Journalists hail Charles Kinkead at thanksgiving service
VETERAN newspaper photo journalist, Charles Kinkead, known to some as ‘Gruesome’, was yesterday remembered for his ‘impeccable professionalism’ by members of the media fraternity at a thanksgiving service for his life at the St James Cathedral in Spanish Town.
President of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) Desmond Richards lauded his late colleague as someone who made “a sterling contribution to journalism”.
Also, one of Kinkead’s foremost contemporaries, Ken Chaplin, said: “He was a first class photographer and disciplined. And much of that discipline reflected in his work.”
Charles Harold Austin Kinkead, who was awarded the Order of Distinction for his work, in a career that spanned more than four decades, brought his craft to bear on the publication of a number of media companies, including the Gleaner and the now defunct Daily News.
