Brandt Ayers is chairman of Consolidated Publishing Co. Inc. and publisher of The Anniston Star.
Mr. Ayers has been a member and Trustee of numerous organizations devoted to
foreign relations, including The Southern Center for International Studies,
the Inter-American and International Press Associations, The Century Foundation,
the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Ditchley Foundation. He
is a member of the advisory Committee to the Neiman Fellowship program at
Harvard, and is the founder of the World Affairs Journalism Fellowship program
which provides opportunity for heartland Editors to work and study abroad. Mr.
Ayers is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
Closer to home, Mr. Ayers holds an honorary doctorate from The University of
Alabama at Birmingham, is in the University of Alabama's Communications Hall
of Fame, and is in the Alabama Academy of Honor. He was a member of the
Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform, currently serves as co-chairman of the
Alabama Research Alliance and was the founding chairman of the Next Start
program which is designed to help students in Anniston with educational and
scholarship opportunities, tutoring and job shadowing.
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