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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Haitian Times <publisher@haitiantimes.com>


The New York Association of Black Journalists

presents

The Second Annual

TRAILBLAZER AWARDS RECEPTION



TRAILBLAZER HONOREES:

Sharon Epperson, Correspondent, CNBC Business News

Marcus Mabry, Chief of Correspondents, Newsweek

Garry Pierre-Pierre, Publisher, Haitian Times



Host:

Comedian Kevin Williams



Raffle (Mets/Yankees Tickets, etc), Giveaways



Thursday, June 19th, 2003

7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Justin’s Bar and Restaurant

31 W. 21st Street, NY, NY 10010



Tickets:

NYABJ Active Member (one ticket) $35 in advance

Individual/On Site (one ticket) $50

Student (one ticket) $15



Via Mail:

Make checks payable to NYABJ and postmark by June 15th to:

NYABJ

c/o Noelle Elaine Media, Inc.

118 E. 28th St., Suite 207

NY, NY 10016



On-line Ticketing:

Non-members: http://www.ersvp.com/event.htm?event=10119

Members only: http://www.ersvp.com/event.htm?event=10120

(Membership will be verified)



Dress:

Business Attire



Direct questions and RSVP to Takita Mason at Noelle Elaine Media, Inc.,
via e-mail, tmason@noelle-elaine or phone, 646-424-9750.Visit
www.nyabj.org for more information.



*SPACE IS LIMITED*

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MORE ABOUT THE HONOREES



Garry Pierre-Pierre, Publisher, Haitian Times



A Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Garry Pierre-Pierre has more than
15 years experience as a journalist, including six years with the New
York Times. In his career, Mr. Pierre-Pierre has covered politics,
national and international events. Mr. Pierre-Pierre gained national
attention with his fresh and innovative coverage of Haiti during the
early 1990's as a reporter with the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. At the
New York Times, Mr. Pierre-Pierre has covered stories such as the World
Trade Center bombings, which won that paper a Pulitzer Prize for spot
news in 1993. in 1997, he was one of four New York Times reporters who
covered the fall of Congo's long time dicattor, Mobutu Sese Seko. In
addition to his journalism experience, Mr. Pierre-Pierre has studied
marketing and has worked on the Circulation department at the New York
Times. He has organized several training sessions for journalists in
Haiti. Mr. Pierre-Pierre has lectured widely on Haiti and is often
quoted by major news outlets such as the BB and the Los Angeles Times.
In 1999, Mr. Pierre-Pierre left the New York Times to start The Haitian
Times. The English language weekly publication has been profiled in
several newspapers and magazines, including The Miami Herald, Palm Beach
Post, Newsday, the New York Daily News and Brill's Content.



Sharon Epperson, CNBC Business News



Sharon Epperson, a veteran broadcast and print journalist with more than
ten years experience with national media outlets, has been a
correspondent at CNBC since 1996.


Epperson covers personal finance and appears throughout CNBC's Business
Day programming. Her "Financial Fitness" segments also air weekly on
CNBC's signature program, Business Center (Mon. – Fri., 5:00 p.m. - 6:30
p.m. ET). She can also be seen on NBC Weekend Nightly News, NBC Weekend
Today, Early Today, MSNBC network, and various NBC affiliates
nationwide.


In June 2003, Epperson received the Trailblazer of the Year Award from
the New York Association of Black Journalists, which recognizes the
achievements of young and mid-career professionals, and the All-Star
Award from the Association of Women in Communications, an award given to
women who work or live in the New York City area with outstanding
achievements in communications.


In April 2002, Black Enterprise, featured Epperson the cover of its
annual investment guide, "Financial News You Can Use" from television's
top commentators. In 2001, the Foundation of American Women in Radio and
Television selected her series on female CEOs, "Women at the Top," to
receive the prestigious Gracie Allen Award, and in 1999, her three-part
series on day trading won a Silver World Medal from the New York
Festivals, an international television programming competition. In
addition, for three consecutive years, Epperson achieved the New York
Association of Black Journalists' Excellence Award for Business
Reporting.


