New scholarship honors the memory of late KC Star opinion editor Michael Lindenberger

Michael Lindenberger was The Star’s opinion editor for only a few months last year before his untimely death in December at age 51. Though his time in Kansas City was short, his energy and enthusiasm will always stay with the colleagues who were lucky enough to know him.

Today, his legacy will live on for future generations of journalists devoted to strengthening our democracy.

The Kentucky native and Pulitzer Prize winner earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a law degree from the University of Louisville. That institution has created the Michael A. Lindenberger Memorial Scholarship to benefit student journalists of the independent Louisville Cardinal newspaper, where Michael served editor in chief in the mid-1990s.

Visit give.louisville.edu/lindenberger to donate online.

To give by mail, please make your check payable to the following:

University of Louisville Foundation, Inc.

P.O. Box 772050

Chicago, IL 60677-2050

Please be sure to include “E2384 - Michael Lindenberger Memorial Scholarship” in the check memo line.

The University of Louisville Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and all gifts are tax-deductible.