News Director, The Tennessean jbrett@gannett.com
nashville, tennessee, united states
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Claim your profileAudience-focused manager of multimedia teams of reporters, editors and freelancers who cover breaking news, courts and the criminal justice system, education and local government news and produce investigative, narrative and enterprise work. Associations Online News Association Society of Professional Journalists Atlanta Press Club Society for Features Journalism Academy of Women Leaders Junior League of Cobb-Marietta Junior League of Nashville Honors Georgia Associated Press Media Editors: Story of the year Georgia Associated Press Media Editors: First place, sportswriting Georgia Associated Press Media Editors: First place, feature writing Atlanta Press Club Award of Excellence: Finalist, feature writing Outstanding Individual Contribution Award: Women In Film & Television Atlanta YWCA of Northwest Georgia’s Tribute to Women of Achievement Georgia Trend's 40 Under 40 I've represented the AJC during appearances on the BBC, CNN, HLN, MSNBC, CNBC, Inside Edition, WABE and GPB (local NPR affiliates) B 98.5 FM, 92.9 FM, 95.5 FM/750 AM News Talk WSB, News Radio 106.7, 1160 AM and 1690 AM, along with Decatur Book Festival and SCAD Atlanta community events. I've been a panelist at the UGA Terry College of Business Professional Entertainment and Sports Association Summit and the Georgia Children’s Advocacy Network forum, "Kids and the “Screen World.” I have guest-lectured at Emory University, served as a fellow at Washington and Lee University's Institute on Journalism Ethics, led training on digital skills at NABJ and the Society for Features Journalism and served as a presenter at the PodAbility podcasting conference.






Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism at University Of North Carolina At Chapel HillGraduated: 1994