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Susy Schultz
Susy Schultz
Nationality	American
Occupation	Journalist

Susy Schultz is an American journalist, educator and social advocate. She currently is executive director of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. She formerly was president of the Public Narrative in Chicago.^[1]

She was recently named one of the "most powerful women in Chicago journalism" by the media critic of the Chicago Tribune.

Schultz, after an early stint at the City News Bureau of Chicago, joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1984, where for 14 years she covered a wide range of stories, earning a number of awards including a Pulitzer Prize nomination.^[1][2]

While pioneering a new social services beat for the newspaper—including coverage of domestic violence, elder care, child care and homeless families—she also worked as a columnist and as the newspaper's critic for children's theater, movies and TV programs.

After leaving the Sun-Times in 1998, she worked in the Department of Health and Human Services, serving as the regional affairs specialist for Hannah Rosenthal, who oversaw the six-state Midwest region — the country’s most populated region.

Later she worked with Sister Sheila Lynne, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, where she organized communications, training all senior management and developing a message and brand for public health. She also headed up the media committee of the city’s strategic violence prevention plan.

She worked for two years as consulting editor at The Chicago Reporter, a training ground for investigative reporters.

For four years starting in 2002, she was associate publisher and editor of Chicago Parent magazine. During her tenure, the University of Missouri School of Journalism named it the top regional parenting magazine in the nation for three consecutive years.

Schultz was also during this time a member of the 2002 Chicago celebrity cast of The Vagina Monologues.^[3]

She served as director of advocacy and communication for the Chicago Foundation for Women, where she helped coordinate a year-long statewide anti-violence initiative titled “What Will It Take?". She authored the initiative’s 143-page report.

In 2007, she was recruited to be managing editor for The Daily Journal, which serves the Kankakee region directly south of Chicago, and readership consultant to the Small Newspaper Group, Inc. a chain of newspapers and magazines reaching across much of the Middle West.

The newspaper, during her four years there, won a number of national and state awards.

She currently serves as a readership consultant to SNG, Inc., which publishes The Daily Journal and a string of other newspapers in Illinois and Minnesota.^[4]

Schultz has written over the years for the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, the New York Times Syndicate and News Service and the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Her radio commentaries have been heard on Minnesota Public Radio.

A vice president of the national Journalism & Women's Symposium (JAWS), she was also founding president of the Association of Women Journalists in Chicago.^[4]

Fluent in Spanish, Schultz is a graduate of Lawrence University and has taught undergraduate and graduate journalism at Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University.

She is the mother of two sons, Bryant and Zachary.^[3]

• Susy Schultz website http://susyschultz.com
• Community Media Workshop http://community mediaworkshop.org/
• Journalism & Women Symposium http://www.jaws.org/
• Association for Women Journalists—Chicago http://www.awj-chicago.org/cpages/home
• Chicago Foundation for Women http://www.cfw.org/
• Susy Schultz profile http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?author=42&profile
• Susy Schultz profile http://www.champagneandbeyond1.com/2015/03/08/susy-schultz-navigating-two-worlds/
• WGN Radio interview with Susy Schultz, president of Community Media Workshop http://wgnradio.com/2015/03/06/rick-kogan-full-show-030615/
• Susy Schultz oral history on founding of the Association for Women Journalists http://chicagowomen.weebly.com/susy-schultz--cindy-richards.html
• The Most Powerful Women in Chicago Journalism: 2017 edition. http://www.robertfeder.com/2017/05/08/powerful-women-chicago-journalism-2017-edition/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Broadcast_Communications