Susan Carroll, an NBC journalist from Tucson, Arizona, died suddenly over the weekend. She was just promoted to senior editor at NBC News Digital. Susy, as she was affectionately known by her loved ones, was a poetic writer, tenacious reporter, elegant editor, loving mother, and devoted friend. . Her interest includes reporting in Guatemala on migrant children fleeing danger to reach the United States. She enjoyed stories as large as Texas and was enthusiastic about keeping the state accountable.
Susan Carroll GoFundMe
A fundraiser was created on GoFundMe by Lomi Kriel and 2 others to help Susan’s boys, Ollie and Owen, with their college funds. Kriel, Dug Begley, and Mizanur Rahman, started the fundraiser with the aim of honoring Susan’s memory, and her significant contribution to democracy as well as humanity, with a college fund for her two boys. She liked playing pranks on coworkers and showing them compassion and care on important occasions like birthdays. She was an impassioned journalist, but more significantly, a devoted mother who once wrote a children’s book with illustrations in honor of a friend’s childhood experiences.
Her greatest prize, though, was her two boys, straight-A students who, on weekends when she wasn’t chasing a story or following up on public records requests, she could usually be seen cheering from the stands at their baseball or soccer games; like their mother, they are giving, kind, and loving kids who love their family and are fascinated by the world.
Susy dreamt big, laughed hard, and strove to improve the world for Ollie and Owen, just as much as she cared about all the other children in the world who were less fortunate.
Who is Susan Carroll?
Susan Carroll was an investigative reporter, a senior editor, and an immigration correspondent for a newspaper. She worked for the Houston Chronicle from 2006 to 2021. Her work at NBC included a series of articles about a Loving County, Texas, cattle rustling sting that were later picked up by the New York Times. The pieces were widely assimilated, meeting the classic newspaper definition of “readers.” There were 51 people living in the county. She managed extensive investigative projects on the nation’s child welfare system abuses, the fight for LGBTQ inclusion in schools, and the Maui wildfires while working as an editor at NBC. She collaborated with ProPublica on these stories.
As senior editor for investigations at the Houston Chronicle, she headed a team of around twelve reporters who were investigating Texas’s lackluster readiness for the COVID-19 pandemic. She was the first journalist in the nation to investigate the abuse of youngsters detained in federal care as unaccompanied immigrants in-depth. While working for ProPublica in 2021, Susy edited stories about homelessness in San Francisco, school overpolicing in the Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, and sheriff’s departments in Louisiana. She was an enthusiastic supporter of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, a kind and cooperative coworker, and a valuable reporter mentor.
She also investigated the administration of Texas’ $44 billion public school endowment and the ignored warnings for Hurricane Harvey. She brought attention to the risks and frequency of child injuries caused by cars operating in reverse at slow speeds, which led to government legislation mandating backup cameras for cars and trucks.