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He served as president of the NCEW in 1979 and was the first president of the NCEW Foundation, which supports NCEW programs, including an annual Minority Writers Seminar for opinion writers at newspapers and radio and television stations.

Mr.

Barnard was a founding member of the First Amendment Congress, a coalition of 20 national journalism and communications organizations that sponsored national, state and local congresses on media and First Amendment topics from 1979 through 1997.

Mr.

Barnard joined The Courier-Journal in 1963 as assistant managing editor.

He moved to the editorial staff as an associate editor in 1970 and became editorial page editor in 1971.

He was named associate editor of the newspaper's daily Forum page in 1988.

He began his journalism career in 1949 as a reporter at the Raleigh (N.C.) Times.

He later worked at the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal and the St.

Petersburg (Fla.) Times.

Mr.

Barnard was born in Wayne, Pa., on Aug.

2, 1926, and grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.

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