Pamela K. Luecke
Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Teaching Experience

Washington and Lee, August 2001 - present
University of Connecticut, fall 1992
       
Professional Experience
 
Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Ky.:

• Editor and Senior Vice President, November 2000 to May 2001.
• Editor and Vice President, December 1996 - November 2000.
• Editorial Page Editor, October 1995 - December 1996.

Hartford Courant, Hartford, Ct.:

• Deputy Managing Editor, January 1995 - September 1995.
• Assistant Managing Editor/metro, June 1989 - January 1995.

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.:

• Regional Editor, April 1988 - May 1989.
• Assistant Regional Editor, January 1988 - April 1988.
• Special projects reporter, May 1987 - December 1987.
• Business Editor, June 1984 - May 1987.

The Louisville Times, Louisville, Ky.:

• Business Editor, August 1981 - June 1984.

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.:

• Business reporter, July 1979 - August 1981.

Hartford Courant, Hartford, Ct.:

• Features reporter, June 1975 - July 1979.

Education

1986-1987, Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism, Columbia University, New York.

December 1979, Master of Business Administration, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Ct.

June 1975, Master of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Received Harrington Memorial Award

June 1974, B.A., philosophy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.
Editor of student newspaper, Mortar Board, Magna Cum Laude

Professional Honors

Supervising editor for Hartford Courant team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, 1991.

One of the supervising editors for Courier-Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, 1989.


Select Publications

"Keeping reporters' notes out of court," American Editor, August-September-October 2005

“New regulations change the overtime picture,” American Editor, August- September-October 2004

“What should we teach future journalists?” Poynter.org, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla., summer 2003

“Ethics in Action,” column for publication of the Society of American  Business Editors and Writers in  “The Business Journalist,”  2004 to present

“State Taxes,” City Magazine, fall 2002

“Take a Fork in the Road and Don’t Look Back,” Survival Guide for Women Editors, America Press Institute, fall 2002

 “Kentucky's new old economy,” City Magazine, fall 2001

“Publishers find bleak picture getting worse,” American Editor, November-December 2001.

“Editors: If readers don’t care, we should try harder,” American Editor, October 2000

“Spirituality,” chapter in The Local News Handbook, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1999

“Private Companies,” chapter in The Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Business and Economics Journalism, edited by Pamela Hollie Kluge, 1991, Columbia University Press

Professional Memberships

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Newspaper Division and Media Management and Economics Division

Member, Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications

Society of American Business Editors and Writers, education committee

American Society of Newspaper Editors, FOI committee

Virginia Coalition for Open Government, director

Recent Professional Activities

Judge, American City Business Journals’ company-wide contest, 2005

Participant, “Let’s Do It Better” Workshop, Columbia University, June 2005

Speaker, Journalism Educators’ Seminar, American Press Institute, June 2005

Virginia Chair for “Sunshine Sunday and Sunshine Week: Your Right to Know,”  March  2005

Business-Journalism Workshop, American Press Institute, Denver, October 2004, coordinator and speaker

Accreditation site team member: University of Oklahoma (2003); Syracuse University (2003); Middle Tennessee State University (2004)

 AEJMC annual convention, Toronto, August 2004,  Panelist, “Use and Abuse of  Polls”

Judge, American Society of Newspaper Editors Writing Awards (2002-2004)

Judge, New England Newspaper Association “Best Newspaper” awards, January 2004

Judge, White House Correspondents’ Association contest, winter 2003

Panelist, “Ethics and Business Journalism,” Society  of American Business Editors and Writers, annual conventions:  Boston, 2003; Ft. Worth, 2004;  Seattle 2005

AEJMC, annual convention, Kansas City, August 2003:
         Panelist: “Does Gender Make a Difference?”
         Panelist: “What Journalism Students Need to Know about the Journalism Business – and Why”
         Coordinator:  “How the News Media Cover Business Calamities”

Participant, “Beyond Scandals,” Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fl., July 2003.

Presenter, “Ethics and Business Journalism,” National Press        Foundation workshop for business journalists, April 2003

Reviewer for business-journalism textbook, March 2003.

Participant, Business Journalism Education Workshop, Louisiana  State University, Baton Rouge, February 2003

Presenter, SNPA workshops for business journalists, Lexington, Ky., August 2003,  and Savannah, Ga., June 2003

Participant,  “Women in Newsroom Leadership,”  the American Press Institute’s  J. Montgomery Curtis Memorial Seminar, September 2002

Presenter and co-host, Virginia Associated Press seminar for     business journalists, Washington and Lee, September 2002.

Co-editor, American Editor, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 2001- 2002.

Participant, “Cracking the Code: Creating New Lifelines             between Journalists and Academics,” Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,  September 2000.