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Lisa Lerer

Lisa Lerer is a political reporter who previously served as a correspondent for 2016 Presidential Candidate Hilary Clinton on the campaign trail. With her beautiful grin and excellent communication skills, National Political Reporter Lerer has captivated the hearts of millions. She is most famous for working as a reporter for The New York Times.

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Background and Age

Lisa Lerer was born in West Hartford, CT. Lisa grew up split between the two states of New York and Pennsylvania. She is the little girl of two authors, and as such, she has said she generally felt that she would have a career that included writing.

In the wake of doing great in high school, Lisa picked up a spot at the University of Pennsylvania. She has said that the work she did on her high school paper and the speech group helped her incredibly with her college application.

Lisa Lerer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Communications degree and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2017. She proceeded to go to the doctoral level college of Journalism at Columbia University, where she got her Master's qualification.

Marriage, Husband, and Kids

Since 2010, Lisa is married to Marcus Bleyer. Marc is a Columbia University graduate and has worked for the Deputy mayor's Office for Planning and Economic Development. The couple has two children. Lisa Lerer currently lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and two children.

Career and Net Worth

Lisa Lerer's first massive role out of University was as an online journalist with "The National Journal." She remained with that organization for one year before accepting a proposal as a columnist for the American Lawyer Magazine.

In September 2006, she started a short stint with Forbes, but she remained in that role for only a couple of months. In May 2007, she started working for The Politico as a staff writer and journalist. She has said this was the leading role that indeed given her sink her teeth access to political reporting, and she is hugely thankful for that.

Before joining The New York Times, Lisa Lerer worked for the Associated Press, covering politics, Congress, and the White House. She also wrote for Bloomberg News, Businessweek magazine, Bloomberg News, and Businessweek.

Lisa was a lead reporter covering the 2016 United States presidential race and the ensuing aftermath. She also researched the Democratic resistance to the Trump administration. Now that Lerer is working at The New York Times bureau in Washington D.C., Lerer writes political opinion stores covering current political and socioeconomic topics. She wrote about the passing of former President H.W. Bush and the history of his political career.

When Lisa joined the Politics Desk of The New York Times, Tom Wright-Piersanti came with her. He moved from Metro, where he had an incredible run with the New York Today bulletin. Tom joined the Politics Desk as their proofreader and night manager.

Lisa was a distinguished member of the 400-in number journalist network "JournoList" until it was shut in 2010. The gathering broadly coordinated to guarantee that positive messages were presented about Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, while less great things were distributed about Sarah Palin.


Quick Facts
Net Worth 2021: 700 thousand
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Last Modified: Feb 19 2023
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