Susan Roesgen is an American television reporter. She has worked in radio and television broadcasting for more than two decades, including prime time news anchor positions at several TV stations. She has worked as a general assignment correspondent for

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from 2005 to 2009, and now works for

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TV station

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(Channel 26), the local

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television affiliate.

Early life and career

Susan Roesgen is the daughter of William Roesgen, former publisher of several newspapers and editor of the

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, and sister to Andy Roesgen, a freelance television reporter. Roesgen graduated

magna cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sout ...

from

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in 1983, majoring in

English Literature English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian d ...

. Roesgen says she "never planned to be in journalism. I thought I'd be some kind of writer, but not in the media." She started as a copyeditor for the MSU Exponent newspaper, and her first television job was writing commercials. She eventually joined the news department, and worked her way up to anchoring the news at WABC-TV in New York City. Roesgen's reporting has taken her to an Army barracks in Haiti, the Sea of Galilee, and to the pyramids of Egypt. She and two colleagues at

WDSU-TV WDSU (channel 6) is a television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Hearst Television. The station's studios are located on Howard Avenue in the city's New Orleans Central Business District, Centra ...

received regional

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s for the documentary ''A Grave Injustice'', on the theft of artifacts from New Orleans historic cemeteries. She also won a Louisiana Associated Press Award for her reporting in Israel.National Geographic News
July, 2001 Roesgen has worked as an anchor or host for the following stations: *

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Channel 7 (

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) *

KFMB-TV KFMB-TV (channel 8) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., it has studios on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, and its transmitter i ...

Channel 8 (

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) *

WITN-TV WITN-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Washington, North Carolina, United States, serving Eastern North Carolina as an affiliate of NBC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Gray Media, the station has primary studio facilities on East ...

Channel 7 (

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) * KATV-TV Channel 7 (

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) *

Channel 6 (

) *

WGNO-TV WGNO (channel 26) is a television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside WNOL-TV (channel 38), an owned-and-operated station of The CW. T ...

Channel 26 (

) She has also worked as for

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, a member station of

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. Roesgen was a classical music disc jockey, worked on the local show ''Getting There'', and filed news stories for NPR's national broadcasts. She was honored by the Press Club of New Orleans with first place awards in the category of general news in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and in series category in 2005.

National Geographic

She joined the

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in 2000, and co-hosted an international travel show, ''National Geographic Today''.

CNN

Roesgen was hired by CNN as the first news correspondent for their Gulf Coast division in 2005. She was based in New Orleans and covered

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. Other significant stories she covered for CNN include the

Jena Six The Jena Six were six African Americans, black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana, convicted in the 2006 beating of Justin Barker, a White Americans, white student at the local Jena High School, which they also attended. Barker was injured on December ...

events in Louisiana, the

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case, and the death of

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. Roesgen's coverage of the

2009 Red River flood The 2009 Red River flood along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States and Manitoba in Canada brought record flood levels to the Fargo-Moorhead area. The flood was a result of saturated and frozen ground, s ...

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, in which she "talks to the camera while passing sandbags and riding a forklift" according to one observer, was mocked by

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's ''

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''. She moved to

's Chicago bureau in September, 2007. On April 15, 2009, Roesgen interviewed a number of people at a 2009 Tea Party protest in Chicago. The interview attracted a degree of partisan commentary. In July, 2009, CNN ended Roesgen's contract with the network.

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