Six New Members to be Inducted Into Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 31, 2015) — Six new members will be inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame Thursday, April 16, at The Grand Reserve, 903 Manchester Street #190, in Lexington. The six will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at a luncheon ceremony sponsored by the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications Alumni Association.
That evening, the school will hold its 38th annual Joe Creason Lecture in Journalism at 6:30 p.m. in Room 118 of the White Hall Classroom Building on the UK campus. This year's presenter of the lecture is Pamela Brown, CNN justice correspondent. Brown, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, joined CNN in 2013. She previously worked at ABC7/WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.
The 2015 Hall of Fame inductees are:
- Steve Burgin, investigative reporter and weekend anchor with WLKY in Louisville;
- Judy Jenkins, reporter and columnist for The Gleaner in Henderson, Kentucky, (posthumous induction);
- Jeffrey Marks, president and general manager of WDBJ Television, Inc. in Roanoke, Virginia, previously with WHAS-TV and radio;
- Mark Neikirk, executive director, Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement at Northern Kentucky University, previously with The Cincinnati Post/The Kentucky Post;
- Ed Reinke, photographer with The Associated Press in Kentucky for more than 25 years (posthumous induction); and
- Landon Wills, owner, publisher and editor of the McLean County News from 1946 to 1972 (posthumous induction).
The six new honorees will join 196 other journalists inducted into the Hall of Fame since its 1981 inception. Selection of honorees is made by a committee representing the state’s media, the UK Journalism Alumni Association and the University of Kentucky. Nominees must be either Kentucky natives or outstanding journalists who have spent the bulk of their careers in the state.
Information on reserving a seat for the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame induction luncheon is available at http://jat.uky.edu/ky-journalism-hall-of-fame.html or by calling June Horn at 859-257-1730.
MEDIA CONTACT: Rebecca Stratton and Blair Hoover; 859-323-2395, rebecca.stratton@uky.edu