Epperson is also a personal finance columnist for Time. From 1993 to
1996, she covered business, culture, social issues and health for the
magazine. During that time, she worked with Time Inc.'s television
division, Time New Media, and was a contributor to The News Hour with
Jim Lehrer and NY 1 News. In 1995, while a correspondent for Time, she
received a first place honor from the National Association of Black
Journalists for team coverage of the magazine's cover story on the
Nation of Islam. Epperson has also written for The Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, Boston Globe and Pittsburgh Press.


Bringing her journalism experience to academia, Epperson is also an
adjunct instructor of international affairs at the School of
International Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she teaches a
course on professional development for graduate students interested in
careers in international media and communications.


Epperson holds a bachelor's degree in government and sociology from
Harvard University and a master's degree in international affairs from
Columbia University. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she lives in
New Rochelle, New York with her son and husband, Christopher John
Farley, who is also an award-winning journalist and novelist.



Marcus Mabry, Chief of Correspondents, Newsweek



Marcus Mabry is Chief of Correspondents for Newsweek magazine,
responsible for deploying and managing Newsweek’s more than 40 domestic
and international correspondents and contract stringers. Prior to being
named Chief of Correspondents in March 2002, Mabry was a senior editor
of Newsweek International. In June 2000, he completed the prestigious
Edward R. Murrow fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New
York. Previously, Mabry had been Johannesburg bureau chief since July
1996. Responsible for all of sub-Saharan Africa—and occasionally
Algeria—he reported on the rise of vigilantism in the new South Africa,
the growing market for mercenary soldiers in West Africa, the complex
dilemma of postwar Rwanda and the tumultuous revolutions in Zaire/Congo.


Before Johannesburg, Mabry was a Paris correspondent for three years.
While in the Paris bureau, he reported on topics ranging from French
politics to the civil war in Algeria, the Bosnian conflict and the rise
of Islamic fundamentalism around the world. His February 26, 1996 cover
story, "Street Culture," discussed a new creative energy bursting out of
France's multiethnic suburbs. He also co-wrote the comprehensive and
controversial May 9, 1994 cover story, "The Glory that was France,"
which examined France's loss of political influence and faltering sense
of national identity.

In April 1996, Mabry and colleague Bill Powell won the Overseas Press
Club's prestigious Morton Frank Award for Best Business Reporting for
their December 1995 cover story, "End of the Good Life?" which examined
the clash between European governments' budgetary austerity and their
citizens' widespread sense of entitlement. Mabry also won the New York
Association of Black Journalists award for Personal Commentary (1992),
and a Lincoln University Unity Award in Media for the May 6, 1991 story,
"The New Politics of Race." He was named a finalist for the 1991
American Society of Professional Journalists' Deadline Club Award for
"Endangered Dream" (December 3, 1990). Mabry wrote a memoir on race and
class in America titled "White Bucks and Blackeyed Peas" (Scribners,
1995)

Mabry joined Newsweek in July 1989 as an associate editor. He was named
Washington correspondent in January 1991, covering the State Department
(Asian and Latin American/Caribbean Affairs) and the Department of
Labor. Prior to joining the magazine he worked as a summer intern in
Newsweek's Atlanta bureau. He also held summer positions at The Boston
Globe and his hometown paper, The Trentonian.

Mabry, who is fluent in French, conceived, wrote, produced and narrated
a 30-minute documentary on African Americans, which aired in France in
November 1992 on TF1 (Télévision Française). He received B.A. degrees in
English and French literatures and International Relations from Stanford
University and a Master of Arts degree with distinction in English from
Stanford. He is Chairman of the Board of the Albert G. Oliver program, a
New York City non-profit that identifies, recruits and counsels talented
African-American and Latino public school students who enroll in the
nation’s best independent schools. He is a past National Secretary of
the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, a Term Member of
the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Council’s Meetings
Advisory Committee.



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