The Creason Lecture guest speaker, James Fallows, will open the evening followed by the 2023 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Five journalists with careers that covered some of the biggest stories of the late-20th and early 21st centuries make up the 43rd class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.

The induction ceremony will be March 31 at 6:00 p.m. in the Gatton Student Center Ballroom C at the University of Kentucky. 

Invitations to the event will be issued.

This year’s 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; and

• 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.