Morehead — Morehead State University graduate Liz Everman, one of the most recognized personalities in Louisville television, will be one of seven inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
The ceremony will be at April 8 at the Hilton Lexington/Downtown Hotel.
A member of MSU’s Alumni Hall of Fame, Everman has been with WLKY-TV since 1980.
“I am deeply honored that my colleagues at WLKY nominated me for this recognition. I walked in the doors of the station at age 24 and have literally grown up there,” she said. “I owe a great deal of gratitude to Rusty Dean and Larry Netherton and so many others too numerous to name at MSU for teaching me the ropes of radio and television, and more importantly for believing in me.”
Everman retired from her anchor post in June 2005 but continues to work on the station’s weekly “Wednesday’s Child” segments she founded. Wednesday’s Child is a special series of reports that helps children find adoptive homes.
She has helped almost 3,000 special-needs children find homes through the program. It has won more than 50 awards, including the Adoption Exchange Association Award for best segment of its kind in the country. She also was honored by the U.S. Congress for her work with adoption, and recently received the Lifetime Achievement Community Service Award from the Louisville Defender newspaper.
Prior to her stint with WLKY, she also worked for WLEX and WTVQ in Lexington.
A native of South Shore, she has been married for 25 years and has two children.
The other 2010 Hall of Fame inductees are:
‰Neil Budde, president and chief product officer at DailyMe.com, a personalized news service that allows readers to choose their news preferences and delivery mode.
‰Al Cross, longtime political reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, now director of the University of Kentucky’s Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
‰Jack Lyne, executive editor of interactive publishing for Site Selection, a publication and Web site focused on corporate real estate strategy and area economic development.
‰James Fredrick “Fred” Paxton (posthumously), former chairman of the Paxton Media Group, owner of daily and weekly newspapers and a Paducah television station.
‰Jim Phillips, news director for WGOH-WUGO radio in Grayson, and former editor of the Grayson Journal-Enquirer.
‰Lois Ogden Sutherland (posthumously), founder of the journalism program and first student newspaper adviser at Northern Kentucky University.
The new honorees will join 165 other journalists inducted into the Hall of Fame since its 1981 inception. Selection of honorees is made by a committee representing the state’s media, the UK Journalism Alumni Association and UK.
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