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Chicago digital nonprofit news site appoints Schultz editor

Susy Schultz

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Former Daily Journal managing editor Susy Schultz was recently named editor of the Evanston RoundTable, the nonprofit digital news site serving the north suburban Chicago community, as first reported in robertfeder.com.

Schultz, a veteran Chicago journalist and former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, was managing editor at the Daily Journal from 2007-12. She most recently was executive director of Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, a post she held from August 2019 until last September.

Schultz was president of the nonprofit Public Narrative (formerly Community Media Workshop) after leaving the Daily Journal, and previously was the associate publisher-editor of Chicago Parent magazine, according to the robertfeder.com story.

Schultz was founding president of the Association for Women Journalists’ Chicago chapter. She twice made robertfeder.com’s list of the most powerful women in Chicago journalism

Shultz also served as Executive Director of the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

Mariam Ahmed

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