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Alfred A. Edmond Jr.
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Sr. VP/Editor-in-Chief, BlackEnterprise.com
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- Title:
- Sr. VP/Editor-in-Chief
- Company:
- Black Enterprise
- Company Website:
- http://www.blackenterprise.com
- Media Type:
- Publishing, eMedia, TV
- Media Realm:
- Consumer Media
- Home Region:
- Mid Atlantic
- I'm Looking For:
- Friends, Networking, Inspiration
- Professional Background: (Resume)
- Alfred Edmond Jr. is the editor-in-chief of BlackEnterprise.com and a senior vice president of Earl G. Graves Publishing Co. Inc., the web site’s parent company. He is responsible for the long-term planning and development of the web site's content, as well as the hiring and overall supervision of the editorial staff, which consists of editors, writers/bloggers, and contributing editors. Edmond sits on the BLACK ENTERPRISE editorial board and is also responsible for helping to set and enforce quality standards for the editorial content of the major franchises of Black Enterprise, including blackenterprise.com; Black Enterprise Magazine; Black Enterprise Magazine’s Keys to a Better Life podcast series; live networking events such as the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference and the Women of Power Summit; and the Our World with Black Enterprise and Black Enterprise Business Report television shows.
From 2000 through 2008, Edmond held the position of Senior Vice President/Editor-in-Chief of BLACK ENTERPRISE Magazine. During Edmond’s tenure as chief editor of BLACK ENTERPRISE (beginning in 1995, when Edmond was named executive editor), the magazine’s circulation more than doubled, to a rate base of 525,000 for 2008. In addition, the magazine has earned seven Folio: Editorial Excellence (Eddie) Awards in the business/finance consumer magazines category, a Griot Award from the New York Association of Black Journalists, and more than a dozen other editorial and design awards. A nationally recognized expert on business and economic trends, Edmond appears regularly on television and nationally syndicated radio, and is a highly sought-after public speaker. An award-winning reporter and editor, Edmond has been recognized by TJFR Business News Reporter as one of America’s 100 Most Influential Financial Journalists.
Edmond is a member and former board member of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), and has served as a screener for ASME’s National Magazine (Ellie) Awards for more than a decade, the last several years as a judging leader. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), a lifetime member of the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ), the Rutgers University Alumni Association, and a lifetime and founding member of the Rutgers African American Alumni Alliance (RAAA). He is also a charter member of the NABJ Business Writers Task Force. Edmond currently serves on the editorial advisory board of the Rutgers Alumni Magazine and the board of trustees of the Bridge Street Church Preparatory School in Brooklyn, New York. He has served as an adjunct professor in the journalism department at Rutgers University and as an instructor for the NYABJ High School Journalism Workshop at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus. In 2000, Edmond was recognized with the NYABJ’s Chapter Service Award.
- Personal Interests
- Reading, Football, Bodybuilding, Comic Books (Make Mine Marvel), Mentorship, Social Networking, Church Service, anything my kids are into.
A native of Long Branch, New Jersey, I am a 1996 inductee into the Long Branch High School Distinguished Alumni Academic Hall of Fame, a 2005 inductee into the RAAA African American Alumni Hall of Fame, and a 2007 inductee into the Loyal Sons & Daughters of Rutgers. I am a member of Agape Family Worship Center in Rahway, New Jersey. A health and fitness enthusiast, I participated in several competitions as a member of Natural Bodybuilding Inc., a drug-free bodybuilding organization, between 1999 and 2002.
- Education:
- B. A., Rutgers University, 1983
- Other Web Profile or Personal Web Site
- http://myspace.com/alfrededmondjr
- Other Web Profile URL or Personal Web Site
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/alfrededmondjr
- Relationship Status:
- Married
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