Lisa Brenner Homepage Reporter, Breaking News
Lisa Brenner joined KPCC in December 2011. Prior to that she led content direction for a top Los Angeles city blog as Co-Editor of LAist, where she had been the Music Editor years earlier.
Brenner has written and produced arts, culture and news content for a number of print and online publications including MTV, Glamour and LA.com, where she previously served as Music Editor and Managing Editor of the entertainment and lifestyle website.
She worked on the 20th Century Fox studio lot in creative licensing for Fox Music publishing where she co-created the department's first online store and mined the musical catalogue of film scores, TV themes and soundtrack assets for promotional samplers, boxed sets and placement packages. Prior to Fox, she coordinated large-scale film, commercial and music video productions.
Brenner earned a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in Media Studies with an emphasis in film and television. Her dad says she majored in watching TV. He's not wrong.
Stories by Lisa Brenner
'Cinnamon Challenge': Dangerous fad you didn't know about that's hopefully over
Learn more about putting cinnamon in your lungs and why that's bad.
Reason #22 not to eat your pet's food: Salmonella scare expands 'Natura' recall (Product list)
They're serious. Dry food and treats. All sizes. All products. All varieties. All UPCs. All lot codes. Click to see the complete list.
Boston Marathon explosions: Where to watch live video of the news online
Authorities are instructing people in the residential neighborhood of Watertown, Massachusetts to stay inside amidst a continuing manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Chinese TV casts actors to join Marky Mark and the clunky bunch in 'Transformers 4'
Ability to turn into a laser-fighting robot race car is neither required, nor encouraged.
Zoo babies! LA Zoo welcomes the tiny endangered faces (and giant eyes) of 5 Peninsular pronghorns
The Los Angeles Zoo has been visited by some very fancy storks this year, and officials have announced a few of the collection's most notable births so far.
How Twitter's new music platform works. And how it can humiliate you
Twitter's it-took-so-long-we-almost-gave-up-on-it music service arrived Thursday in a shiny, boxy layout that allows people to easily find music and share via iTunes, Spotify and Rdio.
More can, less beer? LA brewery among 1st to package Budweiser 'bowtie' cans
Despite a hole in the "bowtie camera" market, Anheuser-Busch has put their money behind developing a "bowtie beer can" and will soon be introducing the new shape of Budweiser to the public.
Boston Marathon bombings: FBI denies arrest made; CNN, AP walk back earlier reports
Despite reports on CNN and by the AP saying otherwise, no arrests were made in the Boston Marathon bombings when CNN and AP reported there were, according to the FBI and the Boston Police Department.
Public Radio Tattoos: 'This American Life' as a bulldog soldier or anchor-riding mermaid
NPR, WNYC, WHYY and This American Life collaborated on a tough and temporary vintage-inspired tattoo collection designed by real tattoo artists.
This hybrid plane might be the secret to cleaner, quieter flying
The futuristic X-48 is designed with no tail, a flattened fuselage and engines mounted on top. The concept stems from studies for commercial planes that could be flying high in the next 20 years.
Boston Marathon bombings Rumor Control: Man on the roof, 'false flag' (Updated)
As news broke of the horrific bombings in Boston Monday, a lot of misinformation found its way onto the Internet. We dig deep to bring you the reality.
Meningitis warning: Officials concerned after death of West Hollywood man
West Hollywood Councilman John Duran said officials don't want to cause panic, but are working to avoid delays in meningitis testing and treatment after Brett Shaad's death.
Coachella 2013: About last night, a giant snail, and how Daft Punk stole the show
KPCC's Ben Bergman sums up the first night's performances with a tidy "Jurassic 5 returns, Stone Roses fall flat."
How accurate is this video? What French TV thought of Los Angeles in 1969
Narrated with cool pity as a cautionary tale for the future of European cities, the urban profile features closeups of abandoned armchairs by the beach and "a blue, flat city," observed in captioned voiceover.
(Live video) Coachella 2013, 1st weekend, 1st day: Welcome! Now wait in line
Ben Bergman is our man on the ground. Soon the sun will own him, but here is his first, and likely his most lucid, transmission from Indio, CA.
