Legendary journalist Ralph Z. Hallow was remembered Sunday for his “ferocious” appetite for scoops and giving attention to the conservative movement long ignored by the dominant liberal media.

“He was ferocious in the newsroom. He was ferocious about what he described to be the priesthood of being a journalist in America,” said his step-son Ian Walters, the spokesman for the American Conservative Union and CPAC, during a ceremony at the Washington Times where Hallow worked for 38 years.