As deputy managing editor of Lifestyles at The Dallas Morning News, Lisa Kresl supervises the journalists who produce the features and arts sections as well as GuideLive.com. She is the newsroom liaison for marketing and research on audience and readership. Kresl spearheaded the reinvention of the feature sections several times and led the department's transition to an integrated online newsroom.

A member of the company's Innovation Council, a cross-departmental team that developed and reviewed new product ideas, Kresl has been a leader in developing new products for niche audiences, including FD Luxe, a lucrative fashion monthly, in partnership with Fashion Editor Tracy Hayes, and Salut!, an annual wine and food publication, in partnership with Food Editor Cathy Barber.

She also worked on the launch team for Quick, the Dallas area’s tabloid news product for young readers. Under her leadership, the Lifestyles department has won numerous national awards. She is passionate about narrative writing.

A member of newspaper since 1990, Kresl has worked in a variety of positions in the Lifestyles department, from assistant travel editor to features editor. In 1993, she spent a year and a half living and writing in Klatovy, a small town in the Czech Republic. Before The Dallas Morning News, she worked for five years as a magazine editor at the innovative Whittle Communications.

Kresl is a graduate of the University of Florida, where she majored in magazine journalism and minored in French.