Veteran newspaper editor retires after 40-year career

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - Bill Brown, a veteran journalist who was executive editor when the Alabama Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, has retired after a 40-year career. <br> <br> Brown, 61, who was associate editor of the Montgomery Advertiser when he retired March 31, edited newspapers in Florida and Georgia before coming to the Advertiser as managing editor in 1986. <br> <br> The next year, he became executive editor of the morning Advertiser and its sister afternoon paper, the Alabama Journal, which won the Pulitzer in general news reporting for its stories on the state&#39;s unusually high infant mortality rate. The Journal ceased publishing in 1993. <br> <br> Brown, who became associate editor in 1997, was executive editor of the Ledger-Enquirer in Columbus, Ga., before coming to Montgomery. <br> <br> He began his career in 1962 with the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, where he held various writing and editing positions, and later served as city editor and assistant managing editor of the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. <br> <br> A graduate of Louisiana State University, he is a member of LSU&#39;s journalism hall of fame.

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