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Updated June 25th, 2009
Outlook Elevates Jacobs
to Managing Editor
 Lisa Jacobs, who has guided
The Outlook’s schools coverage for
the past year, has been promoted to
the newly created position of managing
editor at the newspaper, it was
announced Tuesday by Publisher
Charlie Plowman.
“Lisa has done a wonderful job
for The Outlook and has a real passion
for her work,” Plowman said. “I
feel she is an exceptional asset to
The Outlook and, perhaps more
importantly, to our community.”
Jacobs, whose editorial career
has spanned more than 20 years, has
been a resident of La Cañada
Flintridge since 2000.
“When my family considered
moving to La Cañada nine years
ago, our real estate agent told me
about The Outlook,” Jacobs said.
“As I poured over the dozens of photos
of local students and the oodles
of beautifully designed ads, I knew
that this was, indeed, a special community,
and that The Outlook was a
special publication. I believe the
newspaper is light years ahead of its
time.”
Jacobs has put in many volunteer
hours at local schools, and
helped establish the student newspaper
at Palm Crest Elementary
School. She is the mother of three
children, all of whom have attended
Palm Crest and Flintridge Prep.
A native of Muskegon, Mich.,
Jacobs received a bachelor of arts
degree in journalism and English at
the University of Michigan and
began her newspaper career at a
community weekly in Palm Beach,
Fla.
She later became editorial manager
for Microsoft in the mid-1980s
when the eventual high-tech giant
was in its infancy.
She tells of her recent appearance
at La Cañada High School’s
eighth-grade career day. When students
were told that the company
also publishes the Pasadena
Outlook, they were taken aback.
“Amid cries of ‘They stole it!’ and
‘How can they do that?’ I tried in
vain to explain that the ‘they’ was
‘us,’ ” Jacobs said. “Many students
shook their heads. The Outlook,
they said, is ours.
“Indeed, it is.”
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