Kenneth F. Bunting became the first full-time executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition in 2010. Before joining the NFOIC and the Missouri School of Journalism, he spent parts of four decades as a journalist, executive and newspaper industry leader. When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print publication in 2009, Bunting was associate publisher. Previously, he had been executive editor and managing editor. During Bunting’s 12-year tenure as the ranking editor, the "P-I" won more national and regional awards for journalistic excellence than at any other time in its 146-year history, including Pulitzer Prizes in 1999 and 2003. Bunting also worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he was senior editor, the Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Cincinnati Post, San Antonio Express-News and Corpus Christi Caller-Times. In 2004, Bunting was among five inaugural inductees into the Journalism Hall of Excellence at Texas Christian University, his alma mater. He has contributed to two books: an anthology, "The Passionate Editor," published in 2004, and a college media studies textbook, "An Ethics Trajectory: Visions of Media Past, Present and Yet to Come," 2008.