The former owner and publisher of the Princeton Times-Leader newspaper has a new role in communications for the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
Chip Hutcheson has been named the interim communications director for the KBC and began his duties last week. The position is familiar to Hutcheson, who has worked in the KBC’s communications department for the past two years.
He worked for 41 years as a newspaper publisher in Princeton and was the owner of The Princeton Leader from 1976 to 1992. He sold the paper to the Kentucky New Era Media Group and remained as publisher until he retired in 2017.
In 2012, Hutcheson was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
Hutcheson has served as the president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention and received its Integrity Award in 2016.
Chip and his wife, Karen, live in Louisville. Karen’s brother, Dr. Hershael York, is the pastor at Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort. Their father Wallace York was the minister of churches in Christian, Caldwell, and Lyon counties.
