James D. Ewing (January 14, 1917 – January 21, 2002) was an American newspaper publisher, government reform advocate and philanthropist. He spent nearly 40 years as publisher and co-owner of The Keene Sentinel in Keene, New Hampshire. In 1984, Ewing, along with Thomas Winship, an editor at The Boston Globe, and George Krimsky, an Associated Press correspondent and editor, helped to establish the International Center for Journalists, a non-profit that works with journalists from all over the world. One notable trainee, who spent some of his time in training at the newspaper in 1987, was Hamid Karzai, who went on to become the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan. In 1981, Ewing was selected to be a nominating judge for Pulitzer Prizes in journalism. Ewing was inducted into the Newspaper Hall of Fame by the New England Newspaper & Press Association, recognized for his outstanding professionalism and accomplishments. Education James Dennis Ewing was born on January 14, 1917, in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were Oscar R. Ewing and Helen (Dennis) Ewing. He attended preparatory school at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and graduated from Princeton University in 1938. Ewing went on to attend Harvard Law School for one year. He received honorary degrees from Keene State College, Franklin Pierce College and the University of New Hampshire. Background and career After graduating from Princeton in 1938, Ewing attended Harvard Law for a year, before leaving to teach Latin and Greek at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. In 1942, after two years of teaching, he left to work for the National War Labor Board in Washington, D.C., during World War II. He met and married his wife, Ruth Dewing, in September 1943. Ewing had previously been denied enlistment into the Navy due to his eyesight, but was accepted on his second attempt and assigned to labor relations in Detroit. There, he and his wife met Russell H. Peters, a journalist who had worked with the Omaha Daily Bee and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Together, they formed a partnership and in 1946 they purchased the Bangor Daily Commercial (also known as the Bangor Evening Commercial), a newspaper in Maine. The Ewings became sole owners of the Bangor Commercial after Peters sold his interest to them in 1952. However, in January 1954 the operation was shuttered due to financial losses; publication of the Bangor Sunday Commercial lasted from 1953 to 1954. Shortly afterwards,