Rich Whitt

Rich Whitt

A native of Eastern Kentucky, RICH WHITT (1945-2009) was a reporter for more than thirty years, during which time he won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting while reporting for The Courier-Journal in Louisville. Whitt attended the University of Kentucky and was inducted into the school’s Journalism Hall of Fame in 1995. He lived in Georgia since 1989 and reported on state and local government for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before retiring in 2007.