Washington Post Editor, Creason Lecturer

The Creason Lecture is supported by an endowment from the Bingham Foundation of Louisville. The event is free and open to the public.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 18, 2005) -- Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, will give the 2005 Creason Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in Memorial Hall at the University of Kentucky.

Downie has been executive editor of the Post since 1991. He began his career at the Washington newspaper as a summer intern in 1964, then worked on the paper’s metro staff and was managing editor before being named executive editor.

Downie’s other duties at the Post included helping supervise the paper’s Watergate coverage and a stint as a London correspondent.

The Creason Lecture is supported by an endowment from the Bingham Foundation of Louisville. The event is free and open to the public. During the Creason Lecture ceremony, the 2005 inductees into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame housed at the University of Kentucky will be introduced. The new Hall of Fame members will be Robert R. Adams, student publications director at Western Kentucky University; Gene Clabes, former owner of the Recorder Newspapers and past president of the Kentucky Press Association; Lee Denney, news director/anchor for WBKR-FM and WOMI-AM; Bob Johnson, former reporter and editor for the Louisville Courier Journal; Marguerite McLaughlin (deceased), co-founder of the UK School of Journalism; and Bob Schulman, formerly with The Courier-Journal and WHAS-TV.