Valerie Helmbreck
Valerie Helmbreck is a group publisher and senior editor at PBP. She was a reporter for 15 years with Gannett Co., at the Wilmington News Journal, USA Today and the Gannett News Service, where she covered both features and news. In 1996, she won the Temple Press Free Speech Award, given annually to a single American journalist. She also won the “Best of Gannett Outstanding Achievement by an Individual Award,” the company’s highest honor for a working reporter and multiple Associated Press awards. She’s a proud member of the Fruit of the Month Club and the National Geographic Society.
