Lisa Vives - Profile and Journalist Details
Find journalists that align with your industry, location and vision. Unlock Lisa Vives's full journalist profile, including location, coverage topics, current employer, biography and preferences. Sign up today and start building journalist relationships that fuel your startup's growth.
Get connected with journalists today
Lisa Vives
Verified
Contributor, Freelance
New York
Beats
Biography
As the Executive Director of Global Information Network (GIN), a nonprofit media company, I write and distribute Africa News in Brief, a weekly selection of major news developments for U.S. minority media readers of the Amsterdam News, Frost Illustrated, Carolina Peacemaker, Seattle Medium, Wilmington Journal), and for wire services InDepthNews.net, and TriceEdneyWire.com. I edit Africa Renewal (U.N. pub) following a stint at the U.N. office of Inter Press Service (IPS), a prize-winning developing world news service. My career in journalism was launched in Hudson County, NJ, where I was a general assignment reporter at the Jersey Journal responsible for coverage of the burgeoning Latino community being displaced by gentrification. From there, I took up an assignment with the Teamsters Union, Local 560, Union City, NJ, to start up a serious labor newspaper with coverage of the government-run trusteeship that addressed organized crime in the union's largest local. The paper was named the 560 Free Press. After several stints with labor publications, I began to curate news from Africa for the African-American media, leading to the launch of an African media center where I organized with African journalists an Africa Roundtable series - a public event with invited guests from the continent on current affairs. This developed into a collaboration with Sahara Reporters, a highly regarded Nigerian anti-corruption online news site. In addition to text for print media, I created an Africa radio feed for the Columbia University WKCR Africa Show which continues today. Prior to Africa, my focus was on human rights in Guatemala for which I created the Update on Guatemala on the extensive human rights violations in that country.
culture human rightsAfrican politics development issues
Entertainment gossip, sports, police beat,
Content
Company Info
Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States