Edward Bennett is a veteran journalist who has spent 35 years in a variety of reporting, editing and newsroom leadership roles for newspapers in Louisville, Ky.
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Edward A. Bennett '68 is a veteran journalist who has spent 35 years in a variety of reporting, editing and newsroom leadership roles for newspapers in Louisville, Ky.
As a reporter, he covered local and state politics, wrote extensively about education and did magazine writing. He spent about 15 years directing local news coverage, mostly as city editor but also as an assistant managing editor and managing editor of the intensely local afternoon paper, The Louisville Times.
After its merger with its morning sister, The Courier-Journal, and purchase of the company by the Gannett Co., Inc. in 1986, he served again as city editor, the position he held during the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the deaths of 27 youngsters in an unsafe church bus that was hit by a drunken driver.
In 1990 he joined the opinion side of the operation, initially continuing his focus on local and state issues as a member of the paper's editorial board and later leading that group in his current position as the editor of editorials.
His wife, Carolyn Gatz, operates a consulting practice in urban development and is executive director of The Greater Louisville Project, a civic agenda-setting and benchmarking initiative.They have three children, ages 19 to 25.
