Michael Sisak is a reporter (and photographer and page designer) at The Citizens' Voice, a 30,000-circulation daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His hybrid role includes covering the county courts and developments in an ongoing federal corruption probe, photographing sports (particularly high schools and Penn State) and designing covers for the newspaper's weekly high school football section, the occasional front page, and layouts for special news sections.

This year Sisak and Citizens’ Voice projects editor Dave Janoski won a first-place award for the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors for their investigative report, "Follow the Money." Their work, led by Janoski's unmatched knowledge and reporting skill, served as a prelude for readers to the federal charges filed against two sitting county judges in January.

Sisak has also worked as a freelance photographer for nearly a decade, and his work has appeared in various publications including: Sports Illustrated, ESPN: The Magazine, The New York Times, the Detroit Free-Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Soccer America and Inside Lacrosse. His clients have included Penn State, Hofstra and Stony Brook universities, and the New York Mets.

From March 2004 to March 2005, while still an undergraduate at Hofstra University, Sisak worked as a full-time photographer and reporter for Long-Islander Newspapers, a chain of weeklies in Huntington, N.Y. While there, he won six awards from the New York Press Association — five for photography and one for spot news reporting.

As a student, Sisak contributed photographs to the campus newspaper, Hofstra Chronicle and served as the photo editor for Pulse, the student magazine.

His images in the Fall 2006 issue of Pulse earned first place honors in the photography category at the Newsday School Journalism Awards. He has also covered campus visits by former president Bill Clinton, former attorney general John Ashcroft and the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie.

Other career highlights include covering the Inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, the three-overtime Orange Bowl between Penn State and Florida State in 2006, the Republican National Convention in 2000 and the National League playoffs in 1999, when he was still young and the Mets were still good.