Hazel Trice Edney

Hazel Trice Edney is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) News Service and BlackPressUSA.com. A 20-year Black Press veteran, she has covered Capitol Hill and national electoral politics for NNPA since 2000, including as an investigative reporter in NNPA's NorthStar Investigative Reporting program. Hazel was a 1999-2000 congressional fellow sponsored by the American Political Science Association. In the nine-month fellowship for journalists, she served in the personal office of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Hazel has a master’s degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was awarded the William S. Wasserman Jr. Fellowship on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. She reported for the Richmond Afro-American and the Richmond Free Press before she was awarded the Harvard fellowship in 1998.