Garry Pierre-Pierre

founder The Haitian Times

Garry Pierre-Pierre, a Pulitzer Prize-winning multimedia journalist, is a leading voice on Haiti, the Haitian diaspora and community media. Garry founded The Haitian Times, which provides quality, nuanced information about Haiti and its diaspora. He was also a Sulzberger Executive Leadership fellow at Columbia University, where he explored ways to serve the Haitian diaspora worldwide.

A former reporter at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize, Garry is a recognized leader in media entrepreneurship circles. He is the co-founder and first executive director of the Center for Community Media at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. In 2011, he was elected president of the New York Press Association, the first person of color to serve in that role.

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