Thank you for visiting the alumni page of The Miami Hurricane. Here, former writers, editors, photographers, designers, and contributors come together to stay connected with the newsroom that shaped them.
The Hurricane Alumni Board serves as a bridge between past and present, offering mentorship, preserving our journalistic legacy, and supporting the next generation of storytellers.
The goals of the Board are to help support The Hurricane and our individual journalists, assist with fundraising efforts, act as ambassadors between The Hurricane and the community, and, at times, help facilitate conversations with UM.
Members of the Board act as alumni advisors. Editorial control remains solely in the hands of the student editors of The Hurricane.
Meet the Alumni Board
Jamie Ostroff
Jamie has worked in front of and behind the camera since graduating from UM's Broadcast Journalism program in December 2009. Her career has taken her through newsrooms in Miami, Washington D.C., Idaho, Ohio and across the deep south, but South Florida called her back home in 2024. She now works as the Chief Investigative Reporter at WPTV in West Palm Beach, where she specializes in stories about legal affairs, public policy and exposing systemic failures. Her documentary, feature and breaking news reporting has earned multiple Emmy and state broadcasting awards.
Lisa Gibbs
Lisa Gibbs is president and CEO of the Pulitzer Center, a journalism and public engagement nonprofit. The Center provides grants and resources for ambitious reporting projects and operates programs that increase journalism’s reach and impact. Lisa joined the Center in 2024 from The Associated Press, where she was vice president of philanthropic development. This followed a career as a business journalist that included roles as AP’s global business editor and executive business editor of The Miami Herald. Lisa received her B.S. in communication and M.A. in liberal studies from the University of Miami. She was The Miami Hurricane’s editor-in-chief in 1985-1986. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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