Tom Eblen is a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the Herald-Leader’s managing editor from 1998 to 2008. Tom returned to his hometown in 1998 after 14 years with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was a regional/national reporter, a business reporter and editor, and an Olympics reporter and editor. Before that, he spent five years at The Associated Press, where he was a statehouse reporter in Nashville and correspondent in charge of the Knoxville bureau. Tom is a former board member of Associated Press Managing Editors. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, he was editor of the College Heights Herald. Tom taught journalism ethics at the University of Kentucky for four years and has been a writing coach at The Mountain Workshops a dozen times. He and his wife, Becky, have two grown daughters, Mollie and Shannon.
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