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Elizabeth Llorente

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As seen in: Medium, The New York Times, Fox News, HuffPost, New York Post, News.com.au, AL.com, NJ.com, The Star-Ledger, Military.com and
Covers:  immigration, cultural/race relations, cuba, cuban americans, hispanics, politics, human rights
Ex journo, now PR manager, Hackensack Meridian Health. Devoted mom. George Polk Awards board member, past winner. Bluesky: ElizabethLlorente.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Llorente’s Biography

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Elizabeth Llorente is Senior Reporter for Fox News Digital. She does deep dives into major issues of the day, as well lead investigative projects. Her specialties include immigration, the opioid epidemic and policies addressing it, and Cuba and Venezuela.

Llorente has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award and New Jersey Journalist of the Year.

While at the Bergen Record, one of New Jersey's major newspapers, she profiled dozens of ethnic communities, put a human face on complex …

Elizabeth Llorente’s Journalist Portfolio

Venezuela's Andean Hideaway

Venezuela's Andean Hideaway

By Elizabeth Llorente -- ALL year long, Caracas and Margarita Island swell with tourists from Latin America,…

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As doctors taper or end opioid prescriptions, many patients driven to despair, suicide

As doctors taper or end opioid prescriptions, many patients driven to despair, suicide

Doctors and medical establishments are sharply reducing doses of - or altogether no long prescribing -- pain …

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Doctors caught between struggling opioid patients and crackdown on prescriptions

Doctors caught between struggling opioid patients and crackdown on prescriptions

Doctors are opting to stop prescribing legal opioids - even to people who are left bedridden without them -- …

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Tough new opioid policies leave some cancer and post-surgery patients without painkillers

Tough new opioid policies leave some cancer and post-surgery patients without painkillers

Despite protestations that new federal and state hard lines on painkiller prescriptions do not affect cancer …

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Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown

Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown

The most urgently needed first step to addressing the misunderstandings about Centers for Disease and Prevent…

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Frustrated opioid patients speak out: 'I now buy heroin on the street'

Frustrated opioid patients speak out: 'I now buy heroin on the street'

Hundreds of people who reached out to Fox News through emails, and messages on social media, following the pu…

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Articles

Thousands of unaccompanied migrant kids settle in N.J. each year. But their trauma doesn’t end at the border.

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By Elizabeth Llorente
| NJ.com
Paola Benitez, a former unaccompanied child migrant, is now a paralegal. Last year, she interviewed clients at Casa de Esperanza in Bound Brook. Amanda Brown| For NJ Advance Med The two gunmen kept watch over the kidnapped teenagers, waiting for the ransoms to be paid. Six menacing pit bulls stood guard just feet away. Sign up for our Newsletter Agree to disagree, or disagree better?
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Inside N.J.’s in-home nursing shortage. A crisis intensifies as families beg for lifelines.

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By Elizabeth Llorente
| NJ.com
No one came to help Abi Insley once again. The 10-year-old needs a nurse by her side throughout the day, especially when she’s in school. But for the third time in a week last month, her nurse had to call out sick. And no replacement was available. It didn’t just mean the severely disabled Sicklerville girl missed school. It means she also missed crucial therapy she cannot do without.
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Parkway Rest Stop, Renamed for Celia Cruz, Prompts a Ride Down Memory Lane

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By Elizabeth Llorente
| New Jersey Monthly Magazine
When Governor Phil Murphy announced last year that nine Garden State Parkway rest stops would be named after prominent New Jerseyans, I was delighted to learn the Forked River service area would be named after a Cuban exile who held a special place in my late mother’s life: Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa. As Mami spent her days in our Union City walk-up in perpetual motion—scrubbing floors, polishing furniture and cooking—she’d snap out of homemaker mode when Celia came on the radio.
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Awards

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Top 20 Immigration Experts to Follow on Twitter

2013

Named by ABC News as one of the nation’s top 20 most influential voices on Twitter on the issue of immigration (was No. 4)

Peter Jennings Fellowship

2007 - Reporting on Constitutional Issues

The Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution is an annual event hosted by the National Constitution Center and funded initially by the Annenberg Foundation. Its mission is to help both professional journalists and students interested in journalism understand constitutional issues more deeply. Journalists selected as fellows produce a project touching on a constitutional issue.

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The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity

2006 - Book on Best Race and Ethnicity

One of the writers whose work is featured in the book is reporter Elizabeth Llorente, who shines a light on the often invisible lines that separate fear and bigotry, perception and reality, legitimate anger and ignorance-inspired bitterness in her series for The Bergen Record. She shows how strong, deep, on-the-ground reporting, informed by research and bolstered by the conscious development of key sources, can take a journalist past cliches, platitudes and shallow suspicions and into the undiscovered core of demographic change.

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2006 - Series Writing and Reporting

New Jersey Chapter Society Of Professional Journalists Excellence In Journalism For 2005 NJSPJ honors the best in reporting on a broad range of topics; as well as in photojournalism‚ cartooning‚ online writing‚ editing and more. Award given to Elizabeth Llorente and Miguel Perez for "Out of the Shadows."

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2006 - Omnibus Award

Elizabeth Llorente and Miguel Perez of The Record have won The Deadline Club's 2006 Omnibus Award for their series "Out of the Shadows." The series documented the effect of illegal immigration from Latin America on the Hispanic community in New Jersey in the wake of government efforts to expel foreigners deemed potential security threats. The Deadline Club Awards honor the best in New York based journalism — printed, broadcast or otherwise distributed in a calendar year.

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Lifetime Achievement Award

2004 - Collumbia University Graduate School of Journalism

"The award recognizes a variety of contributions that Llorente has made to the field of journalism, including a recent series, “Diverse and Divided,” which highlights the relations between African Americans and Hispanics in Paterson, N.J." Llorente said: “This award is a hearty embrace that says ‘You’ve hit the ball out of the park again and again, you’ve been consistent and you have set a standard.’ It is the kind of tribute that normally comes much later in a career."

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2003 - Deadline Club Award, Minority Issues

Winner The Record, Elizabeth Llorente, “Journey of Hope Ends in Despair” Judges’ Comments: "Through persistence, Llorente put a face on an invisible member of the community. Without her work, this story would not exist. Within this category, it was the standout because it used routine journalism tools to develop a story that matters to all communities."

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2000 - Deadline Club Award, Minority Issues

Elizabeth Llorente won the organization's Minority Issues Award for "Shackled in the Land of Hope," a series on the plight of immigrant asylum seekers who come to the United States seeking opportunity only to languish in federal detention centers.

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American Bar Association

1999 - Silver Gavel Award

Given for excellence in reporting on justice issues.

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George Polk Award

1996 - Investigative Journalism

Given for exposing abuses and inhumane conditions at an immigration detention center in New Jersey that housed mostly asylum seekers. The expose led to the change in management of the detention center, an investigation by U.S. Attorney General and national reforms.

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