A day in the life of the Miami Herald's business editor

The Miami Hurricane, the student newspaper at the University of Miami, has a profile of Miami Herald executive business editor Lisa Gibbs in its Tuesday paper that looks at her average day.

Veronica Sepe wrote, “Every Monday afternoon she puts those leadership skills to work. Gibbs sits in her office with the various editors of the business section as they plan what articles they want in the paper that week.

“The tone is relaxed and the staff makes jokes. While Gibbs sits at the head of the room, she does not rule with an iron fist, but lets the conversation flow to form ideas-consensus is the norm for the business section.

“‘The staff is very collegial,’ said Mary Rajkumar, deputy editor of the business section. ‘Lisa and I work well together. She’s a great boss.’

“Prior to her work at The Herald, Gibbs wrote for Money Magazine, but the atmosphere was different from what she does now.

“She worked at home in order to be with her two young children, now 10 and 12, a job feature that was very important to her at the time.

“‘I worked at home until two years ago,’ Gibbs said. ‘You can make your career work according to your personal goals.’

“Her work now keeps her away from home more than it ever did when her children were growing up, but Gibbs felt it was a choice she had to make.”

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