We are pleased to announce our 2024 "Conversations with Rande" featured speaker is Girl Scout Alum, Columnist and Associate Editor at Newsday: Joye Brown

Joye Brown is a columnist and associate editor at Newsday. 

 She joined the Newsday Media Group in 1983, going on, over the years, to work as an assigning editor, newsroom manager of editorial staff development, editorial writer, and columnist.   

She has won several awards, including a 1984 Pulitzer Prize as part of a Newsday local reporting team;  and as a Pulitzer finalist in another Newsday team effort, on policing on Long Island.  In addition, she's won recognition from the New York Association of Black Journalists, the Long Island Press Club, the Deadline Club, the Society of Silurians, and a host of other journalism organizations.

Brown also has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women on Long island, among numerous other local and civic honors.

Before joining Newsday, Brown worked as an editor for the Mutual Broadcasting Company/Mutual Black Network in Washington, D.C. and as a reporter for the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. and The Chicago Tribune.

She is a native of Washington D.C. and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from The George Washington University.  She is a graduate of the Energeia Partnership at Molloy College.

Brown lives in Huntington with her husband Mark.  Both are hopeful their two children return to Long Island someday.