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Lisa Napoli
Interim Morning Report Host and Senior Los Angeles Reporter
In over 20 years in journalism, Lisa Napoli has been a writer at CNN, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, an on-air correspondent for MSNBC, a columnist for MSNBC.com, and a producer (in various capacities) for News Corp. and for the home-shopping channel QVC.
Those are just the staff jobs.
Lisa has directed documentaries that have aired on public television, and written many news stories for a variety of publications, which her father dutifully archives in cardboard boxes.
Most recently, she worked for a start-up radio station called Kuzoo FM 90 in the formerly media-free Kingdom of Bhutan, a country between India and China.
Right now, she is writing a book chapter about the very first race car driver, Barney Oldfield, and planning what to serve at the weekly party she throws in downtown Los Angeles, where she is a contributing writer to her community newspaper, The Downtown News.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., she is a proud graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.
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"I disagree with Diana Nyad, who told Bob Moon today that Americans are not interested in Wimbledon because there are so few Americans playing. I love watching tennis, no matter who is playing. I have watched tennis for years, but the networks toy with us, creating drama rather than showing the match. Oftentimes, televised matches end precisely when the allotted time expires, even if they have to cut and splice. When they don't, as happened in a Nadal match last weekend, we were left hanging at the end of two sets, as NBC switched to women's golf. I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't switch to MSNBC as was suggested. It's enough to make me turn off the TV and read about the matches online."
