Ed Kelley

Ed Kelley is editor of The Washington Times newspaper. Kelley previously served as the editor of The Oklahoman. He was named editor of The Oklahoman in April 2003, succeeding the late Edward L. Gaylord. As editor he oversees both the news coverage and the opinion pages of the newspaper. He is a career employee of The Oklahoman and has filled a variety of editing and reporting positions since joining the newspaper as a summer intern in 1974. He has served as editorial page editor, managing editor, Washington bureau chief, city editor, business editor and state roving reporter. He was named national Editor of the Year in 1996 by the Washington-based National Press Foundation for directing the newspaper's coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Kelley was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2003. He served as a juror to the Pulitzer Prizes in 1998 and is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from OU, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1975. He was reared in Perry, where he got his first taste of newspapering by writing about sports events for his hometown newspaper, the Perry Daily Journal.