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Liz Balmaseda

Liz Balmaseda
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Liz Balmaseda

Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959, Puerto Padre, Cuba) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a writer for The Palm Beach Post and a former columnist for The Miami Herald. She was awarded her first Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1993 for her writings on the plight of Haitian refugees and the Cuban-American population. She shared a second Pulitzer for breaking-news reporting in 2001, for the coverage of the federal raid to seize refugee EliÁn GonzÁlez.

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Bill Greer, former Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post editor, dies at 65
Miami Herald, July 3, 2011
...of the great guidepost editors whose love of storytelling reinforced the reasons why I’m a journalist,” said Liz Balmaseda, food editor for the Post, who won a Pulitzer Prize at the Herald under Greer. “As an editor, he brought calm and focus to...
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Fun Tuna, May 29, 2011
...to uncover a grisly mass murder case in a town near the Mexico border.   ‘Sweet Mary’ Author:Liz Balmaseda Plot: A woman wrongly charged in a drug case seeks the real culprit in the first novel from the former Miami Herald columnist.  ...
Summer 2011 reading picks
Great Fun, May 29, 2011
...attempts to uncover a grisly mass murder case in a town near the Mexico border. ‘Sweet Mary’ Author:Liz Balmaseda Plot: A woman wrongly charged in a drug case seeks the real culprit in the first novel from the former Miami Herald columnist....