As an independent journalist, I’ve spent more than three decades writing about entrepreneurs and innovations in business, technology, travel, lifestyle, the arts, and senior issues.

Publication Experience

  • Contributor, Northern Nevada Business Weekly. Profiles and features on business leaders, entrepreneurs and industry trends.

  • Contributor, Edible Reno/Tahoe. Features on culinary innovators, agriculture trends and local industry leaders.

  • Founding Managing Editor, contributor Edible Silicon Valley. Recruited and supervised writers, developed editorial blueprint. Produced profiles of culinary entrepreneurs, agriculture innovators as well as issue-oriented features.

  • Columnist/feature writer San Jose Mercury News. Weekly column on volunteerism and non-profit activities.  Other beats: profiles, travel and lifestyle issues, advertorials.

  • Contributing feature writer, San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, San Francisco Business Times, Northern Nevada Business Weekly. Beats: profiles, travel, industry reports, real estate, family business, technology, enterprise.

  • General assignment reporter/feature writer; Gloucester and Beverly Daily Times, Beverly, MA. Beats: business news, municipal government, profiles, the arts and community issues.

  • Associate Editor; Recorder Group Publications,Worcester, MA. Supervised correspondents for eight weekly editions; created and edited new Family Living section, wrote weekly column on volunteerism, fashion and travel.

Additional Credits

Susan has published hundreds of articles on a wide range of topics for newspapers and magazines around the country, some of which are highlighted below:      

  • Features, Kaiser CONTACT                  

  • Feature, American Cowboy

  • Features, 3-2-1 Contact

  • Feature, Torrance Sunday Breeze

  • Cover stories, features Zoo Views

  • Feature, LINK UP                     

  • Feature, STANFORD magazine

  • Feature, Cooking for Profit                    

  • Features, Phoenix Business Journal

  • Cover Story, Cruising World                

  • Cover Story, Telecommunications

  • Cover Story, Stanford Lawyer

  • Cover Stories, Mercury News

  • Features, Edible Monterey Bay

  • Feature, San Francisco Examiner                

  • Features, Silicon Valley Business Journal

  • Features, North Shore                   

  • Features, Monterey Herald