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Tina Susman
OccupationJournalist and editor
EducationSan Diego State University-California State University
Notable awardsSociety of Professional Journalists, Newswomen's Club of New York's Front Page Awards (twice), National Association of Black Journalists (twice)

Tina Susman is an American journalist and editor. A senior editor at

Oprah and on MSNBC
among other outlets, and her case became the subject of debate about whether the Associated Press should have withheld news of the kidnapping.

Early life and education

Tina Susman was born in Orange County, the daughter of Howard and Dorothy Olivia Susman,[3] who had immigrated to the U.S. from England. They relocated to Oakland, California,[4] where Susman attended public school. She told O, The Oprah Magazine, that her experience in that city and school system helped her learn how to "navigate threats."[5] Susman earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs at San Diego State University-California State University. She was a reporter and an editor at the SDSU Daily Aztec.

Career

Susman began working for the Associated Press out of college in

genocide in Rwanda, and regional conflicts in Angola, Lesotho and Mozambique, among other places. She also happened to be in the Soviet Union when it collapsed in the fall of 1991 and wrote related stories.[9]

Kidnapping in Somalia

In 1994, on her fourth trip to

news editor and correspondent
.

Continued work in Africa and in conflict zones

Susman stayed at her job at the Associated Press, focusing on the

Sigma Delta Chi for Foreign Correspondence from the Society of Professional Journalists for another series on the use of children as soldiers in Liberia and Sierra Leone, efforts to rehabilitate them, and challenges to their recovery.[16][17]
This work also garnered an award from the National Association of Black Journalists for "outstanding coverage of the black condition."

In 2000, Susman did a series of stories looking at the threats to Africa's environment, including

9/11 attacks but was involved in a car crash while traveling in Kashmir and suffered two fractures in her right leg.[20] She was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show
on February 20, 2002 to talk about the accident, her kidnapping in Somalia, and the dangers that journalists face.

Susman's 2003 article on the rise donor activism has been used in law schools.

December 2004 tsunami.[22] She also reported on Hurricane Katrina that year.[23] The next year, Susman won first place for in-depth reporting from the same organization for a series of stories on the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, including interviews with women who had been victims of rape by rebel forces, and witness accounts of attacks by the so-called janjaweed
forces.

L.A. Times, BuzzFeed News, and Time

From 2007 Susman was the Baghdad bureau chief of the

Iraq war. She told Editor & Publisher, "I think our paper does a better job of telling the story through the eyes of ordinary Iraqis. From what I do read, I actually think we do that on a regular basis more than others, maybe because of the staff we have. Part of, frankly, is because that's what I'm stronger at."[23] Her article that year about Basam Ridha, Iraq's executioner,[24] was called by Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell as "important and balanced" in his book So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits—and the President—Failed on Iraq.[25]
In addition to reporting, writing, and budgeting, Susman worked with security consultants in Iraq's capital to ensure her staff's safety.

In 2011 she was part of a team from the Los Angeles Times that won for coverage of the

Ferguson protests, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and his killer's trial, the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements, the legalization of same-sex marriage, and various natural and man-made disasters. Her co-coverage of the shooting deaths of African American men at the hands of law enforcement[26][27] has been used by law scholars at Harvard, University of Virginia and Loyola Law Schools.[28][29][30]

Susman became national editor for

UC Berkeley professor and a high-ranking DC Comics editor, for sexual misconduct.[35][36] She also oversaw a 2018 article about a private school in California condemned for punishing their gay students.[37]

In 2019 Susman became a senior editor at Time magazine.[1]

Awards

  • Robert F. Kennedy journalism award (team), RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights, 2011
  • First place, in-depth reporting for Darfur series, Newswomen's Club of New York, 2006
  • First prize, deadline reporting, Newswomen's Club of New York, 2005
  • Honorable Mention, Overseas Press Club, 2000
  • Outstanding coverage of the black condition, National Association of Black Journalists, 2000
  • With Geoffrey Mohan, Foreign Correspondence,
    Sigma Delta Chi
    ), 1999
  • Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club, 1999
  • First prize, international reporting, New York Association of Black Journalists

