Susan Feeney

Feeney started her journalism career in the early 1980s at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans as the city hall and courts reporter.{{cite news|last1=Bond|first1=Michaella|title=The Embattled Editor|url=http://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=5367|accessdate=January 18, 2015|publisher=American Journalism Review|date=June 2012}} She later covered the Louisiana delegation, politics, and policy, including the 1988 Presidential campaign and the Republican Convention in New Orleans, as the newspaper's Washington bureau reporter. Feeney continued to cover Washington and national politics through the late 1990s for The Dallas Morning News,{{cite book|last1=Loevy|first1=Robert D.|author1-link=Robert D. Loevy|title=Controversial Issues in Presidential Selection|publisher=SUNY Press|location=Albany, NY|edition=Second|chapter=Do the Media Inform?}} holding various posts as Washington bureau reporter, White House reporter, and national political reporter. As such, she covered the Texas delegation, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Bill Clinton presidency{{cite news|last1=Ifill|first1=Gwen|title=THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; Facing Draft Questions, Clinton Avoids the Press|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/11/us/the-1992-campaign-political-memo-facing-draft-questions-clinton-avoids-the-press.html|accessdate=September 21, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=September 11, 1992}} and impeachment, presidential campaigns,{{cite news|last1=Oreskes|first1=Michael|title=Jackson, 'Too Mature to Be Angry,' Icily Offers No Embrace for Ticket|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/13/us/jackson-too-mature-to-be-angry-icily-offers-no-embrace-for-ticket.html|accessdate=September 21, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=July 13, 1988|quote=He then pointed to one of the reporters who had been there and asked her name. It was Susan M. Feeney of The New Orleans Times-Picayune.}} and a range of domestic and international politics. Her investigative reporting garnered numerous awards. Her series “Hidden Danger: The Debate Over Land Mines” won the Texas Katie Award for Government Reporting, and her 1995 series co-written by Steve McGonigle, “Voting Rights: The Next Generation,” won the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington Reporting and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for enterprise reporting, and was a finalist for the Harvard University Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

As a senior editor at NPR,[https://www.npr.org/about/press/000323.feeney.html Susan Feeney Joins NPR's Morning Edition as Senior Editor] Feeney edited award-winning work, including the 2008 special series “The York Project: Race & The ’08 Vote,”{{cite web|title=Program Descriptions of 2010 duPont-Columbia Award Winners|url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/733/9-program-descriptions-of-2010-dupont-columbia-award-winners/165|publisher=Columbia Journalism School|access-date=January 12, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211104739/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/733/9-program-descriptions-of-2010-dupont-columbia-award-winners/165|archive-date=December 11, 2013|df=mdy-all}} which examined racial attitudes during the 2008 presidential race (the series won the 2009 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award); coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war, which won Peabody Awards; and breaking news coverage of the Chengdu, China, earthquake, which won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award among others.{{cite web|title=Program Descriptions of 2009 duPont-Columbia Award Winners|url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/533-program-descriptions-of-2009-dupont-columbia-award-winners/165|publisher=Columbia Journalism School|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209120155/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/533-program-descriptions-of-2009-dupont-columbia-award-winners/165|archive-date=December 9, 2014|df=mdy-all}} Feeney oversaw the NPR Presidential Debate in 2007 as the executive producer of the live two-hour debate from Des Moines. In 2004, she conceived and edited the NPR's 2004 Presidential Candidate Debate,{{cite news|title=Six Democratic Presidential Candidates Discuss Tax Cuts, Health Care in NPR Radio Debate|url=http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2004/1/7/six-democratic-presidential-candidates-discuss-tax-cuts-health-care-in-npr-radio-debate|accessdate=September 21, 2014|work=California Healthline|date=January 7, 2004|quote=In addition, NPR's Susan Feeney, who coordinated the debate, is scheduled to answer questions in a Washingtonpost.com online chat…}} which was the first radio-only forum in more than four decades.{{cite news|last1=Seelye|first1=Katharine|title=Blogging NPR's Democratic Debate|url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/blogging-nprs-democratic-debate/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A5%22%7D|accessdate=September 21, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=April 12, 2007}}

