Condace Pressley, who is president of NABJ, is the assistant program director at WSB-AM in Atlanta. She joined WSB Radio in 1986 as a reporter/anchor. She has worked for two radio stations in Athens, Ga., and the Georgia Radio News Service in Atlanta. At WSB-AM Condace has been a reporter, anchor and morning news producer. She moved into management in 1988 as the news assignment editor, then was promoted to assistant news director. In 1999, she became the assistant program director at the station.

An award-winning journalist, Pressley has been honored by the Associated Press, the Society for Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi, the University
of Georgia and American Women in Radio and Television. She also has received an Edward R. Murrow Award. She serves on the board of directors of the Radio Television News Directors Association.

 

Garry Pierre-Pierre is editor/publisher of The Haitian Times. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Pierre-Pierre has more than 15 years experience as a journalist, including six years with the New York Times. Pierre-Pierre gained national attention with his fresh and innovative coverage of Haiti during the early 1990s as a reporter with the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

At the New York Times, he helped cover the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, which won the paper a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. In 1997, he was one of four Times reporters who covered the fall of Zaire's longtime dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko. He also has worked in the Circulation Department of the Times as a direct marketing coordiantor. In 1999, Pierre-Pierre left the Times to start the Haitian Times.

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