Susan Tifft

Quick Facts

Full Name	Susan Tifft
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Feb 14, 1951(1951-02-14)
Age	73
Date Of Death	2010-04-01
Birthplace	Rumford
Country	United States
Birth City	Maine
Horoscope	Aquarius

Susan Tifft Biography

Susan Tifft is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on February 14, 1951 in Rumford, Maine, United States. Tifft was the daughter of Austin Tifft and Elizabeth Tifft in Rumford, Maine on February 14th in 1951. She grew up in the town as well as in St. Louis, where her father relocated to for job in the early 1960s. She had two younger siblings along with an elder brother that passed away as a young man in Maine. Tifft later stated of her childhood, she believed the way the time she “grew up in a Currier & Ives Christmas card, more in the 19th century than in the 20th.”

Tifft married her husband Alex Jones, during post-graduate studies at Harvard between 1981 and 1982. They got married in 1985.

With her husband Alex Jones, Tifft covered the story of the Courier-Journal sale in 1986; Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for his reportage of the story. In 1991 they co-authored The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty, a book on the Louisville newspaper owners. In 1999, the pair co-authored The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, the first full-scale portrait of Adolph Ochs and his descendants. The book won the A. M. Sperber Award for Exceptional Achievement in Writing and Research and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography.

From 1998 to 2009, Tifft served as the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She shared the Patterson chair with Jones until the fall of 2000, when she became the sole Patterson professor. During this time she also served as a member of the Duke Magazine editorial advisory board.

After having graduated at Duke, Tifft began working with Joel Fleishman, professor of public policy and law and public policy, to edit his book on reforming the campaign finance system. Tifft used her expertise to get job opportunities at Washington, D. C. and was also the press secretary assistant at the Federal Election Commission, press secretary for the 1988 Democratic National Convention, and speechwriter for the Carter-Mondale campaign for president. The year 1982 was when Tifft was hired by Time magazine covering national politics. She later rose to the position of associate editor before resigning from the magazine in the year 1991.

Susan Tifft Net Worth

Susan Tifft is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susan Tifft 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Susan Tifft (February 14, 1951 -April 1 April 1, 2010) was an American journalist as well as an author and teacher.

Tifft went to Duke University, where she was the commencement speaker, and was the first Young Trustee to be elected. Her graduation was in 1973 and she earned a bachelor’s in English. While at Duke she was an the Durham’s intern at ABC affiliate WTVD which covered state legislatures in the North Carolina state legislature and Senator Jesse Helm’s first year in office. Tifft also wrote articles for the the campus The Chronicle newspaper The Chronicle and for The Archive The Archive, which is a student literary magazine. Tifft also obtained an advanced master’s in administration of public affairs at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1982.

At Time, one of Tifft’s first major assignments was to cover the 1984 presidential election, a task she found difficult to take on so early in her career. She received one of her early breaks in 1986, when she happened to be working late when word arrived that Ferdinand Marcos had fled the Philippines. Tift wrote the cover story overnight and covered subsequent events in the Philippines. As associate editor for the education section from 1988 to 1991, Tifft wrote numerous articles on national education. One cover story, entitled “Who’s Teaching our Children?”, won the 1989 Benjamin Fine Award for Excellence in Education Writing.

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