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Biography, Al Cross, February 19, 2008, speaker at LWC Al Cross, Director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, will be the guest speaker at the Tuesday, February 19, 2008, meeting of the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will be held at Lindsey Wilson College's Cranmer Dining Center at 11:45amCT. Though he among the most famous Kentuckians on the public scene today, Sue Stivers, Executive Director of the Chamber, has sent a copy of Mr. Cross' biography to better acquaint Adair Countians with his background beyond his years as the Courier Journal political columnist and as the longest serving panelist on KET's Comment on Kentucky. It follows below: Biography: Al Cross Director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky Al Cross became director of the Institute in August 2004 after more than 26 years as a reporter at The Courier-Journal, the last 15 as the Louisville newspapers chief political writer. His coverage ranged from presidential to local elections and included all facets of state government. As director of the Institute, which seeks to help rural media define the public agenda in their communities and report on regional issues, he is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky. Cross was the elected president of the Society of Professional Journalists, the nations oldest, broadest and largest journalism organization, from October 2001 to September 2002. He was a charter member of his college SPJ chapter, president of the Louisville chapter, vice president of the Bluegrass Chapter, first chairman of the 1990 national convention in Louisville, chairman of an SPJ regional conference, and regional director for Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois on the national SPJ board in 1987-89. He was national chairman of Project Watchdog, an SPJ effort to explain the role of the news media in a democratic society. He is chairman of the SPJ Resolutions Committee, a member of the groups Ethics Committee and International Journalism Committee, and a director of SPJs Sigma Delta Chi Foundation. His awards include a share of the Pulitzer Prize won by The Courier-Journal staff in 1989 for coverage of the nations deadliest bus crash. He was co-recipient of an honorable mention for environmental reporting in the Southern Journalism Awards for a 1987 series on strip mining. He has received awards for reporting and column writing from the Louisville Chapter of SPJ. He lectured at The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in 2001 and a New York workshop on campaign finance sponsored by Brigham Young University in 2000, and helped teach a non-credit course on politics at Bellarmine University in 1992. He is the longest-running panelist on KET's weekly "Comment on Kentucky, has appeared on C-SPAN and "Washington Week In Review," and has been quoted in The Almanac of American Politics. He is the author of the Kentucky Encyclopedia article on Gov. Wallace Wilkinson (1987-91) and a major contributor to the second edition of the book Kentuckys Governors. He wrote Coming on Strong Down the Stretch for Campaigns and Elections: Contemporary Case Studies, published in 1999 by Congressional Quarterly, and the foreword for the Kentucky 24-7, a 2004 book of photographs in a national, state-by-state project. Cross is a graduate of Clinton County High School and Western Kentucky University, where he was chief reporter, editor and advertising manager of the award-winning College Heights Herald, and served on the Academic Council and student government. Even before high school, he was an announcer at WANY AM-FM and wrote for the Clinton County News. He was editor of The Reporter in nearby Monticello in 1975; assistant managing editor of The Logan Leader and The News-Democrat at Russellville in 1975-77; and editor of the Leitchfield Gazette and the Grayson County News-Gazette in 1977-78. He began work for The Courier-Journal at the Somerset bureau in May 1978, covering Richard Nixon's visit to Hyden that summer. He moved with the bureau to Bardstown in 1979, when it became the Central Kentucky Bureau and he covered the visit of President Carter. He began covering the Kentucky General Assembly in 1980 and wrote about many topics including energy, the environment, county finances, land-use planning and local and state politics. In the papers main office in Louisville in 1984-86, he covered education, transportation and politics. He joined The C-J's Frankfort Bureau in 1987 and became political writer in 1989. Alvin Miller Cross was born April 24, 1954 in Knoxville, Tenn., and grew up in Albany, Ky., nestled between Lake Cumberland, Dale Hollow Lake, the western front of the Appalachians and the Tennessee border. He grew up watching Nashville television and reading The Courier-Journal. His father, Perry Cross (1904-93), was a politically active businessman who was state representative for Clinton and Cumberland counties in 1948-49. His mother, Winnie Miller Cross (1917- ), is an East Tennessee native and Berea College graduate. His brother David is a politically active attorney in Albany. Al Cross is married to Patti Hodges Cross, a Grayson County native and independent designer/editor of publications. A former Lion, Kiwanian and Rotarian, he enjoys reading, touring, boating, photography, his West Highland White Terriers and helping his wife restore their 100-year-old home in historic South Frankfort, near the state Capitol. This story was posted on 2008-02-11 09:12:51
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