John Yearwood on AVM

Award-winning multimedia journalist John Yearwood is World Editor of The Miami Herald and a Vice Chair of the Vienna-based International Press Institute, the world's oldest press-freedom organization. At The Herald, he directs the paper's national and international coverage. Under his leadership, the World Desk has won numerous awards, including the Arthur Ross Award for best coverage of Latin America. Yearwood’s leadership of newspaper’s Haiti earthquake coverage contributed to The Herald being named a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News.