Tina Susman

Tina Susman is an American journalist and editor. A senior editor at Time part of the over-five-fold trend in the increase of women war correspondents from 1970 to 1992. where Susman attended public school. She told O, The Oprah Magazine, that her experience in that city and school system helped her learn how to "navigate threats." and township violence, in addition to doing features, when she became the Associated Press news editor for the country, reporting and writing on top of doing managerial work. She covered the famine and civil war in Somalia, the genocide in Rwanda, and regional conflicts in Angola, Lesotho and Mozambique, among other places. She also happened to be in the Soviet Union when it collapsed in the fall of 1991 and wrote related stories.

Kidnapping in Somalia In 1994, on her fourth trip to Somalia, and while reporting on U.S. peacekeeping troops leaving the country, Somali rebels outnumbered her bodyguards in Mogadishu, dragged her from her car in broad daylight, and held her for 20 days. She describes being treated "extraordinarily well" due to the kidnappers' interest in her ransom, and she told The Quill that she believes being a woman was an advantage in her experience there. However, the Associated Press had requested news organizations including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post suppress the story to discourage the emboldening of the kidnappers. The next year, she became the Africa correspondent for Newsday from Johannesburg, South Africa. This work also garnered an award from the National Association of Black Journalists for "outstanding coverage of the black condition."

In 2000, Susman did a series of stories looking at the threats to Africa's environment, including deforestation in central and west Africa, the bushmeat trade in Congo, over-fishing in Africa's Lake Victoria; industrial pollution in South Africa, She went to Pakistan in September and October of that year, to cover the situation there and in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks but was involved in a car crash while traveling in Kashmir and suffered two fractures in her right leg. She was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show on February 20, 2002 to talk about the accident, her kidnapping in Somalia, and the dangers that journalists face.

Susman's 2003 article on the rise donor activism has been used in law schools. In 2005, she took the first place prize from the Newswomen's Club of New York, for deadline reporting for her stories from southeast Asia following the December 2004 tsunami. She also reported on Hurricane Katrina that year. Her article that year about Basam Ridha, Iraq's executioner, was called by Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell as "important and balanced" in his book So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits—and the President—Failed on Iraq. In addition to reporting, writing, and budgeting, Susman worked with security consultants in Iraq's capital to ensure her staff's safety.

In 2011 she was part of a team from the Los Angeles Times that won for coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. She reached the country the morning after the quake, becoming one of the first print reporters on the ground to file from the scene. Her topics at the newspaper were breaking news, which ranged from the Westminster Kennel Club dog show to the Ferguson protests, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and his killer's trial, the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements, the legalization of same-sex marriage, and various natural and man-made disasters. Her co-coverage of the shooting deaths of African American men at the hands of law enforcement has been used by law scholars at Harvard, University of Virginia and Loyola Law Schools.

Susman became national editor for BuzzFeed News in 2016 overseeing the reporting of true crime stories and articles about the real effects of MeToo. She oversaw newsy pieces with an investigative edge focusing on policing, Title IX violations, and sexual misconduct in the workplace and in educational institutions. Two stories first reported by BuzzFeed News that Susman oversaw, resulting in the firing of their subjects, a respected UC Berkeley professor and a high-ranking DC Comics editor, for sexual misconduct. She also oversaw a 2018 article about a private school in California condemned for punishing their gay students.

In 2019 Susman became a senior editor at Time magazine. whose father, Soterios Christou Terezopoulos, was Greek Cypriot and a barrister in London and a M.B.E. Dorothy, a pioneer in the repair side of the telephone industry, had a second daughter with Howard, Olivia Susman Dyas, who died in 1996.