PERSON: Susan Page

Washington Bureau Chief

Susan Page is the Washington bureau chief for USA TODAY. She also appears each week on the journalists’ roundtable for CNN’s Sunday morning interview program, “Late Edition” and regularly guest-hosts “The Diane Rehm Show,” a daily two-hour interview/call-in show on WAMU and National Public Radio. She has won national awards for her reporting, including the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Deadline Reporting on the Presidency and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence.

Susan has covered six presidential elections and four White House administrations. She’s interviewed the past seven presidents - three while they were in office — as well as seven of the men they defeated for that job. She joined USA TODAY as White House correspondent in 1995 after covering the White House and national politics for Newsday.

She is the immediate past president of the White House Correspondents’ Association (for 1999-2000), a member of the board of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, a past member of the board of the Washington Press Club Foundation and a member of the Gridiron Club, a 117-year-old organization of 60 Washington journalists.

A native of Wichita, Kansas, Page received a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Daily Northwestern. She received a master’s degree from Columbia University, where she was a Pulitzer Fellow.

— usatoday.com