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The University of the Cumberlands’s student newspaper, The Patriot, received the third-place General Excellence Award for class 1 student publications at the Kentucky Press Association’s Convention on Friday. In addition to the General Excellence Award, members of The Patriot’s...

I almost never became a journalist.  The first time I attended a Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) Conference was the summer before my second year at Eastern Kentucky University in 2017.  I had just been hired on as the opinion’s editor at The Eastern Progress,...

Former News Journal Sports Editor Jim McAlister died Tuesday at the age of 67. McAlister spent 10 years as the sports editor, covering Corbin, Whitley County, Williamsburg and Lynn Camp from 2003 to 2013. McAlister won numerous Kentucky Press Association awards for his work...

Gotta brag just a little this week. For the third straight year, the News Journal was named best newspaper, among large weekly publications in Kentucky, at the Kentucky Press Association annual convention last month. This is a big deal to those in our profession. Our category is...