H. Brandt Ayers
From the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the Ayers name has been synonymous with progressive journalism. H. Brandt “Brandy” Ayers graduated from the University of Alabama and later studied at Harvard and Columbia. He served as a Washington correspondent for the Raleigh Times (now the Raleigh News & Observer) and covered Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department for a news bureau serving newspapers in the South and the Southwest. He later led the Anniston Star during the civil rights era. He was founder and president of the L. Q. C. Lamar Society, an institutional expression of the New South movement.
Journalist Carol Nunnelley worked for newspapers in Montgomery, Mobile, and Birmingham from the 1960s through 2000. She wrote and edited prize-winning coverage of race relations, the environment, and the state’s challenges in education, poverty, and its justice system. She was managing editor of The Birmingham News and is the author of Building Trust in the News: 101+ Good Ideas for Editors from Editors and Janie Shores: Trailblazing Supreme Court Justice, a biography for young readers.
Journalist Carol Nunnelley worked for newspapers in Montgomery, Mobile, and Birmingham from the 1960s through 2000. She wrote and edited prize-winning coverage of race relations, the environment, and the state’s challenges in education, poverty, and its justice system. She was managing editor of The Birmingham News and is the author of Building Trust in the News: 101+ Good Ideas for Editors from Editors and Janie Shores: Trailblazing Supreme Court Justice, a biography for young readers.