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Kentucky people, papers in the news Wheat named editor at Elizabethtown Warren Wheat, a Kentucky native who has spent 37 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, including 16 at USA Today, has been named editor of The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown. Wheat, 62, was most recently the acting national editor at The State in Columbia, S.C. He joined the newspaper, the largest in South Carolina, as the governance editor in 1999 after leaving USA Today, where he was deputy Washington editor and an editorial writer. He previously worked at Gannett News Service in Washington, the Cincinnati Enquirer, The Lexington Leader and The Winchester Sun, where he began his career in 1964 while attending graduate school at the University of Kentucky. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from UK. Wheat, who grew up in Covington, will be moving to Elizabethtown with his wife, Beverly. He will assume the editor’s job on Jan. 2. Brenneman to head ad dept. at Herald-Leader Joe Brenneman, a Missouri publisher, has been named director of advertising at the Lexington Herald-Leader. Brenneman, 36, currently is the publisher of the Lee’s Summit Journal, owned by Knight-Ridder, the Herald-Leader’s parent company. Lee’s Summit is a suburb of Kansas City. A Kansas City native, Brenneman holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast news and a master’s degree in business administration, both from the University of Kansas. He previously worked as director of automotive display advertising, director and manager of Johnson County advertising, district manager of retail advertising and account executive for the Kansas City Star. Morgan retires from Gleaner after 54 years Buddy Morgan, production manager at the Henderson Gleaner, retired from the newspaper at the end of December after 54 years of service. Morgan began his newspaper career with a fib: the 11-year-old lied about his age in 1947 in order to become a paperboy. You had to be 12 to hold the job. He worked his way up through the ranks, from mailroom clerk, to pressman, to apprentice printer, to night composing foreman and then production manager. His tenure at the newspaper saw six different owners, five different printing presses and at least eight publishing systems, ranging from the “hot-metal” LynoType days to computer-based systems today. The newspaper staff held a retirement reception for Morgan, who was highly regarded by staff, according to editor Ron Jenkins. Jenkins noted that Morgan differed from some production managers whose obsession with “getting out on time” left little room for concern about the content of what they were “getting out.” “Not so with Buddy, who has always taken great pride in his craft and this newspaper. The many awards The Gleaner has won over the years for typography and other areas are testimony to his dedication to quality,” said Jenkins. Boone Co. Recorder receives award The 126-year-old Boone County Recorder was recently honored as a Kentucky Centennial Business during the sixth-annual Governor’s Economic Development Leadership Awards program. Accepting the award was Joe Christofield, editor of the Boone County and Florence Recorders. Reichert receives Farm Bureau award Shelbyville Sentinel-News reporter Walt Reichert was named the Kentucky Farm Bureau’s Communicator of the Year. He accepted the award at the group’s 82nd annual meeting at the Galt House in Louisville. Since 1960, Farm Bureau has given communicator awards to journalists they believe have best told farmers’ stories. Reichert, who’s been at the newspaper for 18 months, draws on his own experience as a farmer when he’s writing. He was nominated for the award by local Farm Bureau officials. Burchell joins news staff at Manchester Joe Burchell has been hired as the sports/feature editor at The Manchester Enterprise. Burchell served in the same role in the late 1980s. Ashland’s Shaffer elected to NFPW post Cathie Shaffer, Today's Living editor for The Daily Independent in Ashland, was re-elected treasurer of the National Federation of Press Women at its fall annual conferences. Shaffer is a past president of the organization's Ohio affiliate and of Kentucky Professional Communicators, the Kentucky affiliate. She is also serving as organizing chairman for NFPW/Tri-State, a new affiliate forming to serve the area where Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia meet. One of five elected officers who make up the NFPW board, she is serving a two-year term. Pauline Young, director of media relations for Morehead State University, was named coordinator of NFPW's youth contest at the annual conference.
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