Harry Albright

Who is Harry Albright?

Harry James Albright was the director of Communications for the Friends World Committee for Consultation from 2008 to 2013, and editor of The Friend Magazine from 1997 to 2004. He is also the co-owner of a training and communications consultancy.

Albright was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Leland S. Albright Jr., a Canadian diplomat, and Mary Albright. He attended the International School of Geneva and Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario. He studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa.

He was a journalist at the Elmira, Ontario Independent, when it won Canada's most prestigious journalism prize, the Michener Award, in 1990. The small Ontario newspaper was honoured for its blanket coverage of a prolonged legal battle over contamination of the Elmira-St. Jacobs municipal water supply. The Independent was part of the North Waterloo Publishing group, and Albright worked on various other group titles. He was production manager for the Elora Sentinel and Fergus Thistle, and news editor of the agricultural newspaper, The Farmgate.