Cathie Shaffer News Today

Experience, skills and a track record for excellence are essential characteristics of successful people in any profession, including journalism. Newspapers of all sizes have contracted, and thousands of journalism jobs have disappeared. While many veteran journalists are accepting buyouts or retiring, an even newer trend is more of them still want to contribute to the profession in some capacity.

GREENUP As Greenup County Judge-Executive Bobby Carpenter’s three-decade stay in the seat nears an end, he adjourned what he jokingly called his “last half a meeting” on Tuesday.