Connie Mayberry, Neighbor

Connie&#39;s journalism career began as a freelancer for Atlanta publications. A year later, she was hired as a general assignment reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution&#39;s Gwinnett Extra. She was accepted to graduate school and while attending Georgia State University, she went to work at the AJC&#39;s business department as an assistant to the paper&#39;s business columnist, Maria Saporta.<br><br>She then was assigned to work as a general assignment reporter for the business department during the 1996 Olympics. During that summer Connie reported business news highlights live to WSB Radio during the evening drive.<br><br>After a season as a GPTV &#34;Lawmaker,&#34; Connie spent a year at Prestige Vision, a Forsyth County cable system as its news director, anchor and main reporter. From there she went to work as the main anchor for the Chattanooga FOX affiliate, WDSI. She was a<br>managing editor, anchor and reporter there for nearly three years.<br><br>She spent two years in Los Angeles finishing her Master&#39;s thesis. It is there where she was put on rotation to correspond for CNN. In the summer of 2001, she came back to Atlanta, where she anchored for CNN&#39;s Headline News. Connie was on the air anchoring<br>the &#34;Road Warrior&#34; segment when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. She then covered transportation and aviation during the subsequent groundstop.<br><br>Connie is full-time instructor at Georgia Perimeter College where she teaches communication and journalism courses. Currently she is writing a book about customer service and its importance in corporate America called, &#34;No Problem&#34; and a biography<br>about the late actor, Heath Ledger.