Education
Ohio University.
columnist presenter news presenter
Ohio University.
After attending Ohio University he entered journalism in 1963, writing obituaries for the Cleveland Press. In 1970 Feagler started a regular feature column that continued until the Press closed 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 provided regular news commentaries for WKYC-television and WEWS-television, and hosted the talk show, Feagler! during a brief stint co-anchoring television-3’s evening newscasts from 1991 to 1993. As of 2013 he was the host of Feagler & Friends, a weekly half-hour discussion program on WVIZ. Feagler retired from The Plain Dealer with his last column published on Sunday, January 4, 2009.
Feagler received the Peabody Award (1991), the DuPont-Columbia Award (1991), 23 local Emmy Awards and 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 returned again in November 2007. Many of Feagler’s favorite columns have been published as collections.
