Lisa J. Huriash

A Broward native, Lisa J. Huriash decided at age 6 to become a news writer – at her hometown paper. Her Sun Sentinel career began a week after graduating from the University of Miami. She has covered crime, more than half a dozen cities, redevelopment, homeless issues, and previously wrote a kosher cooking column on the side.

She now writes about Broward County government.

She was part of the team that won the 2019 Pulitzer and Scripps Howard for Stoneman Douglas coverage. Huriash has also received numerous awards from the Florida Press Club and Society of Professional Journalists for stories that included the year in a life of a homeless man and whatever became of a second-grade class from 1936 during Broward's segregation.

There are stories that led to direct change such as one city returning water deposits it hadn't given residents for nine years, another city canceling a multimillion-dollar developer contract, and residents so riled about coverage that they formed a beach activist organization.