Bert Roughton, Jr.

Bert RoughtonBert is the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, since 2007, has been an award-winning journalist for more than three decades.

As a reporter, Roughton wrote about everything from plane crashes to the 1996 Olympic Games. As European correspondent for Cox Newspapers, Roughton covered the war in Kosovo and won a national Headliner award for covering the plight of African children orphaned by the AIDs epidemic.

As an editor, Roughton led the newspaper's 2005 coverage of the Fulton County Courthouse shooting, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of a national Headliner award for breaking news.