Director of the Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI)

​Is the President and CEO of Yearwood Media Group, a global consulting and conference moderating firm. He was head of IPI’s North America National Committee from 2013 to 2015. Yearwood was also the World Editor of the Miami Herald, and his coordination of the newspaper’s coverage of the Haiti earthquake contributed to the newspaper’s being named a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News. In March 2016, he left his post at the newspaper after 13 years.