2024 Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame Inductees
Bob Gould
Broadcast Journalism Professor of Practice
Michigan State University (East Lansing)
Bob Gould is an award-winning broadcast journalist with 34 years in the industry, starting in local TV news and currently teaching visual storytelling and broadcasting at the MSU School of Journalism for the past 17 years.
He began his career in 1990 as a TV news photojournalist at WILX-TV in Lansing, later moving to WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids. In 1995, he became the Chief Photojournalist, overseeing nearly a dozen photojournalists and editors while producing daily TV news stories.
Bob's accolades include over 40 awards from the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB), and Michigan Associated Press, such as “Best Individual Photojournalism” in 1998 and 2006. He has received eight regional Emmy nominations and three Emmy awards, including one for a documentary produced in Malawi, Africa. Recently, he won a “Best of Competition Award” from the Broadcast Education Association’s annual Festival of Media Arts Competition.
In 2022, Bob received the Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education from the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2017, he earned the NPPA's “Robin F. Garland Outstanding Educator” award. He is also a member of the Emmy Silver Circle, recognizing his 25 years in the broadcast industry. This year, he will be inducted into the Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
His students have won hundreds of state, regional, and national awards, including a 6th consecutive Station-of-the-Year award from the MAB Foundation.
Bob served a four year term as President of the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has been active with the Michigan Association of Broadcasters as a Foundation Board member and honorary member for many years. He is currently the Video Chair for the NPPA’s prestigious Best of Photojournalism National Contest and served as NPPA President in 2006.
In November 2023, Bob completed a documentary in Puerto Rico on the media effects of Category 5 Hurricane Maria, which is now nominated for an Emmy Award.
Bob celebrates 31 years of marriage to Susan, with two children, Ilene, 25, and Isaac, 21, both now working in television news in Michigan.
Dave LewAllen
Anchor (Retired)
WXYZ-TV (Detroit)
Dave LewAllen retired from WXYZ-TV in April of 2023 after a decorated 35-year journalism career. He was the weekday evening news anchor at the time of his retirement.
LewAllen joined Channel 7 in 1988 as a sports reporter. He made the permanent switch to news in 2004, after serving as weekend sports anchor and reporter for years.
In 2012, Dave was honored as a Silver Circle recipient from NATAS Michigan for his service and achievements over 25 years in the broadcast industry. Last year, he was inducted into the Central Michigan University Media Hall of Fame. He was also honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, Detroit Chapter, receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the organization in 2023.
He was awarded 5 regional EMMYs during his career, most recently as top newscast for the station’s live coverage of the one-year anniversary of the Oxford school shooting.
Prior to joining WXYZ-TV, Dave worked for WJBK-TV in Southfield and WJIM-TV (now WLNS-TV) in Lansing. He also had experience in radio, covering sports for WJR-AM and CKLW-AM in Detroit. He also served as the radio play-by-play voice of University of Detroit basketball for several seasons.
Dave conceived and hosted "Golf Michigan," which aired on WXYZ for four years. The series celebrated the golf industry in the state of Michigan. Dave hosted numerous news and sports specials on WXYZ, including the Detroit Auto Show, Woodward Dream Cruise, Light Up the Season, Rocket Mortgage Classic golf, as well as the Rochester Hometown Christmas Parade.
During his years in sports journalism, he covered three Super Bowls, the World Series, NHL, and NBA Finals, as well as major golf championships, including the Masters, U.S. Open and Ryder Cup matches.
Dave is a member of the Board of Directors for Rainbow Connection, which provides wishes for Michigan children with life-threatening illnesses. He served a two-year term as President of the Board of the non-profit. He is also a past president of the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association. Dave also served as chairperson of a charity golf outing for the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan for over a decade. He also contributes his time on behalf of numerous Detroit area charities.
Dave holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant. He played football for the Chippewas as a walk-on during his freshman year before concentrating on academics and working toward his ultimate career objectives.
Dave and his wife, Sandra, reside in Oakland County. They have two children.
Paula L. Tutman
Broadcast Journalist and Reporter
WDIV-TV (Detroit)
Multi-Emmy winning and multi-Emmy nominated broadcast journalist, Paula L. Tutman has spent more than 42 years in front of the camera as a broadcast news reporter. A Peace Corps brat who grew up in Africa, she has spent the last 32 years living in and falling in love with Detroit and her adopted “soul’s home”, the State of Michigan. Paula has vast experience in numerous reporting genres. She spent 8 years as a police reporter in Louisville, Kentucky and Baltimore, Maryland.
A charter reporter for WDIV Detroit’s First-at-4 news broadcast as a specialty correspondent with a focus on interesting and relevant topics with a deep regard for stories that have elements of human interest and social justice, Tutman was part of the structuring team for the new program in 2014.
Paula is dedicated to the craft and responsibility of professional journalism. Of the 11 interns she has mentored and trained, all successfully pursued and achieved employment in the broadcast industry. Paula teaches a Master Your Message Communication Course© to organizations and corporations. The course under the umbrella of her company North On Woodward, is an intensive workshop that teaches an advanced communication model designed to shift office-place communication culture into high gear to team-strengthen in order to work better, sell better, be better and improve productivity and quality service in all areas of business and healthcare.
During the Covid shut-down, Paula taught herself sculpting. Her work caught the eye of several gallery owners and she is currently preparing for several art shows for the fall of 2024 as a debut artist. She has a deep love for the arts and has been a member of numerous boards that benefit children and the arts. She is a charter board member of Motor City Lyric Opera and a past board member of Detroit PAL, Variety Children's Charity and Detroit Music Hall for the Arts, as well as founder and chair emeritus of Children’s Tooth Fairy Foundation, a 501c3 which provided free dental care and oral health education to more than 1000 underserved and under-insured children in Michigan.
As a farm girl originally from the Chesapeake Bay region, if Mother Nature made it, she enjoys it. Paula has collected adventure points competitive sailing, horseback riding, flying an F-16 fighter jet, crashing a motorcycle, performing in an opera, and opening the circus as a clown. She’s witnessed the great polar bear migration in the Canadian sub-Arctic and photographed Bushmen in Senegal. An avid flower-freak, she raises orchids which she believes are nature’s most sensuous blooms. She gardens to produce vegetables for her favorite food bank and loses herself in clay ceramics she affectionately calls Ugly Ceramics. In 2009 she took on her most extreme adventure underneath a crop of overgrown Evergreens at the tidal basin of an Alaskan glacier by getting married for the last time. She splits her time between rural Ontario and Suburban Detroit with her husband and stepdaughters.