Lisa Bannon, a senior reporter at The Wall Avenue Journal in New York, is leaving after 31 years.
She has been writing characteristic articles about client conduct, greater schooling, demographics and the affect of know-how on people.
She began as Italy correspondent in Milan in 1992. She coated the “Tangentopoli” political corruption scandals, the Nineteen Nineties crackdown on the Sicilian Mafia, and Italian tradition and society. She grew to become a senior particular author in Los Angeles in 1995 protecting leisure, wealth, and California life-style earlier than transferring to New York in 2004 to change into bureau chief for the retail and vogue group.
After a number of years as a web page one editor, she was named protection chief of the Journal’s Life & Arts part the place she oversaw a crew of editors and reporters protecting well being, journey, careers, private know-how and the humanities. In that function, she launched new columns, newsletters and digital tasks together with Grapevine, Household & Tech, Work & Life, Anatomy of a Exercise and Health Problem.
Her work as a reporter and editor has been acknowledged by the New York Press Membership, the Society of American Enterprise Editors and Writers and The Deadline Membership. A sequence she edited on the causes of the European debt disaster was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Worldwide Reporting in 2011.
