Lisa Getter is an American investigative journalist. She won the 1995 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, with

Lizette Alvarez Lizette Alvarez (born October 30, 1964) is an American journalist, and has worked for more than two decades with ''The New York Times''. She has served as the Miami bureau chief since January 2011. Alvarez has been a reporter for the ''New York Da ...

. Her coverage of

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contributed to the

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received by ''

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, helping overturn the mayoral election for fraud. While at the ''Herald'' she was also a Pulitzer finalist for General News Reporting in 1989 and for Investigative Reporting in 1998.

Life

After growing up in the suburbs of New York City, she graduated from

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, with a B.S. in journalism. At Northwestern she was one of three students who founded the literary magazine ''Helicon''. Getter was an investigative reporter for ''The Miami Herald'', and the ''

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'' and a 1995

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at Harvard University. She has worked as a

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columnist and at Bloomberg Government, focusing on government influence on the financial sector. Getter has also served on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Getter, Lisa American women journalists Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners Medill School of Journalism alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women