Lisa Peakes
Lisa Peakes is the local host of NPR's All Things Considered on WUSF 89.7.
Lisa's radio career spans over 35 years and includes work in commercial pop, alternative and rock formats in New England, where she created and hosted programs featuring celtic, blues, and early jazz music.
She majored in acting at Emerson College in Boston, where she was in the national touring company of a production for deaf audiences and appeared in the Academy Award-winning film Equilibriumness.
Lisa is a graduate of Vermont College at Norwich University, where she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art.
In public radio, she’s received local and national awards for her work as a newscaster, and has been honored for her work as an investigative journalist. The Society of Professional Journalists recognized Lisa as Florida's Anchor of The Year in 2017 and her newscasts were chosen as the best in the Southern states by the SPJ in 2016 and 2018.
She is also a professioal figure athlete. You can contact her at 813-974-8656 or at lpeakes@wusf.org.
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Firefighters who lost colleagues and loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001 kept up with their work for many months following the attack. Kerry Sheridan tells what she learned about grief in writing about their work. -
Thursday's report from the Department of Health shows over 9,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus statewide. -
The positivity rate for first-time COVID-19 tests has been over 7% for the past 10 days. -
Deaths attributed to the coronavirus on Tuesday totaled 86, roughly double the number from the day before. -
The positivity rate for first-time COVID tests was over six percent for the eleventh straight day Thursday. -
The state got back the results for 56,648 tests Monday and of those tested for the first time, 8.34% were positive. -
Monday was the third straight day that statewide hospitalizations due to the virus increased by at least 100. Last week, daily hospitalization increases were largely in the double digits. -
New coronavirus infections in Florida shot up Thursday with 6,257 people testing positive since Wednesday - 1,824 more than the day before. -
The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus was over 4,000 for the fourth straight day Wednesday. -
Health officials reported 46 people died due to complications from the coronavirus since Sunday's report, and that pushed the statewide death toll past 17,000.
