Lisa Friedman Miner earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she served as editor of the Daily Illini. Before joining the Daily Herald, she interned at the Arizona Daily Star and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
She spent 30 years of her Daily Herald career working in the features department, first as a reporter and later editor. She was named a metro editor for news in 2016 and later assistant managing editor. As part of her duties, she envisioned and planned the Sunday editorial product and Sunday print improvements.
Miner became the newspaper’s managing editor a little more than two years ago.