Nissa Darbonne is editor-at-large for Hart Energy Publishing LP’s Oil and Gas Investor group, which consists of Oil and Gas Investor magazine; the newsletters A&D Watch and Oil and Gas Investor This Week, OilandGasInvestor.com Today and UGcenter.com Today; and the websites www.OilandGasInvestor.com, www.UGcenter.com and www.A-Dcenter.com. She joined Hart in 1998 as managing editor after nine years in news reporting for The Daily Advertiser newspaper in Lafayette, Louisiana, the last two years as business editor. Most recently, she was e-editor and director of e-content for Hart, and previously was executive editor of the Oil and Gas Investor group. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (fka The University of Southwestern Louisiana), where her studies were focused on journalism and English. Nissa has 26 years of professional journalism experience, beginning as a general news and features reporter for the USL/University of Louisiana-Lafayette student newspaper, The Vermilion, in 1984, and then working for two years as the Lafayette government and general news and features correspondent to The (Baton Rouge, La.) Morning Advocate. She has also co-written a book about ice hockey, The Louisiana IceGators Phenomenon, to which she contributed a business analysis. She is an amateur golfer and an informal student of monetary policy. Her copy of Alan Greenspan’s autobiography is peppered with margin notes, underlining, circling, personal commentary, and suggestions as well as a few editor’s marks. Greenspan admits in closing that the book is roughly a fifth-million words, so statistical probability suggests there are some typos in it. He writes, “I do not know where they are. If I did, they wouldn’t be there…My apologies in advance.” Nissa noted three.
Contact Nissa Darbonne by e-mail ( nissadarbonne@gmail.com ).
