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Ivory honored by Kentucky newspaper |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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Former Hot Springs resident Bennie L. Ivory, who began his journalism career with The Sentinel-Record, was one of 30 persons recently honored by a Kentucky newspaper, the Louisville Defender, which recognizes individuals “who have attained significant achievements or made meaningful contributions to the community.”
Ivory is the executive editor, senior vice president/news at the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky's largest daily newspaper.
As top editor, he is responsible for all aspects of coverage.
He supervises a staff of 190 editors, reporters, artists, photographers, cartoonists, designers, columnists and online staff.
Ivory was a reporter and editor for Hot Springs ’ hometown newspaper from 1969-1979. He was the assistant city editor for the News-Star World in Monroe, La. in 1979 and the city editor in 1981.
From 1982-1985, he worked as the state’s editor and the night and day national editor for USA Today in Rosslyn, Va.
Prior to joining the Courier-Journal, he worked as the executive editor at The Wilmington News Journal in Wilmington, Del.
He has also worked in similar positions at Florida Today in Cocoa Beach, Fla., The Clarion-Ledger and the Daily News, both in Jackson, Miss.
As managing editor of The Clarion-Ledger, he led the investigation that prompted the reopening of the murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers some 30 years after his death. The investigation led to the indictment and subsequent conviction of a white supremacist whose two previous trials had ended in hung juries.
At The Courier-Journal, he led coverage that exposed widespread police abuse of African-American men and others. Coverage resulted in some reforms, including revitalization of a system to flag problem officers.
He created and led the paper’s information center that played a major role in the newspaper receiving the 2008 Outstanding Achievement Award for Media Operations.
Ivory has received numerous awards, including Editor of the Year in 1994 as executive editor of Florida Today, which also was named Newspaper of the Year.
He won the Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity Leadership in 2004 from the Associated Press Managing Editors, American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Freedom Forum.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia in 1973.
He is married to Rosalind Jones Ivory, formerly of Malvern.
They have two sons, Kevin “Tioka” and Jeffrey, and two grandsons.
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