Susan Smith Richardson is an American journalist, news editor and media executive. She is the former managing editor at The Guardian US. Prior to that, she was the chief executive officer of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.[1][2] Until 2019, she was editorial director of newsrooms for the Solutions Journalism Network[3] and was previously the editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter.[4][5] In 2002, she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. From 2011 to 2013, she was editor of the Texas Observer magazine and from 2004 to 2007, she was an editor for the Chicago Tribune.[6] She has served on the board of directors for the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, named after journalist Molly Ivins.[7]
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She was a research fellow at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law, and directed the Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold Archives Project.[8]
She holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a bachelors of science in radio, television and film from the University of Texas at Austin.[9]
References edit
- ^ Owen, Laura Hazard (2019-04-04). "As the new CEO of the Center for Public Integrity, Susan Smith Richardson wants to serve communities far beyond Washington". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ McCormick, Andrew (2018-04-04). "Susan Smith Richardson to head Center for Public Integrity". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "Solutions Journalism Network". www.solutionsjournalism.org. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ Levine, Carole (2017-06-13). "Nonprofit News Outlets Eye Chicago: What Are the Possibilities?". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ Spinner, Jackie (2017-04-05). "Chicago reporters on covering the city's violence during the Trump era". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "Susan Smith Richardson Named Editor & Publisher Of The Chicago Reporter". chicagoradioandmedia.com. 2013-08-07. Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "Sarah Stillman Wins Top Award at the 2013 MOLLY National Journalism Prize Dinner". The Texas Observer. 2013-06-07. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "Susan Smith Richardson, Editor and Publisher - The Chicago Reporter". Coalition of African American Leaders. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "Susan Smith Richardson". Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
External links edit
Media related to Susan Smith Richardson at Wikimedia Commons- The Chicago Reporter archive of works
- Interview with WTTW. October 29, 2013.
- Interview with Columbia Journalism Review, The Kicker. April 4, 2019.
