Susan Smith Richardson

{{short description|American journalist and editor}}

{{other uses|Susan Richardson (disambiguation)}}

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/as-the-new-ceo-of-the-center-for-public-integrity-susan-richardson-wants-to-serve-communities-far-beyond-washington/|title=As the new CEO of the Center for Public Integrity, Susan Smith Richardson wants to serve communities far beyond Washington|last=Owen|first=Laura Hazard|date=2019-04-04|website=Nieman Lab|access-date=2019-04-04}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/susan-smith-richardson-chicago-center-for-public-integrity.php|title=Susan Smith Richardson to head Center for Public Integrity|last=McCormick|first=Andrew|date=2018-04-04|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2019-04-04}} Until 2019, she was editorial director of newsrooms for the Solutions Journalism Network{{Cite web|url=https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/who-we-are/team|title=Solutions Journalism Network|website=www.solutionsjournalism.org|access-date=2019-04-04}} and was previously the editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter.{{Cite web|url=https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/06/13/nonprofit-news-outlets-eye-chicago-possibilities/|title=Nonprofit News Outlets Eye Chicago: What Are the Possibilities?|last=Levine|first=Carole|date=2017-06-13|website=Non Profit News {{!}} Nonprofit Quarterly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-04}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/chicago-violence-guns-trump.php|title=Chicago reporters on covering the city's violence during the Trump era|last=Spinner|first=Jackie|date=2017-04-05|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2019-04-04}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/5839-susan-smith-richardson-named-editor-publisher-of-the-chicago-reporter|title=Susan Smith Richardson Named Editor & Publisher Of The Chicago Reporter|date=2013-08-07|website=chicagoradioandmedia.com|access-date=2019-04-04|archive-date=2019-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404050927/http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/5839-susan-smith-richardson-named-editor-publisher-of-the-chicago-reporter|url-status=dead}} She has served on the board of directors for the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, named after journalist Molly Ivins.{{Cite web|url=https://www.texasobserver.org/2013-molly-prize-winner-sarah-stillman/|title=Sarah Stillman Wins Top Award at the 2013 MOLLY National Journalism Prize Dinner|date=2013-06-07|website=The Texas Observer|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-04}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://coalchicago.com/guest-speakers/susan-smith-richardson-editor-and-publisher-the-chicago-reporter/|title=Susan Smith Richardson, Editor and Publisher - The Chicago Reporter|website=Coalition of African American Leaders|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-04|last3=Pm|first3=2015 at 1:58}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wnanews.com/2019-wna-convention/2019-convention-schedule/speakers/susan-smith-richardson/|title=Susan Smith Richardson|website=Wisconsin Newspaper Association|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-04|archive-date=2019-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404044253/https://www.wnanews.com/2019-wna-convention/2019-convention-schedule/speakers/susan-smith-richardson/|url-status=dead}}

In 2024, she joined The Intercept's board of directors.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-11 |title=The Intercept Adds Journalist Susan Smith Richardson to Board of Directors |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/09/11/susan-smith-richardson-intercept-board/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}