About this talk
Executive editor of The News Journal in Wilmington, DE, David Ledford, shares ideas and visions for the digital future as it relates to delivering quality environmental journalism and communication.
About this speaker
David Ledford has served as vice president/news & executive editor of The News Journal in Wilmington, DE, since March, 2004.
He is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors and is past president of that organization. He has spoken on the digital delivery of news and information at workshops and conferences around the country.
The News Journal is the eighth newspaper at which Ledford has served.
David began his career as an intern at the Lewiston Morning Tribune (Lewiston, Idaho) in 1979 while earning a bachelor’s degree in English. After graduation in 1980, he moved to the Daily News, which covers the university communities of Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Wash., where he worked as a reporter one year before moving to The Spokesman-Review in Spokane as a roving reporter, and ultimately a projects reporter.
In 1985, Ledford returned to the Daily News as managing editor. In 1989, he moved to the East Coast to become city editor of The Trentonian in Trenton, N.J.
Less than two years later, in 1991, he returned to the West, becoming deputy editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, where he served until 1998.
That year he joined Gannett and moved to Sioux Falls, S.D., to become executive editor of the Argus Leader. In 2001 David took the top editor’s job at the News-Leader in Springfield, Mo.
And in March, 2004, he moved to his current post in Wilmington.
Ledford is married. He and his wife, Irene, have three children.
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