Carl Paul Janensch, Jr. (born November 26, 1938) is the former executive editor of The Courier-Journal, based in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also co-author of a play that has had several stagings. Since 2009 Janensch has been a professor emeritus of journalism at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, where he began teaching in 1995 and led the effort to create the graduate journalism program. He writes and delivers weekly commentaries and essays on media and other issues for commercial and public radio. He is the former president of the Associated Press Managing Editors (1989), a board member of the American Society of News Editors, and a Pulitzer Prize juror. Newspaper journalism career Janensch started as a cub police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, a cooperative news-gathering agency; he subsequently wrote radio newscasts for United Press International. Upon graduation from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Janensch landed his first real newspaper job working for Publisher Barry Bingham Sr. and Executive Editor Norman Isaacs at The Courier-Journal in Louisville. As a reporter, he covered civil rights including Martin Luther King's march to Selma, Alabama. He then served as Washington correspondent and city editor. In 1964, Janensch was a recipient of the Sevellon Brown Awards in the history of American journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Janensch defended and strengthened The Courier-Journals Ombudsman function after it became the first modern North American news organization to have one in 1967. Janensch left the Louisville newspapers in 1975 to become managing editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. While there, he had the sad duty of identifying the body in the Philadelphia morgue of one of his staffers, John S. Knight III, killed in a brutal stabbing. Janensch returned to the Louisville newspapers in 1976 to become managing editor of The Louisville Times, a now-defunct afternoon daily. He subsequently became managing editor of The Courier-Journal and then executive editor of The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. When he held that position, two Louisville staffers won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of refugee camps in Southeast Asia. He helped arrange for the Louisville newspapers to host the 50th anniversary convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors and two years later an annual meeting of the fledgling National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). He filled in for Barry Bingham Jr. as editor and publisher for nine months while Bingham took a sabbatical