Suzanne Hurt formerly covered health, water, the environment and general assignment for The Press-Enterprise/Southern California News Group. With a master's in literary nonfiction from the University of Oregon’s journalism school and a bachelor’s in news/editorial journalism from Northern Illinois University, she has also worked for The Register-Guard, City News Bureau of Chicago, The Modesto Bee and a hyperlocal news site and worked as a stringer for Reuters, Chicago Tribune and The Sacramento Bee.

Suzanne has collaborated with newsroom colleagues to win: A national Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for deadline reporting on the Dec. 2, 2015, San Bernardino terrorist attack; a California Newspaper Publishers Association first place environmental reporting award for the aftermath of a tire-pile fire disaster; Illinois Associated Press Editors Association second place spot news award for coverage of a police officer killing; and Society of Professional Journalists/Chicago Headline Club Lisagor Award for coverage of Midway Airlines’ closure.

Suzanne was a 2017 California Fellow. Her Fellowship project was a series taking a closer look at the Dec. 2 terrorist attack survivors' struggles to recover and how their plight has thrown a spotlight on California’s broken workers' compensation system. 

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