Barry Bingham Jr., who led The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times to national acclaim and three Pulitzer Prizes before seeing his family’s media empire collapse in the 1980s, died April 2, 2006 at his Glenview home.
He was 72 and suffered respiratory failure, his family said.
Bingham, who was editor and publisher of the newspapers from 1971 to 1986, was known for an uncompromising insistence on ethics in journalism. In a biography of his family, Alex S. Jones and Susan E. Tiftt wrote that he “vowed to set the pace for the rest of the newspaper industry in the area of journalistic ethics. This was to be his greatest legacy.”
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
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