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On one hand, Garry Pierre-Pierre is living the career objective of many a seasoned journalist, serving as editor and publisher of his own newspaper. On the other, he has a frontline view and perspective of devastation in his homeland that few others currently reporting from Haiti can match.
The founder of the Haitian Times quickly transferred the paper's center of operations from an office in Brooklyn, N.Y., where it has churned out copy for the past decade, to his apartment in Port-au-Prince right after the massive earthquake Jan. 12. Several staffers accompanying him have filed stories and photos continuously on the haitiantimes.com Web site over the last two weeks.
"I've been through some rough parts of the world, covered civil wars in Africa," Pierre-Pierre said in a recent interview. "This is definitely the worst tragedy I've witnessed."
The 47-year-old Port-au-Prince native began his journalism career at The Ledger as a general assignment reporter in the Winter Haven bureau from January to May 1990. He graduated from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee in 1987, then joined the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa.
He later worked at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale and moved on to The New York Times, where he shared the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, before striking out on his own with the Haitian...