Background
Susan Roesgen is the daughter of William Roesgen, former publisher of several newspapers and editor of the Billings Gazette, and sister to Andy Roesgen, a freelance television reporter.
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Roesgen graduated magna cum laude from Montana State University in 1983, majoring in English Literature.
Career
She has worked in radio and television broadcasting for more than two decades, including prime time news anchor positions at several television stations. She has worked as a general assignment correspondent for from 2005 to 2009, and now works for New Orleans television station WGNO (Channel 26), the local American Broadcasting Company television affiliate. 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 Moscow State University 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-television 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.
Roesgen has worked as an anchor or host for the following stations:
WABC-television Channel 7 (New York)
KFMB-television Channel 8 (San Diego)
WITN-television Channel 7 (Washington, North Carolina)
KATV-television Channel 7 (Little Rock)
WDSU-television Channel 6 (New Orleans)
WGNO-television Channel 26 (New Orleans)
She has also worked as for WWNO-FM, a member station of National Public Radio. Roesgen was a classical music disc jockey, worked on the local show Getting There, and filed news stories for National Public Radio"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.
She joined the Channel in 2000, and co-hosted an international travel show, Today. Roesgen was hired by as the first news correspondent for their Gulf Coast division in 2005. She was based in New Orleans and covered Hurricane Katrina.
Other significant stories she covered for include the Jena Six events in Louisiana, the Drew Peterson case, and the death of Michael Jackson.
Roesgen"s coverage of the 2009 Red River flood in Fargo, North Dakota, in which she "talks to the camera while passing sandbags and riding a forklift" according to one observer, was mocked by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central"s The Daily Show. 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, ended Roesgen"s contract with the network.
