A former editor of the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Lexington Herald-Leader will receive the William Allen White Foundation’s national citation in February.

John S. Carroll has received many individual awards, and the Los Angeles Times won 13 Pulitzer Prizes during his five years as editor.

Carroll will receive the citation during a public ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.

Today, Carroll is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is writing a book.

Previous citation winners include columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., broadcaster Walter Cronkite, and newspaper reporter and editor Bob Woodward.