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Tom Gish was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was born on 28 January, 1926 in Seco, Kentucky, USA. He was the editor and publisher of The Mountain Eagle, a weekly newspaper in Letcher County, Kentucky, for more than 50 years.
Gish was a graduate of the University of Kentucky and served in the United States Navy during World War II. He began his career in journalism in 1948, when he joined The Mountain Eagle as a reporter. He was promoted to editor in 1953 and publisher in 1956.
Gish was known for his investigative reporting and his commitment to the people of Letcher County. He was a fierce advocate for the rights of the people of the county and was a vocal critic of the coal industry. He was also a strong supporter of civil rights and was a leader in the fight against poverty and injustice.
Gish was the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Press Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He was also inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2006.
Gish passed away on April 8, 2018 at the age of 92.
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28 January 1926 |
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28 January |
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Seco, Kentucky, USA |
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(2008-11-21) |
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Whitesburg, Kentucky, USA |
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United States |
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His wife is Pat Gish
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Gish died at age 82 on November 21, 2008, after having experienced kidney failure and heart problems.
The Kentucky -based Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues created the Tom and Pat Gish Award in 2005 to recognize rural journalists who "demonstrate courage, tenacity and integrity." The Gishes were honored by the Society of Professional Journalists with the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. They also received the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in 1983 and were profiled among "100 American Heroes" in a 1986 Special Issue of Newsweek. Pat and Tom were also profiled in Studs Terkel's 1983 book "American Dreams: Lost and Found" concerning their work as publishers of a small-town newspaper. Tom Gish received the Zenger Award from the University of Arizona in 1974 (between Katharine Graham of the Washington Post (1973) and Seymour Hersh of the New York Times (1975)). He was twice honored in the name of Elijah Parish Lovejoy—once from the University of Arizona (1975), and later from Colby College (2001). He also received the Environmental Policy Institute's Recognition for Coverage of Coalfields Issues in 1987.
An August 1974 firebombing destroyed $17,000 worth of the newspaper's equipment, doing only light structural damage to its facility, yet the local police department placed a condemnation order on the building. A police officer paid to have the building burnt down, after the paper had published articles criticizing treatment of youths by the local police force. Gish said that he had discovered that a coal company had funded the money to pay for the arson. The paper was published the next week, this time with the motto "It Still Screams". After several years of publishing under the masthead of "It Still Screams", the Mountain Eagle returned to its motto of "It Screams", which still remains in use.
Gish was a native of Seco, a coal camp near Whitesburg. He met his wife Pat while the two attended the University of Kentucky, where they both worked on The Kentucky Kernel, the school's student publication. Before purchasing the newspaper in 1956, Gish was the bureau chief in Frankfort, Kentucky for United Press International. His wife had been a reporter for The Lexington Leader (which later merged to become the Lexington Herald-Leader).
Tom Gish (January 28, 1926 – November 21, 2008) was an American newspaper reporter and editor, best known for his work as the owner and co-editor of The Mountain Eagle weekly newspaper alongside his wife, Pat Gish, in Whitesburg, the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, where his paper was the first in the eastern part of the state to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining.
