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Debra Gersh Hernandez bio

Published: January 21, 2005
Last Updated: January 21, 2005

Debra Gersh Hernandez joined ASNE's Sunshine Week initiative in November 2004 after nearly six years at the Newspaper Association of America, most recently as vice president of communications and editor of Presstime magazine, and before that as director of public relations.

Gersh Hernandez spent nearly 12 years as a writer and editor for Editor & Publisher magazine, first as an associate editor in the magazine’s New York City headquarters covering primarily advertising and marketing, but also general assignment stories. Later she became Washington editor covering the White House, the Supreme Court and Congress, as well as all federal agencies, the military, district courts, the U.S. Postal Service, and the local press, with an emphasis on the First Amendment, Freedom of Information and other issues of importance to newspapers.

Prior to joining E&P, she was a general assignment reporter for The Hudson Dispatch in Northern New Jersey. She also worked briefly for the American Advertising Federation in Washington.