In the wake Hurricane Katrina's devastation in 2005, Feeney co-founded Friends of The Times Picayune, a relief fund that raised nearly $400,000 for employees of the newspaper and their families.{{cite news|last=CBS News|title=Displaced New Orleans Reporters Find Help From Colleagues Across The Country|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/displaced-new-orleans-reporters-find-help-from-colleagues-across-the-country/|accessdate=January 12, 2014|publisher=CBS News|date=January 26, 2007|quote=At least that's what Susan Feeney of NPR--and a former T-P writer--and her Friends of the Times-Picayune relief fund hope.}}[http://niemanreports.org/articles/the-friends-of-the-times-picayune-relief-fund/ NiemanReports: The Friends of the Times-Picayune Relief Fund] She wrote and lectured about disaster reporting and the city's recovery.{{cite web|title=Journalists In Disasters|url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?201393-1/journalists-disasters|publisher=C-SPAN|accessdate=September 21, 2014|date=October 8, 2007}}[http://niemanreports.org/articles/katrina-fatigue-listeners-say-theyve-heard-enough/ NiemanReports: Katrina Fatigue: Listeners Say They've Heard Enough]

Feeney joined the firm in 2010 and leads the Seattle office{{cite web |url=http://www.gmmb.com/news/view/national-public-radio-npr-news-leader-susan-feeney-joins-gmmb |title=National Public Radio (NPR) News Leader Susan Feeney Joins GMMB |publisher=GMMB |date=November 1, 2009 |access-date=February 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206101202/http://www.gmmb.com/news/view/national-public-radio-npr-news-leader-susan-feeney-joins-gmmb/ |archive-date=February 6, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}{{cite web|last=News Account|title=Susan Feeney Joins GMMB as Senior Counselor|url=http://www.capitolcommunicator.com/News/tabid/116/EntryID/802/Default.aspx|publisher=Capitol Communicator|date=November 18, 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213134615/http://capitolcommunicator.com/News/tabid/116/EntryID/802/Default.aspx|archivedate=December 13, 2010 }}{{cite web|last=Chupick|first=Jason|title=Susan Feeney Leaves NPR for GMMB|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/susan-feeney-leaves-npr-for-gmmb_b2491|publisher=Mediabistro|accessdate=January 11, 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Toeplitz|first1=Shira|title=Shop Talk... There's Something About Susan|url=http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_59/-40760-1.html|publisher=Roll Call|accessdate=6 February 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Gross|first1=Laura|title=NPR's Susan Feeney to GMMB|url=http://www.potomacflacks.com/pf/2009/11/nprs-susan-feeney-to-gmmb.html|publisher=Potomac Flacks|accessdate=6 February 2015}} At GMMB, Feeney provides strategic counsel to nonprofit clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others.

Feeney was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives in Seattle, Washington.{{cite news|title=Weddings; Susan Feeney and Stephen Hirsch|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/16/style/weddings-susan-feeney-and-stephen-hirsh.html|accessdate=September 21, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=May 16, 1993 |issue=May 16, 1993}} She earned her bachelor's degree in 1983 in Newspaper journalism with a minor in political science at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications,{{cite magazine |last1=Feeney |first1=Susan |title=Clinton's Cabinetmaker |journal=Syracuse University Magazine |date=Spring 1994 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=17 |url=https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol10/iss3/4/ |access-date=21 December 2022 |location=Article 4 |language=en |quote=Susan Feeney, a 1983 graduate of the Newhouse School, is a national political reporter for the Dallas Morning News based in Washington, D. C. }} where she was named a University Scholar.{{cite web |title=Awards and Honors - Syracuse University Libraries |url=https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/university-archives/founding-history/awards-and-honors/ |website=library.syracuse.edu |access-date=21 December 2022}}

She has two children, Jackson Lawrence Hirsh and Coby Marshall Hirsh.{{Cite news |last=Carmody |first=John |date=1998-02-13 |title=THE TV COLUMN |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/02/13/the-tv-column/0005505c-4874-47ab-ba7c-b62636f5b28b/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |issn=0190-8286}} Jackson is an American singer-songwriter known as Rence.

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• [http://niemanreports.org/articles/journalism-driven-by-passion/ NiemanReports: Journalism Driven By Passion]
• [http://partnersforourchildren.org/about-us/board-directors Partners for Our Children] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206205007/http://partnersforourchildren.org/about-us/board-directors |date=February 6, 2015 }}

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