Susan Gonzalez

Susan Gonzalez

Editor, Social and Platforms

Susan Gonzalez is the editor of social media and platforms at Chalkbeat. She previously worked as a digital producer on the E.W. Scripps Company’s national news team and as a digital strategist at The Denver Post. Before moving over to the newspaper’s digital team, Gonzalez was an editor for the hyperlocal section of the Post known as YourHub. She also previously served as the digital editor for the Aurora Sentinel and was an intern for Chalkbeat’s Colorado bureau in 2015. Gonzalez was elected to the Online News Association’s Board of Directors and served from 2020-2022. She has also been involved with several other ONA programs, including serving as co-organizer for ONA Local-Rocky Mountain, being awarded the Google News Initiative Local Community Leader Scholarship through ONA, and being a Student Newsroom and Innovation Lab mentor for the ONA23 conference.

Students from the New York Youth Journalism Association were joined by a group of peers on a Zoom video call to discuss the insurrection at the Capitol and what they think it means for national politics.

Susan Gonzalez is Chalkbeat’s first-ever social media strategist. Here’s how she plans to engage and inform readers using social media.