Garry D. Howard
Director of Corporate Initiatives @American City Business Journals
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Corporate Initiatives @American City Business Journals
Charlotte, NC, US
Responsible for a number of critical programs across the entire spectrum of American City Business Journals operating units and corporate departments, most notably national internship program and diversity issues ranging from staffing to content.American City Business Journals is the nation\'s largest publisher of local business news and information, deploying more than 500 journalists across 43 major U.S. cities reaching 13 million business professionals. ACBJ offers specialty sites & publications devoted to women, millennials, sports business readers and classic car enthusiasts. Bizwomen.com, Bizjournals.com, Sportsbusinessjournal.com, Hemmings.com, Streetwise.com
EDUCATION
The Lawrenceville School
Prep School Diploma, Academic
Lehigh University
B.A., Journalism
SKILLS
ABOUT GARRY D. HOWARD
Raised by Ann Boone Howard, Garry is a graduate of Lehigh University and The Lawrenceville School (1977), where he received a four-year academic scholarship through the A Better Chance Program. Garry began his journalism career at the Trenton Times as a Sports Reporter.He worked as an obituary, police and municipal government reporter at The Home News, in New Brunswick, N.J, before joining the Rochester Times-Union, Rochester, N.Y, as a Sports Copy Editor in 1985.Garry left Rochester in 1986 to join the St. Petersburg Independent as a Sports Copy Editor. After the merger with the St. Petersburg Times, he worked as the Prep Design Editor.Garry left St. Pete to join The Philadelphia Inquirer as a Sports Copy Editor in 1987. He was promoted three times to Deputy Sports Editor.He left The Inquirer in 1994 to accept the Executive Sports Editor’s position at the Milwaukee Journal, becoming the only African-American Sports Editor at a major metropolitan daily at that time.The Journal merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel in April of 1995 and Garry was named Senior Editor of the new, combined sports department at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He was subsequently promoted to Assistant Managing Editor/Sports in left the Journal Sentinel in Dec. 2010 to accept the position as Editor in Chief with Sporting News, where he was responsible for editorial operations before leaving in Dec. 2013.Garry was named Director of Corporate Initiatives at American City Business Journals in April of 2014, reporting directly to CEO Whitney Shaw and CFO Kirk Shaw. Garry is a Past President of the Associated Press Sports Editors (20••••10) and was the first African-American to hold that position in the 44-year history of the organization. Garry served as President of the NABJ Sports Task Force from was inducted into the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame in 2017 and then the National Association of Black Journalists\' Hall of Fame in August of 2019.
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