Duane Bonifer and Al Cross | University of Kentucky
The writer of one of the most deeply felt domestic stories of the Vietnam War, an early 20th-century civil rights leader, a nationally acclaimed sports writer, a First Amendment champion and one of Kentucky’s most familiar broadcast journalists make up the 2023 class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
This year’s five Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame inductees are:
- Sam Dick, of Lexington, a WEKU-FM reporter who spent more than three decades as a highly regarded reporter and news anchor at Lexington’s WKYT-TV.
- The late John Fetterman, a Courier-Journal reporter and editor of The Louisville Times’ Scene section, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 C-J Magazine story “Pfc. Gibson Comes Home,” about a community’s farewells to a soldier killed in Vietnam.
- Kim Greene, a Louisville lawyer and First Amendment champion who helped start and run the Kentucky Press Association’s Freedom of Information Hotline to serve member newspapers.
- Dave Kindred of Carlock, Illinois, whose spectacular career included 12 years as a Courier-Journal sportswriter and columnist, which led to him interview Louisville native Muhammad Ali more than 300 times.
- The late William Warley, founder and editor of The Louisville News and a civil rights crusader who shaped the movement in Kentucky in the first half of the 20th century.
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