – to strive for the same goal.

The longtime midday anchor began teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2001, quickly becoming a highly respected faculty member in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Her efforts there have grown beyond the classroom.

In recent years, Creighton has emerged as a leader at UNL, spearheading new diversity and inclusion efforts while working to ensure that everyone on campus has a voice.

Creighton started down this career-expanding path in 2018 when she took over the college’s “Social Justice, Human Rights and the Media” course while also being selected to serve on UNL’s N 150 Subcommittee for Diversity and Inclusion.

Today, she’s chair of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications’ Diversity and Inclusion Committee and recently became a diversity professional after completing a certificate program at Cornell University.

In addition to her work in teaching journalism to a new generation of students, Creighton is striving to ensure that future faculty and staff at UNL come from a diverse array of backgrounds.

Susan Eustice (posthumous)

Susan Eustice was divisional director of public and media relations for the Salvation Army division headquarters in Omaha.

In this role, she was the public face – and voice – of the organization for more than 20 years. In addition to Eustice’s impactful media presence, she oversaw numerous fundraisers and events, including the Salvation Army/KETV Back-to-School Backpack Drive and Adopt-A-Family Radiothon at Christmastime.

Eustice previously worked for the Leukemia Society and Opera Omaha. She was a past president and board member of the Omaha Press Club and was co-chair of the club’s Communications Committee for many years. She also was past president of the Public Relations Society of America and the International Association of Business Communicators.

Eustice passed away on May 11, 2019, following a brief illness.

Doug Parrott

Doug Parrott began his career as a reporter for KETV immediately after graduation from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

During his 15 years at KETV, he opened the first Lincoln Bureau for an Omaha TV station and helped successfully push for cameras in Nebraska courtrooms.

He later returned to Omaha to serve as assignment editor for KETV and as the station’s Crime Stoppers reporter. Parrott left the station to launch his public relations career as communications director for Nebraska Gov. Kay Orr.

For the past 30 years, he has been one of the state’s leading PR executives, working primarily with Bailey Lauerman.

A three-time recipient of the Professional of the Year Award from the Nebraska Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, he helped build community support for civic projects including Aksarben Village, TD Ameritrade Park and Qwest Center Omaha (now CHI Health Center). He also has served as the local communications director for the past four Olympic Swim Trials.