Susan Lisovicz first discovered her passion for journalism when she wrote a story for her high school newspaper about a rock concert she attended at Madison Square Garden. By the time she was in college, she was on the air reporting and anchoring news at a commercial radio station at the Jersey Shore. 

As a new reporter for The Associated Press in Albany, NY she was encouraged to find stories that would appeal to a national audience. A story she pitched about a raucous holiday sale that doubled the population of a small Rust Belt town earned her a byline in the Washington Post. 

She joined CNN as a news writer in Atlanta and within a year  was anchoring the late weekend shift at Headline News (HLN) after a story she worked on in her spare time caught the attention of the news director when it aired. Her field reporting includes hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico, wildfires from Southern California and the Democratic and Republican national conventions. 

Then Susan plunged into business news at CNBC. In addition to daily economic stories, she reported about the Panama Canal from Central America, a trade bill from Kenya, a poor people’s bank from Bangladesh and the eve of Nelson Mandela’s election from South Africa. When she returned to CNN in New York, she interviewed some of the biggest names in business, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jack Welch and Richard Branson. She was embedded at the New York Stock Exchange after 9/11 and extensively covered the Great Recession. 

She has also written and reported stories for Huffington Post, Yahoo Finance and the Washington Post.

Susan’s teaching career includes the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and her alma mater,   William Paterson University, where she received the President’s Medal. The bulk of her teaching is at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, where she teaches advanced broadcast reporting and business journalism to honors, undergraduate and graduate students, and assists the school’s award-winning newscast. She has also reported for Arizona PBS on the border wall and co-led Study Abroad trips to Europe and the Middle East.

Susan has been a recipient of two East-West Center journalism fellowships in Asia and a RIAS fellowship in Europe. She is a former president and board member of the New York Financial Writers Association and her media training includes work with executives from UPS and Brown Forman in the U.S. and Europe. 

In her volunteer efforts,Susan spent a month at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh and served as a volunteer camp counselor at Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camp for kids with serious health issues. She is a former board member of the Child Health Foundation as well as an active board member of the Hoboken Community Center and the advisory committee of the William Paterson University Communications Department. Additionally,  has ongoing dedication to  numerous environmental causes and is an avid member of her local communities.