Health Editor & Night News Editor | Miami Herald

Joan Chrissos is a veteran journalist who has been part of Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Miami Herald for public service (Hurricane Andrew) and breaking news (Elian Gonzalez). Chrissos has won numerous awards for her writing and her editing. As features editor of The Miami Herald, The Herald’s features section was named one of the best in the country by the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors.

She has written about food, fitness, health, profiles, breaking news, politics and city government. As an editor, she has overseen The Herald’s food coverage, its home and design section, its features sections, its health and fitness coverage and breaking news.

She also loves to mentor students. She helped launch the South Florida News Service, the FIU program whereby students get their stories published in The Herald. She teaches a Writing Strategies class at FIU and oversees The Herald’s college intern program with students from FIU and the University of Miami.

In her spare time, she loves to cook, read and run half marathons. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in English from Lafayette College. She is married to Ken Roberts, publisher of World City, and has two sons, Cooper and Logan. Cooper is in Africa in the Peace Corps and Logan is teaching middle math to middle school students in Nashville through Teach for America.