Inducted into MDDC’s Hall of Fame in 2013. This article is based on information submitted at the time.

James S. Keat is a retired newspaper editor. He is the SPJ Project Sunshine chair for Maryland. He was co-chair of the Freedom of Information Committee, Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association from 1993 to 1997 and now serves as a consultant to that committee. The association named its annual Freedom of Information Award (to the member paper that did the most for FOI) after him this year. He was a visiting instructor in journalism at Towson State University from 1995 to 1996 and in 2000. He received the Society of Professional Journalists First Amendment Award in 1991. From 1989 to 1991, he was chairman of an ad hoc editors group that worked for changes in Maryland

Open Meetings Law. He was a financial news reporter for the New York Herald Tribune from 1952 to 1953. He spent 39 years at The (Baltimore) Sun, from 1956 to 1995, and served as a reporter, foreign correspondent (New Delhi), editorial writer, Washington correspondent, founder of Perspective (Sunday news analysis) section, foreign editor, assistant managing editor, and editorial page coordinator.