Family

Susman's mother Dorothy was English,

M.B.E.[38] Dorothy, a pioneer in the repair side of the telephone industry, had a second daughter with Howard, Olivia Susman Dyas, who died in 1996.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Felsenthal, Edward (April 10, 2019). "Time Announces Editorial Promotions and New Hires". Time.
  2. ^ a b Dietrich, Heidi (November 20, 2002). "Women in War Zones". The Quill.
  3. ^ a b c "Obituaries: Dorothy Susman". San Francisco Chronicle.
  4. ^ "Tina Susman". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  5. ^ a b Burford, Michelle (July 2002). "Adventurous Thinkers". O, The Oprah Magazine.
  6. ^ "Tina Susman". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  7. ^ Susman, Tina, "Mandela Claims Victory in South Africa's Historic Election, AP Online, May 2, 1994"
  8. ^ Susman, "American Forces Land in Somalia, Greeted by Press," AP Online, December 8, 1992."
  9. ^ Susman, "Ukrainians Prepare to Pull Down Statue of 'Bloodstained' Lenin," AP Online, August 30, 1991."
  10. ^ a b Callahan, Christopher (September 1994). "When a Journalist is Kidnapped". Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
  11. ^ Glaberson, William (August 8, 1994). "The Media Business: Press – In Somalia, 20 days of terror and a lesson for journalists". The New York Times.
  12. ^ Susman, "International News: Liberia's Gen. Naked Joins Church, AP Online, August 3, 1997"
  13. ^ Susman (August 4, 1997), "Liberia's Fierce Butt Naked General Now Preaches Peace," Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  14. ^ Tabor, Damon (March 14, 2016). "The Greater the Sinner: A Liberian Warlord's Unlikely Path to Forgiveness". The New Yorker.
  15. ^ "Tina Susman". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  16. ^ "1999 Sigma Delta Chi Award Honorees". Society of Professional Journalists.
  17. ^ "Foreign Correspondence," The Quill, July 1, 2001
  18. ^ "Tina Susman". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  19. ^ "Conflict in Africa: Origins and Responsibility[sic]". C-SPAN. July 12, 2001.
  20. ^ Samson Mulugeta, "The War on Terror; Newsday Writer Injured in Kashmir," Newsday, October 22, 2001
  21. ^ Brody, Evelyn (October 2007). "From the Dead Hand to the Living Dead: The Conundrum of Charitable Donor Standing (symposium)" (PDF). Chicago-Kent College of Law.
  22. ^ "Newswomen's Club of New York Announces 2005 Front Page Awards," PR Newswire US, September 27, 2005
  23. ^ a b Weber, Sarah (October 2007). "Page One: The human side of war". Editor & Publisher. Vol. 140, no. 10.
  24. ^ "Actor's new role: Iraqi hangman". Los Angeles Times. July 22, 2007.
  25. ^ Mitchell, Greg, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits—and the President—Failed on Iraq (New York, NY: Union Square Press, 2008), p. 244
  26. ^ Susman, Tina (November 22, 2014). "Fatal New York Police Shooting Stokes New Criticism". Los Angeles Times.
  27. ^ Daniel Funke & Tina Susman, "From Ferguson to Baton Rouge: Deaths of Black. Men and Women at the Hands of Police," Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2016.
  28. SSRN 3026141
    .
  29. ^ Murray, Yxta Maya (August 25, 2017). "Policing in America: Rafa Esparza's Red Summer". Fordham Urban Law Journal.
  30. ^ Cohen, Ryan (2017). "The Force and the Resistance: Why Changing the Police Force Is Neither Inevitable, Nor Impossible". Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository.
  31. ^ "Tina Susman". BuzzFeed News.
  32. ^ Samaha, Albert (February 7, 2018). "An 18-Year-Old Said She Was Raped While in Police Custody. The Officers Say She Consented".
  33. ^ Kingkade, Tyler (December 29, 2018). "It Took 20 Years, But The Feds Have Charged A Man in a Child Sex Abuse Case". BuzzFeed News.
  34. ^ Shyamsundar, Harini; Lee, Chantelle; Lynn, Jessica; Pratt, Pressly (September 19, 2018). "Renowned UC Berkeley philosophy professor emeritus accused of sex assault". The Daily Californian.
  35. ^ Weinberg, Justin (June 21, 2019). "Searle Found to Have Violated Sexual Harassment Policies (Updated with further details and statement from Berkeley)". Daily Nous.
  36. ^ Rosberg, Caitlin (November 14, 2017). "DC has finally fired Eddie Berganza—but abuse and harassment go much deeper in the tight-knit comics industry". The A.V. Club.
  37. ^ Kinkade (June 12, 2019). "California Wants To Shut Down A Christian School Accused Of Punishing Students For Being Gay". BuzzFeed News.
  38. ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 37835". The London Gazette (Supplement). December 31, 1946. pp. 1–30.

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