Cheryl Everette is an editor and writer with over 20 years experience in online, newspaper and magazine publishing. Prior to joining Progressive Source, Everette was an editor at the Newark Star-Ledger where, among other duties, she coordinated the uploading of the newspaper’s feature content to www.NJ.com. Formerly, Everette was the Editorial Director for Gist Communications where she assembled and managed the editorial team that created TV-related reviews, articles, games, chat rooms and bulletin boards for the Webby-award winning site, www.gist.com, as well as for a dozen of Gist’s clients, including EchoStar’s satellite guide, Yahoo.com, AOL, Microsoft, NBC, CBS, USA Today, CNN and Hewlett-Packard.

Everette is a former editor of the New York Daily News where she held many positions including Sunday magazine editor, Assistant Features Editor and Lifestyle Editor. She was also the editor of New York Vue, the paper’s Sunday TV guide. Everette was Executive Editor of Essence magazine. Among the many departments she handled was the magazine’s Speak Out page where readers submitted opinion pieces about national issues.

Everette was a co-author of “The African Americans,” published by Viking Penguin. The book is a series of photos and essays on prominent African Americans in entertainment, sports, religion, civil rights and business.