By: (AP) Amanda Bennett, managing editor/projects at
The Oregonian of Portland, was named editor of the
Lexington Herald-Leader on Wednesday.
Bennett, 49, succeeds Pam Luecke as editor and senior vice president. Luecke, the first woman to hold the top editor's job at the
Herald-Leader, left this spring to teach journalism at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.
Bennett worked for
The Wall Street Journal for more than two decades, including a stint as Atlanta bureau chief, before becoming managing editor in Portland in 1998.
At the
Oregonian, she edited a six-part series on widespread abuses by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which won the Pulitzer Prize for public service this year. She also shared in the 1997 Pulitzer won by the
Journal for its AIDS coverage.
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