Investigative journalist and columnist
Julie Anna Lobbia was born and raised in Chicago, graduating from Loyola University Chicago with a political science degree, then earning a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She wrote briefly for The Chicago Tribune and for the Columbia Daily Tribune, then took a job at the alternative newspaper, the Riverfront Times in St. Louis, becoming managing editor. The Village Voice then noticed her work and offered her a job in New York. Since 1990, Lobbia was an editor and reporter for the Village Voice in New York. She got her start writing about housing issues as an intern at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1983, and later was an investigative reporter and managing editor of the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. Lobbia's articles in the Voice dealt with housing, community preservation, the elderly and immigrants. At the Riverfront Times, she wrote about black-on-black crime, black activism and racial imbalances in the judiciary.
The Newswomen's Club of New York awarded Lobbia a Front Page Award for her reporting on housing. The Greater St. Louis Association of Black
Journalists honored her four times for her work. She was also an avid cyclist with the New York Cycle Club. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer shortly after the Sept 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and succumbed to the disease on November 25th 2001at New York University Hospital Center at the age of 43
Survivors include husband Joseph Jesselli; her mother, Julia Lobbia; a brother and two sisters.
Investigative journalist and columnist
Julie Anna Lobbia was born and raised in Chicago, graduating from Loyola University Chicago with a political science degree, then earning a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She wrote briefly for The Chicago Tribune and for the Columbia Daily Tribune, then took a job at the alternative newspaper, the Riverfront Times in St. Louis, becoming managing editor. The Village Voice then noticed her work and offered her a job in New York. Since 1990, Lobbia was an editor and reporter for the Village Voice in New York. She got her start writing about housing issues as an intern at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1983, and later was an investigative reporter and managing editor of the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. Lobbia's articles in the Voice dealt with housing, community preservation, the elderly and immigrants. At the Riverfront Times, she wrote about black-on-black crime, black activism and racial imbalances in the judiciary.
The Newswomen's Club of New York awarded Lobbia a Front Page Award for her reporting on housing. The Greater St. Louis Association of Black
Journalists honored her four times for her work. She was also an avid cyclist with the New York Cycle Club. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer shortly after the Sept 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and succumbed to the disease on November 25th 2001at New York University Hospital Center at the age of 43
Survivors include husband Joseph Jesselli; her mother, Julia Lobbia; a brother and two sisters.
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