Susan Ellerbach Takes the Helm at Tulsa World

Susan Ellerbach didn’t have to think twice. As far back as she could remember, a journalist was all she’d wanted to be.

But while choosing the subject for her eighth-grade “career notebook” project was easy, she still needed to do an interview for it. And the one she was able to score — at a weekly suburban Kansas City newspaper — continues to stick in her mind.

She interviewed a female editor there, Ellerbach recalls, and “she never mentioned that there were few women editors anywhere at the time.”

“She was one, so I knew I could be one.”

What Ellerbach didn’t know then was just how far her dream career would take her. On Nov. 3, Ellerbach — managing editor of the Tulsa World since 1995 — became the company’s new executive editor, making her the first woman to ever lead the World’s newsroom.

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