UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A longtime journalist and newsroom leader who built his career success on an effective combination of hard and soft skills — and doing the right thing at the right time — will present the annual Oweida Lecture in Journalism Ethics in early April at Penn State.
Glenn Proctor, former editor/vice president of the Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch, will present the lecture at 7 p.m. April 5 in Freeman Auditorium of the HUB-Robeson Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Proctor is the founder and lead trainer for REDDjobb LLC, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He founded the company, a coaching and training firm with clients nationwide, after he retired from the Times Dispatch in 2011.
Proctor’s journalism career also included a decade with the Newark Star-Ledger, where he served as associate editor. In that role he led training, national recruiting, intern and personnel programs. Before that, as assistant managing editor-local news, he oversaw the paper’s bureaus throughout New Jersey.
Proctor also worked at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle in New York, serving as assistant managing editor; The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, as night editor/business editor; and at the Akron Beacon Journal, where he advanced from reporter to weekend editor and then night editor during a decade with the paper.
The Dr. N.N. Oweida Lecture in Journalism Ethics is supported by an endowment from Margaret L. Oweida in memory of her husband, the late Dr. N.N. Oweida, a surgeon from New Kensington, Pennsylvania.