Interview Summary

This interview with David V. Hawpe was conducted in May 2013. Hawpe talks about high school basketball in Kentucky, particularly the player Richie Farmer.

David V. Hawpe is from Louisville, Kentucky. In 2009 he concluded a 40-year career at his hometown newspapers, during which he rose from Eastern Kentucky Bureau Reporter to Managing Editor, Editorial Director, and Editor of The Courier-Journal. During his tenure in leadership positions, the Courier-Journal won four Pulitzer Prizes.

Hawpe was a member of the Kentucky Humanities Council (2010-16) and served on the editorial board of the University Press of Kentucky. Hawpe graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1965 and was given an honorary doctorate from Lindsey Wilson College in 2009. He was a Nieman Fellow and faculty member at Harvard University from 1974-75, and completed a summer program in media law at Stanford University in 1969. In 2009 he received the James Madison Award for Service to the First Amendment and was given the Distinguished Service Award by the National Associated Press Managing Editors (APME). He served as APME President and led the successful rewrite of its ethics policy, adding a mandate for diverse staffing and coverage by newspapers. Earlier recognition included the 1999 National Walker Stone Prize for Editorial Writing and that year's Anthony Lewis Media Award for Public Advocacy from the State Department of Public Advocacy.

Interview Accession

2021oh0977_mcalk0004

Interviewee Name

David V. Hawpe

Interviewer Name

Morgan C. Atkinson

Interview Partial Date

May 2013

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