Can’t Get Enough   

At age 60, Charles B. Camp leaves a senior editing job at the Dallas Morning News to become chief projects reporter at Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader.

Forty years into the business, Charles B. Camp says good-bye to his big-city editing job at the Dallas Morning News for a reporting gig in Lexington, Kentucky. Camp, 60, is the new chief projects reporter at Knight Ridder's Herald-Leader, working for a woman he once mentored. Amanda Bennett, who took over as editor last year (see Bylines, October), was just 27 when she went to work for Camp, then Detroit bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, the paper where he spent most of his career. "He still...gets so excited about stories that he can't go home at night, and he loves teaching and working with young people," Bennett says. She told Camp about the job but stayed out of the hiring process. "I looked the gift horse in the mouth and said, 'I'll take it,' " says Assistant Managing Editor for Projects John Voskuhl. Camp, who's taking a bit of a pay cut from his Dallas job as senior editor for business news, says the Lexington newsroom is "energized." "They've got a really kind of upbeat, can-do attitude," he says. "I'm charged up. I'm glad they're going to let me in on their fun."