It’s the Bluegrass State’s day to shine today.

Organizations
1. Kentucky Journalism Teacher’s Association
2. JEA Kentucky
3. Western Kentucky University Mark of Excellence Awards
4. Kentucky New Voices team led by Cooper Bass
5. Southern Interscholastic Press Association

Local Newspapers
6. Courier Journal
7. Herald Leader
8. LEO Weekly
9. The Paducah Sun
10. Bowling Green Daily
11. Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer
12. Elizabethtown News-Enterprize
13. Ashland Independent
14. The Advocate- Messenger
15. Commonwealth Journal
16. Kentucky New Era

Famous Kentucky Journalists
17. Hunter S. Thompson
18. Helen Thomas
19. Diane Sawyer
20. Bill Plaschke
21. Pamela Brown
22. Maxine Cheshire
23. Tony Snow
24. Dana Canedy
25. Bob Edwards
26. Moneta Sleet Jr.
27. Gene Graham
28. Bruce Johnson
29. Ted Poston
30. The Bingham Family
31. Silas House
32. Alice Allison Dunnigan
33. Robert Penn Warren
34. Duncan Hines
35. John Harwood
36. Sue Grafton

Kentucky Journalists of the Year
37. 2023 Brooklyn Sauer (Bullitt East High School, Mount Washington, KY) adviser: Larry Steinmetz
38. 2022 Keelin Davis (Bullitt East High School, Mount Washington, KY) adviser: Larry Steinmetz
39. 2021 Ella Olds (Bullitt East High School, Mount Washington, KY) adviser: Larry Steinmetz
40. 2020 Katie Huffman (Bullitt East High School, Mount Washington, KY) adviser: Larry Steinmetz
41. 2019 Piper Hansen (DuPont Manual High School, Louisville, KY) adviser: James Miller
42. 2018 Zach Combest (Bullitt East High School, Mount Washington, KY) adviser: Larry Steinmetz

Supreme Court Rulings
43. Branzburg v. Hayes (We’re sorry)

Famous People From Kentucky
44. President Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky
45. President Zachary Taylor was born in Virginia, but spent most of his formative years in Kentucky
46. Supreme Court Chief Justice Louis Brandeis
47. A.B.Happy Chandler – Governor and Major League Baseball Commissioner
48. Muhammed Ali – Greatest of all time
49. Henry Clay – Great Compromiser
50. Mitch McConnell – Republican Senate Leader
51. Fred M. Vinson – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
52. Daniel Boone
53. George Clooney
54. Rosemary Clooney
55. Tom Cruise
56. Johnny Depp
57. Florence Henderson
58. Ashley Judd
59. Jennifer Lawrence
60. Annie Potts
61. Rob Riggle
62. Gus Van Zant
63. Tyler Childers
64. Billy Ray Cyrus
65. Jack Harlow
66. The Judds
67. Loretta Lynn
68. Chris Stapleton

Fun Facts
69. Kentucky is one of four commonwealths in the nation.
70. Mammoth Cave is the largest cave system in the world.
71. The 3M plant in Cynthiana produces almost all of the world’s post-it notes.
72. Half of the US Treasury’s Gold is housed at Fort Knox. (6.2 Billion dollars)
73. There are more bourbon barrels than people in Kentucky.
74. Thunder over Louisville kicks off Derby season and is the largest fireworks display in the nation
75. The Kentucky Derby will be run for the 150th time this year.
76. The Boy Scouts of America Museum is in Murray.
77. Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio three years before Marconi.
78. Every Corvette is produced in Bowling Green.
79. The “Happy Birthday” song was written in Kentucky.
80. Mother’s Day originated in Kentucky.
81. Thomas Edison lived in Louisville and introduced his light bulb there.

Certified Journalism Educators
82. Angela St. Clair – Herff Jones
83. Wendy Turner – Paul Dunbar High School
84. Beth Brubaker – Ft. Thomas Highlands High School

Master Journalism Educator
85. Larry Steinmetz – Bullitt East High School

Good Eatin’ (and Drinkin’)
86. Kentucky Fried Chicken – Colonel Sanders is from Corbin
87. Yum Brand Foods (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell)
88. 86 total distilleries
89. 46 distilleries on the Bourbon Trail including Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark and Buffalo Trace
90. Kaelin’s Restaurant invented the cheeseburger
91. The hot brown was invented at the Brown Hotel in Louisville

Movies filmed in Kentucky
92. James Bond: Goldfinger
93. Rain Man
94. Coal Miner’s Daughter
95. Hillbilly Elegy
96. Seabiscuit
97. Secretariat
98. Stripes
99. Elizabethtown
100. The Insider