Local Government Editor | Miami Herald

I’ve spent 40 years in the news business.  My current job is assistant city editor at the Miami Herald, supervising the local government team.  I have a B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California.

I’ve spent most of my career on the city desk of daily newspapers, but early on, there was a six-month stint as editor of a tiny weekly and three years as a small-town radio newscaster. I was a freelancer and then a staff writer at the Sacramento Bee for about 15 years (some of that overlapping my time in radio), and a projects reporter at the Fresno Bee for two years.I moved to Florida in 1994. It was while I was a reporter at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale that I crossed over to the dark side and became an editor. I came to the Miami Herald in 2002 as an editor on the city desk, then spent seven years as travel editor. I returned to hard news, my first love, a year ago.

I still do occasional travel and food writing. Somewhere along the way, I wrote eight cookbooks. I am a much better writer now than I was before I was an editor.

mlambert@miamiherald.com

305-376-4939

@marjielambert