Harold (Hal) Morris

Journalist, Writer, Editor, Photographer

United States

Highly experienced journalist and editor based in Lexington, Ky., with significant marketing communication, photography, publication management and social media skills.
Contact: [email protected]

Portfolio

Why to hire a journalist

Poynter
03/15/2009
Ten Reasons You Should Hire a Journalist

Dear Potential Employer: Please accept this letter of recommendation for the journalist applying for your job opening. I know this is unorthodox -- a generic reference letter. But permit me to explain. Thousands of men and women who made journalism their vocation have lost their jobs.

Kentucky Alumni Association Stories/Videos

News from the Blue
06/16/2021
UKPH Dean Donna Arnett navigates pandemic, strives for a healthier Kentucky

By Hal MorrisUK Alumni Association Donna Arnett makes no bones about her goals for the UK College of Public Health. "We're a very ambitious college with a very ambitious agenda," says Arnett, the college's dean since 2016. UK College of Public Health Dean Donna Arnett The COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing to derail that agenda,...

News from the Blue
05/12/2021
Wilder Treadway '15: Covering a champion during a pandemic

Bay Area legends the Grateful Dead once sang "what a long, strange trip it's been." UK alumnus Wilder Treadway had his own long, strange trip with another Bay Area legend this past basketball season. Treadway, who graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in integrated strategic communications from the UK College of Communication and Information,...

News from the Blue
02/08/2021
UK alumna Alex Otte named national president of MADD

Alex Otte was not sure what her future held. A near-fatal boating crash due to an intoxicated boater turned her world upside down but also gave her a new purpose in life. Otte, who earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in political science from UK in December 2018, made history as the youngest...

News from the Blue
12/07/2020
Greg Page Scholarship carries on legacy and memory of UK pioneer

By Hal MorrisUK Alumni Association Greg Page was going to make history at the University of Kentucky.One of the first two African-American football players - along with Nate Northington - to sign with a Southeastern Conference School, Page never got to see his dream become a reality.

University of Kentucky Alumni Association
08/01/2020
Class of 1970 and 2020

Cover story on the UK Classes of 1970 and 2020

University of Kentucky Alumni Association
05/01/2020
UK Class of 1970 video

The UK classes of 1970 and 2020 will forever be connected, both denied a chance to walk across the stage and celebrate their accomplishments at their respective commencements. The Class of 1970 Golden Wildcat Reunion Committee wrote a letter to the Class of 2020, encouraging UK’s newest graduates and reminding them to think of all the good times they had in their years in Lexington.

News from the Blue
11/05/2018
Harry Clarke looks back on his years leading the Wildcat Marching Band

Note: The UK Alumni Band held its annual reunion this past weekend, with a reception Friday night and a tailgate and halftime performance on Saturday. It was also the 50th anniversary of Harry Clarke taking over as director of the Wildcat Marching Band. He recently spoke with us about taking over the band in 1968....

News from the Blue
04/08/2019
Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club proud of scholarship recipient von Schmeling

David Shelton '66 BE equates awarding scholarships to investing in the stock market. Then consider the Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club bullish on Anna von Schmeling. The UK senior, who graduates in May with a bachelor's degree in integrated strategic communications, von Schmeling is the only student the club has awarded a scholarship for all...

News from the Blue
03/12/2019
Wrights take bucket list trips with Traveling Wildcats, and they are not finished yet

Even as bucket list items, trying to pick a favorite Traveling Wildcats trip has proven to be an almost impossible task for University of Kentucky alumni George and Valerie Wright. The Wrights have taken four tours with Traveling Wildcats over the years - Sicily, the Galapagos Islands, Alaska and Churchill, Canada.

News from the Blue
02/06/2020
Brian Gorrell was proud to lead UK Alumni Pep Band for 25 years

Brian Gorrell had given a quarter century to the UK Alumni Pep Band as its director. Now he figured it was time for someone else to take the reins. Gorrell led the band for the last time at Kentucky's Jan. 11 game against Alabama, capping a 25year run leading a band that not only...

News from the Blue
06/06/2019
Central Kentucky Job Club panelists encourage job seekers

For job seekers, there are many benefits to attending the bimonthly meetings of the Central Kentucky Job Club. But mostly, said panelists at the May 28 meeting, Job Club gives attendees a sense of community, a support group for job seekers. "It was my lifeline to talk with human beings," says Anita Brubeck '83 CI,...

News from the Blue
12/11/2018
Passion Play a 'once in a lifetime opportunity' for UK alumna Holmes

For a trip that comes around just every 10 years, the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany could literally be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Lu Ann Holmes, a 1979 graduate from the College of Design, made it her mission to see the play with her mother.

UKNow
03/22/2017
Job Hunting? Job Club Teaches the New Skills Needed to Land a Dream Job

The skills needed to secure a job in today's market are not the same ones used even five years ago. The UK Alumni Association Career Services, UK Human Resources Career Development and Fayette County Extension Service combined their unique expertise to create the Job Club. Job seekers and employers alike attend Job Club meetings.

UK Alumni Association
UK Alumni Association - Ashley Lamb-Sinclair '05 '06 ED

By Hal Morris It's not really how a student learns as much as it is that they simply learn. That is what is important to Ashley Lamb-Sinclair '05 '06 ED. "I really think it has to do with my approach to education and how I view what education should be," says Lamb-Sinclair, an English and creative writing teacher at North Oldham High School in Goshen.

Kentucky Alumni Association
11/21/2015
UK Alumni Association - Taylor Blair

By Hal Morris When Taylor Blair '13 ED was a student at the University of Kentucky, he helped welcome prospective students on their campus tours. And he learned one thing: Above all else, the student comes first. He's taken that motto into his role as director of the University of Kentucky Visitor Center.

Freelance Work

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