From Our Archive
Dec. 5, 1996
Clabes elected
president and CEO of Scripps Howard Foundation
CINCINNATI --
Judith G. Clabes, special projects director for the Scripps
newspaper division since September 1995, has been elected
president and chief executive officer of the Scripps Howard
Foundation. She succeeds Albert J. Schottelkotte, president
and CEO since 1986, who has been elected chairman of the
foundation board. The appointments are effective
today.
The Scripps Howard Foundation, a
non-profit, charitable organization, was created by the
company in 1962. It promotes excellence in journalism through
scholarships, grants and an annual awards program that is
recognized among the nation's most prestigious competitions.
In addition, the foundation financially supports literacy and
volunteer programs in communities where Scripps does business,
and administers the corporate giving program.
"Through her rich background as an
educator, as someone fiercely dedicated to community
involvement and as a journalist and editor on both the local
and national stage, Mrs. Clabes is ideally suited to lead the
foundation into the new century," said William R. Burleigh,
president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company.
Clabes joined Scripps in 1971 as
the Newspaper in Education program coordinator at The
Evansville (Ind.) Printing Corporation. She was soon promoted
to community affairs director and associate editor of The
Evansville Press and, in 1978, to editor of The Sunday Courier
& Press in Evansville. She became editor of The Kentucky
Post, based in Covington, in 1983 and continued in that
position until she moved to corporate headquarters in
Cincinnati. She has been a foundation trustee since 1990.
Until recently, she wrote a
nationally syndicated column that was distributed by Scripps
Howard News Service. Many of the columns were collected and
published in 1990 as books titled "By Judy! About Working Moms
and Other Human Things" and "Things I Haven't Finished Saying
Yet."
She's also authored "New
Guardians of the Press," a book that profiled women newspaper
editors; "Language Arts and the Disinterested Student," a
guide to using the newspaper as a teaching tool; and numerous
articles in professional publications and general circulation
newspapers.
She was graduated from the University
of Kentucky with a degree in English and journalism, and
received a master's degree in public administration from
Indiana State University. In 1986, she received an honorary
doctorate of law from the University of Southern Indiana, and
in 1990 she received an honorary doctorate of letters from the
University of Southern Indiana.
Her
professional affiliations include two terms on the board of
directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE),
service on the Pulitzer Prize Nominating Jury in 1984-85,
membership on ASNE's 1984 delegation to the Soviet Union, and
a term as president of the Kentucky Associated Press Editors
Association in 1985.
Clabes has
received widespread recognition for professional excellence
and community service, including the Greater Cincinnati YWCA's
Career Woman of Achievement Award; induction into the
University of Kentucky Hall of Distinguished Alumni; the
Northern Kentucky University Lincoln Award; and the Northern
Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Frontiersman Award.
Clabes, a native of Henderson, Ky., lives in Ft.
Mitchell, Ky., with her husband, Gene, a weekly newspaper
publisher. They have two sons, Joe and
Jake.
Contact: Sue Porter, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3030