Susan Albright

Susan Albright is a retired journalist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the former managing editor of MinnPost.com.

Albright held editing positions at the Louisville Times and the Syracuse Herald-Journal, and was editorial page editor for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. She started out studying literature and music before going into journalism via Syracuse University's M.A. program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Albright served for many years on the World Press Institute's board of directors and its executive board. Her articles about the craft of editorial writing include “Sights and Sounds of a Newspaper’s Editorials” in Nieman Reports, Winter 2006. She is one of the authors of the book "Beyond Argument, a Handbook for Editorial Writers," published by the National Conference of Editorial Writers (now AOJ), and Scripps Howard Foundation.

She served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in 1998, 1999, 2013, and 2014; has served several times as a Blue Ribbon judge for the California Newspaper Publishers Association's annual journalism contest; and has appeared several times as a regional commenter on PBS' "NewsHour."