He took that from his father as they both were able to take on the reactionary forces from that period of time. "I've known Hodding since the the '60s and we have always been close friends," said Wilkie, who said he last chatted with Carter nearly a year ago. Wilkie most recently is known as a retired professor at the University of Mississippi and historian of the American South. Wilkie went on to an amazing career and covered Carter while at the Boston Globe as a White House reporter. He had a swashbuckling personality that energized the newsroom and made us all feel like we were on an important mission.”Ĭurtis Wilkie, a Greenville native, was the editor at the Clarksdale Press Register at the same time Carter was at the DDT. “He showed how you could be both a crusading, fear-no-one editor and a passionate advocate for your community. He wrote the story of Carter’s departure to Washington.“Hodding was a mentor to scores of young journalists in his years as editor in Greenville, and his inspiration was a primary reason I chose journalism as a career,” Gray said. Lloyd Gray, the former long-time editor of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo, worked for Carter in Greenville as a reporter in his first job after college. While at Knight, Carter displayed high-profile leadership in his efforts to communicate the value of philanthropy, marked by his inclusion in The NonProfit Times’ Power and Influence Top 50 list.Since then, Carter had lectured at universities throughout the nation and continued to do freelance work for the television and print media. He resigned the post in 1998 to become the president of the Knight Foundation.Under Carter, Knight heightened the impact of its grantmaking by increasing funding to the foundation’s signature journalism program as well as expanding its commitment to the 26 Knight communities. His most notable television work was as the host of the media criticism show "Inside Story" on PBS.īeginning in 1994, Carter served as the Knight Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland. Up until 1994, Carter held various positions for ABC, BBC, CBC, CNN, NBC and PBS including anchor, panelist and reporter. Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance both left the administration at the same time in opposition to the failed rescue of American hostages in Iran. In 1968, he co-chaired the "Loyal Democrats of Mississippi" that replaced Mississippi's previously all-white delegation.When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, Carter left his post in the government and moved into television as a major critic of Reagan’s policies. In the 1960s, Carter was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, both editorially and in political action. He was 88.Carter wrote the book "The South Strikes Back." He won the Sigma Delta Chi National Professional Journalism Society Award for Editorial Writing in 1961. He became a national figure with daily television briefings during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979-80. The former owner of the Greenville Delta Democrat Times, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, Carter was also Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs for the Jimmy Carter administration. His daughter, Margaret Carter Joseph, confirmed the news to the Clarion Ledger Friday morning. Journalist icon and Mississippian Hodding Carter III died Thursday at his home in North Carolina. View Gallery: Hodding Carter III | Photos
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