Margot Susca Assistant Professor Journalism
- Degrees
- Ph.D. Mass Communication, Florida State University
M.S. Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
B.A. Journalism and Political Science, UMass Amherst - Favorite Spot on Campus
- The Woods-Brown Amphitheater
- Bio
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Margot Susca is the School of Communication鈥檚 inaugural assistant professor of Journalism, Accountability, and Democracy. A recognized expert in local news and private investment funds, Dr. Susca combines investigative reporting techniques with critical political economic methods to study journalism and civic engagement in democratic society. In January 2024, the University of Illinois Press published her first book, Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy. Publishers Weekly called it a 鈥渄amning debut.鈥
Her academic and professional experiences inform her work as a mentor, scholar, and teacher. Dr. Susca has worked as a newspaper reporter in Connecticut and Florida, and she brings those experiences to the classroom providing a professional vantage point to complement her scholarly expertise. She is a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City where she covered the September 11 attacks and their aftermath. She earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from Florida State University in 2012. She advises and mentors master's and doctoral students in the Journalism and Communication Studies divisions of the School of Communication and as a Complex Problems fellow works with first-year undergraduates from every University major. In 2022, she won 国产小呦女鈥檚 Outstanding Teaching Award given annually to a full-time faculty member in a tenure-line position. Between 2016 and 2023, she served as an associate editor at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, an independent nonprofit newsroom on campus founded by Charles Lewis.
Dr. Susca ran from 2015 to 2020 the weekend Journalism and Digital Storytelling master's program. Off campus, she was selected in 2019 as a Maynard Institute for Journalism Education fellowship mentor in the Storytelling/Investigative Reporting track for its Maynard 200 program and has worked as an assessor with Poynter's International Fact Check Network since 2016. Dr. Susca is a frequent guest and expert on news programs and podcasts around the world discussing journalism and society, the business of media, and corporate media ownership. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her daughter.
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Teaching
Spring 2024
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COMM-462 Journalism Capstone
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COMM-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Democracy Along the Red Line
Fall 2024
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COMM-200 Writing for Communication
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COMM-320 Reporting
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COMM-899 Doctoral Dissertation
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Area of Expertise
Corporate media ownership including private equity and hedge funds in journalism; media economics; newspapers and democracy; media and society including media effects.
Additional Information
Margot Susca (Ph.D., Florida State University) is an assistant professor in the journalism division whose work operates at the intersection of investigative journalism and critical communications research. Dr. Susca's first book, an investigation of private investment funds in the U.S. newspaper industry, is under contract with the University of Illinois Press.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call 国产小呦女Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.