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About Howard

Howard is the director of business continuity and crisis management at ABC News in New York. A 35-year veteran of radio, television and newspapers, he is a two-time Emmy Award winner, and a recipient of The George Foster Peabody Award. He has worked domestically and internationally as a news producer, assignment editor, bureau chief, reporter and anchor, covering some of the biggest stories of our time, including the 9/11 attacks and the 2003 Northeast blackout.

A certified business continuity professional (CBCP), Howard is charged with maintaining operational resilience at all ABC News platforms. He also serves as an in-house consultant to the ABC Owned Television Station Group. Howard holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and an MBA in management and marketing from New York University.

He has been a featured speaker at numerous professional conferences and workshops, a guest lecturer at MIT, and is a member of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP), the Contingency Planning Exchange (CPE), the NorthEast Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (NEDRIX), the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).

Howard is the founder of the website, MediaDisasterPrep.com, and writes its companion blog, MediaDisasterPrep.wordpress.com. He is also a contributor to "Beyond Powerful Radio" by Valerie Geller. A married father of two, and a resident of New City, NY, Howard is fond of telling anyone who’ll listen that events are disasters only if you haven’t planned for them. His e-mail address is Howard.B.Price@abc.com. Reach him also on Twitter (@HBPrice and @mediadisaster) and on Facebook.

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