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Paul Janensch (born November 26, 1938) is the former executive editor of ''The Courier-Journal'', based in Louisville, KY. He is also co-author of a play that has had several stagings.〔(Paul Janensch, contributing editor )〕 Since 2009 Janensch has been a professor emeritus of journalism at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, where he began teaching in 1995 and led the effort to create the graduate journalism program.〔(Quinnipiac University, Faculty Detail, Paul Janensch )〕 He writes and delivers weekly commentaries and essays on media and other issues for commercial and public radio.〔(WQUN AM 1220 )〕 He is the former president of the Associated Press Managing Editors (1989), a board member of the American Society of News Editors, and a Pulitzer Prize juror. ==Newspaper Journalism Career== Janensch started as a cub police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, a cooperative news-gathering agency; he subsequently wrote radio newscasts for United Press International. Upon graduation from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Janensch landed his first real newspaper job working for Publisher Barry Bingham Sr. and Executive Editor Norman Isaacs at ''The Courier-Journal'' in Louisville, KY. As a reporter, he covered civil rights including Martin Luther King’s march to Selma, AL. He then served as Washington correspondent and city editor. In 1964, Janensch was a recipient of the Sevellon Brown Awards in the history of American journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Janensch defended and strengthened ''The Courier-Journal''’s Ombudsman function after it became the first modern North American news organization to have one in 1967. He left the Louisville newspapers in 1975 to become managing editor of the ''Philadelphia Daily News''. While there, he had the sad duty of identifying the body in the Philadelphia morgue of one of his staffers, John S. Knight III, killed in a brutal stabbing. He returned to the Louisville newspapers in 1976 to become managing editor of ''The Louisville Times'', a now-defunct afternoon daily. He subsequently became managing editor of The Courier-Journal and then executive editor of The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. When he held that position, two Louisville staffers won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of refugee camps in Southeast Asia. He helped arrange for the Louisville newspapers to host the 50th anniversary convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors and two years later an annual meeting of the fledgling National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). He filled in for Barry Bingham Jr. as editor and publisher for nine months while Bingham took a sabbatical leave. When Gannett purchased the Louisville newspapers in 1987, Gannett transferred Janensch to its headquarters staff. While there, he established an advanced training program for the Gannett Foundation (now The Freedom Forum) to help Washington-based reporters from regional newspapers develop stories for the papers that employed them. He then was sent to Gannett Suburban Newspapers in White Plains, NY, and served as a vice president and editor and general manager of ''The Journal News'' of Rockland (NY). In 1992, he left Gannett to become top editor of the Worcester (MA) ''Telegram and Gazette'', then owned by the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. At all three newspaper companies, he was known for recruiting and promoting women and minority news professionals. After leaving Worcester, he became a consultant to Russian newspapers in 1994-95 under a USAID grant program administered by New York University. Janensch advised on steps to transform former government-owned and subsidized newspapers into profitable businesses and also on the importance of editors forming associations to share best practices and defend against pressures from outside forces. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Janensch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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