Email Author Lisa Rab

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published April 7, 2011

  "School of Hard Knocks"

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published September 30, 2010

  "On the Down Low"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 9, 2010

  "Crash Course"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published July 23, 2009

  "Hello, My Name is Amigo"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 19, 2009

  "Newspapers Are Dead"

• 2008 - Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards/The Press Club of Cleveland

  "Contract Killing"

• 2007 - Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards/The Press Club of Cleveland, published February 15, 2006

  "Fall of the Fourth Reich"

• 2007 - Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards/The Press Club of Cleveland, published July 26, 2006

  "Screams in the Dark"

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2009 Stories by Lisa Rab

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  FEATURED STORY

  Speaking of Fish Wrappers: An Interview With the President of Village Voice Media

  published Nov 19, 2009

  After reading this week's cover story about the massive job losses and financial troubles at South Florida's daily newspapers, you may wonder how New Times is faring. Our tiny newsroom, not surprising... More >>

• Ex- Post Staffers Discuss Life After the Fish Wrapper

  published Nov 18, 2009

  This week's New Times cover story details the human cost of the massive layoffs that have hit South Florida's three major daily papers in the past couple of years. According to estimates by New Time... More >>

• Ex- Post Staffers Discuss Life After the Fish Wrapper

  published Nov 18, 2009

  This week's New Times cover story details the human cost of the massive layoffs that have hit South Florida's three major daily papers in the past couple of years. According to estimates by New Time... More >>

• The Rise and Fall of South Florida's Daily Newspapers

  published November 19, 2009

  A standing-room-only crowd attended the meeting where Rochelle Gilken decided to end her newspaper career. Behind the gleaming glass windows of... More >>

• Awards Dinner Illuminates Ties Among Rothstein, Lamberti, and the ADL

  published Nov 17, 2009

  On November 4, the day after alleged Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein returned from his trip to Morocco, a special party was held at the Westin Fort Lauderdale. Its attendance list reads like a who's who... More >>

• Awards Dinner Illuminates Ties Among Rothstein, Lamberti, and the ADL

  published Nov 17, 2009

  On November 4, the day after alleged Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein returned from his trip to Morocco, a special party was held at the Westin Fort Lauderdale. Its attendance list reads like a who's who... More >>

• Job Anxietyr You Must Work at the Palm Beach Post

  published Nov 13, 2009

  Someone in the Palm Beach Post marketing department has a cruel sense of irony. The paper's latest ad campaign -- now popping up in the paper, online, and on billboards around town -- strikes very clo... More >>

• Job Anxietyr You Must Work at the Palm Beach Post

  published Nov 13, 2009

  Someone in the Palm Beach Post marketing department has a cruel sense of irony. The paper's latest ad campaign -- now popping up in the paper, online, and on billboards around town -- strikes very clo... More >>

• On the Bread Line at the Norton: A Journalist's Story

  published Nov 13, 2009

  The Art After Dark event at the Norton Museum of Art last night had many highlights: free chocolate martinis, a tour of the New York, New York: The 20th Century exhibit, lovely guitar strumming by Mia... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  On the Bread Line at the Norton: A Journalist's Story

  published Nov 13, 2009

  The Art After Dark event at the Norton Museum of Art last night had many highlights: free chocolate martinis, a tour of the New York, New York: The 20th Century exhibit, lovely guitar strumming by Mia... More >>

• Rothstein's Donations to Jewish Community Center "Immaterial"

  published Nov 12, 2009

  One of the great ironies of Scott Rothstein's legacy in Broward County is the way he painted himself as such as a humanitarian. This spring, his Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was a major sponsor... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Rothstein's Donations to Jewish Community Center "Immaterial"

  published Nov 12, 2009

  One of the great ironies of Scott Rothstein's legacy in Broward County is the way he painted himself as such as a humanitarian. This spring, his Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was a major sponsor... More >>

• Broward Teachers Play Hardball With Scandal-Rocked District

  published Nov 10, 2009

  No more dragging a stack of papers home to grade at night while watching Glee. No more late afternoon conferences with parents, or volunteering to chaperone the math team's car wash -- at least not un... More >>

• Broward Teachers Play Hardball With Scandal-Rocked District

  published Nov 10, 2009

  No more dragging a stack of papers home to grade at night while watching Glee. No more late afternoon conferences with parents, or volunteering to chaperone the math team's car wash -- at least not un... More >>

• Why Palm Beach Should be Glad Kucinich Isn't Coming to Dinner

  published Nov 09, 2009

  Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio congressman known for his love of television cameras and his quixotic presidential bids, will no longer be the keynote speaker at this Saturday's Palm Beach County Democratic... More >>

• Why Palm Beach Should be Glad Kucinich Isn't Coming to Dinner

  published Nov 09, 2009

  Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio congressman known for his love of television cameras and his quixotic presidential bids, will no longer be the keynote speaker at this Saturday's Palm Beach County Democratic... More >>

• Thoughts on Integrity, From the Sentinel's Favorite Memo Man

  published Nov 06, 2009

  Lee Abrams is an infamous figure around the Sun-Sentinel newsroom. He's chief innovation officer for the Tribune Co., which owns the Sun-Sentinel, WSFL-TV (CW), the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune,... More >>

• Thoughts on Integrity, From the Sentinel's Favorite Memo Man

  published Nov 06, 2009

  Lee Abrams is an infamous figure around the Sun-Sentinel newsroom. He's chief innovation officer for the Tribune Co., which owns the Sun-Sentinel, WSFL-TV (CW), the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune,... More >>

• Palm Beach Post Holds Liquidation Sale

  published Nov 06, 2009

  No, the paper's not closing. But after losing hundreds of employees to layoffs and buyouts and shuttering its presses so the Sun-Sentinel could print the paper, the Palm Beach Post has a lot of extra ... More >>

• Palm Beach Post Holds Liquidation Sale

  published Nov 06, 2009

  No, the paper's not closing. But after losing hundreds of employees to layoffs and buyouts and shuttering its presses so the Sun-Sentinel could print the paper, the Palm Beach Post has a lot of extra ... More >>

• Rothstein's Jewish Legacy, Enshrined in Black and White

  published Nov 04, 2009

  South Florida's Jewish community just can't catch a break. First Bernie Madoff, now an alleged Ponzi scheme by Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein -- what givesrMadoff lured Jewish friends at the... More >>

• Rothstein's Jewish Legacy, Enshrined in Black and White

  published Nov 04, 2009

  South Florida's Jewish community just can't catch a break. First Bernie Madoff, now an alleged Ponzi scheme by Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein -- what givesrMadoff lured Jewish friends at the... More >>

• Searching for Democrats to Run Corruption County

  published Nov 03, 2009

  After watching three Republicans on the Palm Beach County Commission head to prison on corruption charges, one might imagine local Democratic operatives corking champagne bottles in anticipation of ne... More >>

• Searching for Democrats to Run Corruption County

  published Nov 03, 2009

  After watching three Republicans on the Palm Beach County Commission head to prison on corruption charges, one might imagine local Democratic operatives corking champagne bottles in anticipation of ne... More >>

• Cheers to the New Bulldog Blog in Town

  published Oct 30, 2009

  After 30 years in the South Florida news business, Dan Christensen isn't about to let one small layoff stop him from mining the bottomless pit of Broward County corruption.The veteran Daily Business R... More >>