Leada Gore

Leada Gore | lgore@al.com

Leada Gore has worked with AL.com for almost 11 years. She’s worked in Alabama journalism for more than 30 years, covering everything from high school football games and rattlesnake rodeos to major trials and presidential visits. She now works covering breaking and trending news, with a particular emphasis on government, finances and the things that impact you every day. Leada’s also an award winning yet retired columnist who occasionally entertains the idea of restarting only to talk herself out of it again. She is a past president of the Alabama Journalism Foundation and Alabama Press Association. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband and teenager daughter, attending her daughter’s sporting events, and trivia. She is a native of Birmingham and a graduate of the University of Montevallo.