Susan Roesgen Biography
Susan Roesgen is a television reporter in the United States. She has over two decades of experience in radio and television broadcasting, including prime-time news anchor positions at several TV stations.
Susan Roesgen Age
Susan was born in 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. Susan is 62 years old as of 2023.
Susan Roesgen Education
In 1983, Roesgen earned a magna cum laude degree in English literature from Montana State University.
Susan Roesgen Family- Parents
Roesgen is the sister of freelance television reporter Andy Roesgen and the daughter of William Roesgen, a former newspaper proprietor and editor of the Billings Gazette.
Susan Roesgen CNN
In 2005, CNN hired Roesgen as the first news correspondent for their Gulf Coast division. She was in New Orleans at the time and covered Hurricane Katrina. Other notable stories she covered for CNN were the Jena Six events in Louisiana, the Drew Peterson case, and Michael Jackson’s death. Roesgen’s 2009 Red River flood coverage in Fargo, North Dakota. In September 2007, she relocated to CNN’s Chicago bureau. Roesgen interviewed several people at a Chicago Tea Party protest on April 15, 2009. CNN terminated Roesgen’s contract in July of 2009.
Susan Roesgen Career
She was a general assignment correspondent for CNN from 2005 to 2009, and she now works for the local ABC television affiliate, WGNO (Channel 26) in New Orleans. She began her career as a copyeditor for the MSU Exponent, and her first television job was writing ads. She later joined the news department and rose to the position of news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City. Roesgen’s reportage has led her to a Haitian army camp, the Sea of Galilee, and the Egyptian pyramids. She and two colleagues from WDSU-TV won regional Emmys for their work on the documentary A Grave Injustice, which focused on the theft of antiquities from New Orleans’ historic cemeteries.
She has also worked for WWNO-FM, a National Public Radio member station, where she 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 the series category in 2005.
Susan Roesgen Awards
She and two colleagues from WDSU-TV won regional Emmys for their work on the documentary A Grave Injustice, which focused on the theft of antiquities from New Orleans’ historic cemeteries. She was also honored by the Louisiana Associated Press for her reporting in Israel.
Susan Roesgen Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.