Craig Durrett

Craig Walton Durrett (January 13, 1955 - May 11, 2015) was a journalist whose longest tenure was with The Shreveport Times in his adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana.

He cared about the news, but he care about people more. He approached each story and column with a sense of fairness and a kind heart ... He blessed countless people in his professional and personal life, Judy Pace Christie's analysis of journalist Craig Durrett
Biography
A native of El Dorado in Union County in southern Arkansas, Durrett was the only child of George Walton "Smiley" Durrett (1926-1977), originally from Panola County, Mississippi, and the former Henrietta Burge (born c. 1929). His parents married in Union County in 1950. His father, who died at the age of fifty, is interred at Arlington Memorial Park in El Dorado.
Durrett graduated in 1973 from El Dorado High School and in 1977 from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, where he studied under the noted journalism professor Wiley W. Hilburn, Jr.
After he retired from The Times in 2012, Durrett worked three years as assistant news director for KTBS-TV, the ABC outlet in Shreveport, which was established the year that Durrett was born.
A memorial service was held on May 16, 2015, at the First Presbyterian Church in Shreveport. delivered Meals on Wheels for the needy.
Former Shreveport Times editor Judy Pace Christie (born December 1956), who operates a consulting service, offered this analysis of Durrett: "He cared about the news, but he care about people more. He approached each story and column with a sense of fairness and a kind heart, committed to helping our community be well-informed. He blessed countless people in his professional and personal life."<ref name=cdurrett/>
Dan Turner, who was Durrett's editorial page assistant, called him "beautifully imperfect"; The Times humor columnist Teddy Allen, "magnificently flawed."<ref name=tallen/>

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