Enterprise Managing Editor Elizabeth Izzo
SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Daily Enterprise Managing Editor Elizabeth Izzo will speak at the Adirondack Center for Writing as part of its Friday Night Writes series next week.
Izzo, who recently earned the 2022 New York News Publishers Association award for Distinguished Editorial Writing and has been working in the journalism field since 2012, plans to share how she got into journalism, why she believes local newspapers and journalism are important, and share tips for writing editorials.
Izzo joined the Enterprise and its sister newspaper, the Lake Placid News, in 2019 as a staff writer covering Lake Placid and the broader Olympic Region. She also took on the Enterprise’s health beat at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Prior to joining the Enterprise, the Peru native covered the Essex County Board of Supervisors, the Clinton County Legislature, the city and town of Plattsburgh and a variety of other beats for another news outlet in the region; she wrote a weekly arts and entertainment column; she was the editor in chief of a quarterly folk music magazine; and she was a freelance music critic for an online publication.
In addition to her recent editorial award, Izzo won the New York News Publishers Association’s 2019 award for State Government Coverage; the New York Press Association’s 2021 award for Headline Writing; and Coverage of Agriculture, Best Obituaries, Sports Feature, Spot News Coverage and Picture Story awards from the New York Press Association in 2019.
The free event will start at 6 p.m. at ACW, located at 15 Broadway in Saranac Lake. For more information, visit adirondackcenterforwriting.org.