Forward hires Greene to cover Israel-Hamas war

The Forward has hired Susan Greene, an award-winning investigative journalist and nonprofit news entrepreneur, to cover the Israel-Hamas war and its ongoing repercussions.

Greene will be based in Israel for the Jewish news organization.

“I am genuinely overjoyed to share that Susan Greene, an award-winning investigative journalist and nonprofit news entrepreneur, will be joining the Forward,” said Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren in an email to the newsroom. “We are truly lucky to have connected with Susan, a veteran reporter and editor with a remarkable range of experience and sense of adventure, at a moment of great challenge and opportunity.”

Susan spent 13 years at the Denver Post, where she was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a four-part series called Trashing the Truth that helped exonerate six wrongfully convicted men, and part of the team that won the 2000 Pulitzer in breaking news for coverage of the Columbine massacre the year before.

In 2012, seeing the crisis of cuts at local news outlets, Greene created the Colorado Independent. In 2020, she co-founded the Colorado News Collaborative, and the Colorado Press Association named her News Leader of the Year in 2022.

A 1989 graduate of the University of Michigan Residential College, she has a master’s degree in creative nonfiction from Johns Hopkins, and has taught writing to people in hospice care and in prison.