Curriculum vitae
Current contracts
Susannah is writing and editing modules for World Press Photo's online training courses for photojournalists around the world. She provides BBC Training with regular Web writing courses and is the author of Chambers Desktop Guide to Writing for the Web. She also works with the commercial writing company Clarity and is responsible for most of the editorial work of the Select Ideas website and consultancy.
Recent contracts
Susannah has written modules for BBC World Service Training’s online courses for journalists. As part of the British government's support for reform of primary health care in Georgia, Susannah ran a radio training course in Tbilisi for NGOs working in health promotion. She has written, with Hazel Slavin, a manual for radio and television producers in Yemen as part of a family planning project funded by the European Commission.
1995-2001
On behalf of BBC World Service Training, Susannah ran a project of training and support to Indian broadcasters making programmes on reproductive health, a five-year programme of training for the government radio and television in Thailand and a series of workshops on radio journalism for independent local stations in Poland. She did a three-month consultancy for BBC Worldwide Television on the television market in India, including a blueprint and business plan for a local production facility. On behalf of BBC Marshall Plan of the Mind, she helped prepare proposals for four new series of radio and television programmes for Russia.
BBC career
Susannah was a BBC journalist for 20 years. In her last post, as Deputy Editor of World Service News, she was responsible for recruiting and training journalists and for editorial standards, including producing the newsroom Style Book. She joined the World Service in 1974 and reported from Portugal during the revolution. As well as working as a desk editor, her assignments included covering two British general elections and working as a special correspondent in South America, after which she became Deputy Head of the Latin American Service. She also reported from Angola and Mozambique, and represented the BBC in visits to Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Cuba, Venezuela and the USA.
Background
Susannah graduated from Oxford University in 1969 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and spent three years teaching History, English and French (obtaining a Dip.Ed. from Southampton) before deciding to be a journalist.