Lisa Irizarry
Business Reporterlisa.irizarry@newsday.comEducation: New York University
Lisa Irizarry covers business news with a focus on affordability issues. She joined Newsday in 2014 and wrote for Towns, the breaking news desk, and features before leaving in June 2020 to move out of state. Lisa returned to Long Island and rejoined the staff in May, 2023. Before Newsday, Irizarry was a reporter at The Star-Ledger and Burlington County Times in New Jersey and her work has appeared in magazines including Ebony, Life & Style, Travel + Leisure and Black Enterprise.
Lisa Irizarry's Work
- AI-generated videos used for investment scamsLisa IrizarryAugust 31, 2024 5:00 am
- Side hustles can pad income, but watch work-life balanceLisa IrizarryAugust 30, 2024 5:00 am
- Making a jewel of a business inspired by the oceanLisa IrizarryAugust 26, 2024 5:00 am
- LI couple's homegrown pickle business sells 1 million jars a yearLisa IrizarryAugust 24, 2024 5:00 am
- LI live event painter grew business one stroke at a timeLisa IrizarryAugust 16, 2024 5:00 am
- Meet 3 millennials running their Montauk family businessesLisa IrizarryAugust 15, 2024 5:00 am
- LI inventor's plate makes mealtime easierLisa IrizarryAugust 8, 2024 5:00 am
- Double the pet care at LI's Twins Veterinary HospitalLisa IrizarryAugust 5, 2024 5:00 am
- Here's how LIers are morphing their business trips for leisureLisa IrizarryJuly 25, 2024 5:00 am
- Workers would make concessions to save their jobsLisa IrizarryJuly 19, 2024 5:00 am
- Pet health insurance industry grows as vet bills riseLisa IrizarryJuly 11, 2024 5:00 am
- Some LI workers are living in their cars due to high cost of livingLisa IrizarryJune 30, 2024 5:00 am
- New Nassau County tourism bus hits the roadLisa IrizarryJune 28, 2024 5:00 am
- How longtime LI wedding florist stays in bloomLisa IrizarryJune 10, 2024 12:00 am
- At 30, she has a model businessLisa IrizarryJune 3, 2024 12:00 am
- LI youth jobs and political activism summit calls for actionLisa IrizarryMay 31, 2024 4:34 pm
- LI tree house designers take their business to new heightsLisa IrizarryMay 20, 2024 12:00 am
- LI produce business first in U.S. to use new AI productLisa IrizarryApril 29, 2024 5:00 am
- Please rewind: Some LI workers prefer doing things the old wayLisa IrizarryApril 25, 2024 5:00 am
- Daughter of construction worker builds her own place in the industryLisa IrizarryMarch 29, 2024 5:00 am
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