Suzanne McBride

Suzanne McBride
Interim Senior Vice President and Provost
600 S. Michigan Ave., Room 200C
Chicago, IL 60605
smcbride@colum.edu
312-369-8907

Suzanne McBride is Interim Senior Vice President and Provost. A Professor of Journalism, she has served Columbia College Chicago in various roles since 2005, including Dean of Faculty Affairs, Dean of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Communication Department.

An expert on community news and investigative reporting, McBride has lectured in Asia, Canada, Europe and the United States. In 2012, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, where she taught at the Dublin Institute of Technology; she served as a speaker specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Thailand in 2009 and in Fiji in 2023. McBride is founding editor and publisher of two local news web sites where the work of hundreds of Columbia students has been published. She's also worked as an editor at the Chicago Sun-Times since 2016.

Before joining Columbia’s faculty, McBride was an assistant managing editor at The Indianapolis Star, where she also served as city editor, Statehouse bureau chief and an investigative reporter. She has worked as a manager for WTHR-13, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis; an editor for the Terre Haute Tribune-Star; a business reporter for The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne; and a legislative aide for former U.S. Rep. Tony P. Hall in Washington, D.C.

A Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Iowa, McBride holds a BA in Journalism and Psychology. She earned a MSJ in journalism with honors from Northwestern University.