Lisa Green

Lisa Green, a journalist with more than 35 years of daily newspaper experience, is Managing Editor at The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne.

Lisa joined The Journal Gazette in as Business Editor in 2000 and was promoted to Assistant Managing Editor/Local News in 2013 when the business and metro reporting teams were combined into one department under her leadership. She was promoted to Managing Editor in December 2020.

Before joining the JG, Lisa spent 14 years as a reporter, a City Editor and Assistant Business Editor at The Rockford (Illinois) Register Star, which was owned by Gannett, Inc. She spent four months on loan as a reporter in the Money section at USA Today, also owned by Gannett.

Lisa spent more than 25 years as a workshop facilitator and eventually associate director of the Eastern Illinois University/Illinois Press Association’s summer High School Journalism Workshop for students. Lisa received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Eastern and in 2005 was recognized by the university’s Journalism Alumni Hall of Fame “for supporting and practicing the highest standards of journalism.”

She previously served on the board for the Indiana Associated Press Media Editors and was on the Newsroom Seminar Committee for the Hoosier State Press Association for more than 10 years.

She has held leadership roles at Greater Progressive Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, including with the church’s media-related ministries. For several years, she taught Junior Achievement and been a mentor to youth through Big Brothers and Big Sisters in Rockford and Fort Wayne. In 2021, Lisa was inducted into the Fort Wayne (IN) chapter of The Links, Incorporated, one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations.