Garry Pierre-Pierre

Garry Pierre-Pierre is a Pulitzer Prize winning, multi-media and entrepreneurial journalist.

Pierre-Pierre is the executive director of the Community Reporting Alliance and founder of the City University Graduate School of Journalism ‘s Center for Community and Ethnic Media. He is also the co-host of the show Independent Sources on CUNY TV.

He is the founder of The Haitian Times, an award winning English language newspaper based in Brooklyn that is considered one of the most important news sources for the Haitian Diaspora.

Pierre-Pierre spent six years as a staff reporter at the New York Times where he covered the New York Metropolitan area with special assignments in Africa and the Caribbean.  He was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news for the New York Times coverage of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing.

Prior to that Pierre-Pierre was a reporter at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Lakeland Ledger.  He has also written for the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian, among many other national and international publications. Pierre-Pierre graduated with a degree in History and Economics from Florida A&M University. After graduating, Pierre-Pierre spent two years working in Togo and Benin West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer.  He is considered as a foremost authority in ethnic media and has lectured at Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia among many other colleges. A native of Haiti, Pierre-Pierre is the author of “30 Seconds… The Quake that destroyed Haiti”, a book of photography that illustrates the wreckage of  the January 2010 earthquake across Haiti.