Rodell was born in the United States, but lived for many years in Australia . She began her newspaper career at the
Age in Melbourne in 1981. She worked in Melbourne for ten years, as a reporter and editor at the
National Times,
Australian Society and the
Melbourne Herald, and also as an editor at Penguin Australia. She returned to the United States in 1990, and was for some years a member of the editorial board at the
New York Times. In 1997 she moved to North Carolina, where she wrote a regular column for the
Raleigh News & Observer. In 2003 she became editorial page editor of the
Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, and in 2006 she was a visiting lecturer in journalism at the University of Tasmania. (Source : University of Tasmania. Journalism, Media and Communications. 'Visiting and Guest Lecturers in 2006 : Susanna Rodell.'
http://www.utas.edu.au/journalism/visiting_lecturers.htm (sighted 27.9.07)
