LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) — Mark Maynard, managing editor of Kentucky Today since 2017, was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame Thursday evening.
G. Sam Piatt’s “Outdoor Adventure” column in the May 5, 1974 edition of the Ashland Daily Independent carried an editor’s note calling it “the initial in a series.”
Mark Maynard needs no introduction around Ashland — and northeastern Kentucky, in general — but a few former colleagues felt like he deserved an induction .
Robert Atkins McCullough, Jr., was the son and grandson of newspapermen. At one point, McCullough’s family, along with the Norris family, owned the majority of stock in the Ashland Daily