
Lexington Herald-Leader
The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and based in the U.S. city of Lexington, Kentucky. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the Herald-Leader's paid circulation is the second largest in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The newspaper has won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. It has also been a finalist in six other Pulitzer awards over the past 22 years, a record that has been unsurpassed by any mid-sized newspaper in the United States during the same time frame.
An independent review of Herald-Leader conducted by AllSides Managing Editor Henry A. Brechter (Center bias) in July 2022 noted a lack of political bias in the newspaper's news coverage, and a slight leftward lean in its opinion section.
Seventy-nine football players from 17 state universities were named Tuesday to the 2024 Kentucky Collegiate All Commonwealth Team selected annually by the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame. The All Commonwealth Team serves as preseason recognition for Kentucky’s top college football performers on the field and in the classroom and values leadership ability and dedication to team in addition to gridiron glory. Players were nominated by their universities to be recognized. The players will be recognized during the 2024 Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Hilton...