Before moving to New Hampshire, he was a sportswriter at The Tampa Tribune and later served as city editor of the Clearwater Sun and the Tallahassee Democrat.
[2] Due to New Hampshire's early presidential primary and the candidates that make the rounds in the state, the Monitor enjoyed significant national exposure throughout Pride's tenure at the publication.
He completed a non-degree Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University during the 1984-1985 academic year[2] and received the National Press Foundation's Editor of the Year Award in 1987 for overseeing coverage of the death of Teacher in Space Project astronaut Christa McAuliffe, a longtime Concord resident, in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
[5] Those who worked in the Monitor newsroom under Pride's leadership include Bob Hohler of the Boston Globe, Serial host Sarah Koenig, New York Times reporter Margot Sanger-Katz and Pultizer-winning photographer Preston Gannaway.
[1][6] Pride was the co-editor, with Felice Belman, of The New Hampshire Century: Concord Monitor Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It (2001).