Suzanne McBride
Suzanne McBride is associate chair of the Journalism Department at Columbia College Chicago, where she teaches community news and investigative reporting. She’s co-publisher of ChicagoTalks.org, a local news web site that has been honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Chicago Headline Club. She’s created a second online news site, AustinTalks.org, which launched in April 2010. Before joining Columbia’s faculty in August 2005, Suzanne was a reporter and editor in Indiana at The Indianapolis Star and the now-defunct Indianapolis News, the Terre Haute Tribune-Star and The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Suzanne also worked for the NBC affiliate (Channel 13) in Indianapolis and as a legislative aide in Washington, D.C., for an Ohio congressman. She’s a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Iowa and earned a master’s degree from Northwestern University.