For immediate release: April 27, 2007 Ed Kelley Joins Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Advisory Committee (Oklahoma City) --- Robert J. Ross, President and CEO of Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, announced today that Ed Kelley, Editor of The Oklahoman, has been named to the Advisory Committee of the Foundation. "Ed Kelley brings 33 years of journalistic experience to the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Advisory Committee," said Ross. "Ed will be a tremendous asset to the Foundation as we begin to develop a long term strategy to promote excellence in journalism and instill and encourage high ethical standards in all media across the United States." Kelley was named editor of The Oklahoman in April 2003, succeeding the late Edward L. Gaylord. Since joining the newspaper as a summer intern in 1974 he has served as editorial page editor, managing editor, Washington bureau chief, city editor, business editor and state roving reporter. In 1996 he was named national Editor of the Year by the Washington-based National Press Foundation for directing the newspaper’s coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2003. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and is a member of the professional advisory board at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from OU, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1975. Members of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Board of Directors are: Patrick T. Rooney, Robert J. Ross and William J. Ross, Oklahoma City; David O. Hogan, Tulsa; and Andrew W. Roff and J. Hugh Roff, Jr., Houston, TX. Members of the Advisory Committee are: Andy Barth, Baltimore, MD; Janet Cromley, Los Angeles, CA; Marian Cromley, Falls Church, VA; Kay Dyer, El Reno; John Greiner, Oklahoma City; and Andy Rieger, Norman. Current initiatives of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation focus on educating students, freedom of information, investigative reporting, diversity in the newsroom and news, First Amendment issues, electronic and new media, and public interest/public policy. To learn more about the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and its founder, Edith Kinney Gaylord, visit www.journalismfoundation.org. < back to press releases