15 Facts About Tina Susman

Tina Susman was born in Orange County, the daughter of Howard and Dorothy Olivia Susman, who had immigrated to the US from England.

Tina Susman was a reporter and an editor at the SDSU Daily Aztec.

Tina Susman began working for the Associated Press out of college in San Diego; she moved onto their foreign desk in New York City and was sent to South Africa in October 1990.

Tina Susman was a Johannesburg-based correspondent until August 1993, covering the end of apartheid, the election of Nelson Mandela, 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.

Tina Susman covered the famine and civil war in Somalia, the genocide in Rwanda, and regional conflicts in Angola, Lesotho and Mozambique, among other places.

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Tina Susman happened to be in the Soviet Union when it collapsed in the fall of 1991 and wrote related stories.

Tina Susman describes being treated "extraordinarily well" due to the kidnappers' interest in her ransom, and she told The Quill that believes being a woman was an advantage in her experience there.

Tina Susman stayed at her job at the Associated Press, focusing on the wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, and political upheavals in Nigeria, Cameroon, and elsewhere.

In 1999, Tina Susman won her first in a series of awards, first prize for international reporting from the New York Association of Black Journalists for her coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone, including stories on a rebel attack on the capital, Freetown, and interviews with assault survivors.

In 2000, Tina 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, and efforts to save the great apes in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania won her an honorable mention, Overseas Press Club.

Tina Susman 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.

From 2007 Tina Susman was the Baghdad bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times.

Tina Susman reached the country the morning after the quake, becoming one of the first print reporters on the ground to file from the scene.

Tina Susman became national editor for BuzzFeed News in 2016 overseeing the reporting of true crime stories and articles about the real effects of MeToo.

Tina Susman oversaw a 2018 article about a private school in California condemned for punishing their gay students.