Longtime LEX 18 journalist and anchor Nancy Cox is one of six set to be inducted into the 2026 class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, the University of Kentucky said in a release on Friday.
“Nancy Cox, a celebrated television journalist and longtime anchor at WLEX-TV whose award-winning reporting and community leadership have made her one of the most respected and recognizable figures in Kentucky broadcast news,” will receive the honor, the release wrote.
Other inductees in the class including Lexington Herald-Leader writer and sports columnist John Clay; veteran Herald-Leader reporter Bill Estep; The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times senior photographer Pat McDonogh; and Pulitzer-finalist investigative reporter John Winn Miller. Vanessa J. Gallman, who served as the editorial page editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader for more than two decades, is being awarded the honor posthumously…