Liza Gross

Liza Gross is the executive director of the International Women's Media Foundation. Prior to joining the IWMF, Gross was managing editor/presentation and operations for The Miami Herald, where she was responsible for the newspaper's visual appearance, daily production and weekend news sections. Gross, who has almost 30 years of experience in journalism and communications, is a former executive managing editor of El Nuevo Día, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Puerto Rico, and a former publisher of Éxito, the Spanish-language daily of The Chicago Tribune.  

A native of Argentina, Gross was an instructor and editor for the Latin American Journalism Program, an educational initiative of Florida International University in Miami. She also served as a reporter and editor on the Latin America desk of the Associated Press in New York City, managing editor of Hispanic magazine, and executive editor of Times of the Americas, a Washington, D.C.-based bimonthly covering Latin America and the Caribbean.