5 to be inducted into Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame April 8
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 17, 2025) — An award-winning photographer, Kentucky’s leading TV news journalist, a longtime broadcast sports journalist and two print journalists who covered some of the biggest stories of the last four decades make up the 2025 class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
This year’s five inductees are:
• Dick Gabriel, a broadcast sports journalist whose distinguished career has included 40 years as a reporter, host and announcer with the University of Kentucky Television/Radio Network;
• Ron Garrison, an award-winning photographer and former photo director and visuals editor at the Lexington Herald-Leader;
• Jamie Lucke, current editor-in-chief of Kentucky Lantern and former reporter and editorial writer at the Lexington Herald-Leader who has been called a “voice for Eastern Kentucky”;
• Stephen J. Ford, whose more than four decades as a reporter, editor and editorial writer helped preserve, adapt and rejuvenate the public service mission of The Courier Journal, Kentucky’s leading source of news; and
• Renee Shaw, the director of public affairs and moderator at Kentucky Educational Television (KET) who serves as host of some of the Commonwealth’s most consequential news programs — the network’s weeknight public affairs program, “Kentucky Edition,” the public policy discussion series “Kentucky Tonight,” and the weekly interview series “Connections.”
The 2025 induction ceremony is 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at UK’s Gatton Student Center. Seating for the event is limited. Previous inductees of the Hall of Fame, members of the press, the UK community and public may RSVP by 4 p.m. Friday, March 28, by calling the UK School of Journalism and Media at 859-257-3904 or emailing Mary Ann Williamson at mawill3@email.uky.edu.
Created by the University of Kentucky Journalism Alumni Association, the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame honors achieving journalists who are Kentucky natives or have spent most of their careers working for Kentucky media organizations. More than 225 individuals, both with and without formal ties to UK, have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. For more information about the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame visit ci.uky.edu/jam/about/kentucky-journalism-hall-fame.
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