Evansville Courier & Press Names Editor

Evansville, Ind. -- Tim Ethridge has been named editor of the Evansville Courier & Press.

Ethridge is an Evansville native who started his journalism career as a copy clerk and obituary writer at the Evansville Courier in 1975. After attending Indiana State University-Evansville (now the University of Southern Indiana), Ethridge worked as an education reporter and copy editor in Madisonville, Ky. before returning to Evansville in 1979.

After starting in news, Ethridge turned to sports, working his way from sports reporter to assistant sports editor at the Evansville Courier from 1979 to 1986. He then moved to the afternoon Evansville Press, where he led the sports department until 1998, when he moved to the Indianapolis News and Star.

While in Indianapolis, Ethridge worked as a copy editor and directed high school sports coverage. He was part of the planning and coverage teams for the Indianapolis 500, the Brickyard 400, the NBA Finals and the NCAA Final Four Men’s Basketball Tournament.

He returned to Evansville in 2000 as sports editor of the merged Courier & Press. During his tenure, the newspaper’s sports section has won numerous honors from the Hoosier State Press Association and the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors. Ethridge’s personal honors include recognition for columns, feature writing, breaking news coverage and headline writing.

Ethridge also has helped coordinate coverage efforts for Scripps newspapers and Web sites for the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami and the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis.