As an award-winning correspondent at Reuters, Susan J. Smith Cornwell dedicated many years to reporting in Washington, D.C. on the White House and Capitol Hill. Cornwell had started out as an Illinois local newspaper journalist before her career took her abroad to Germany, the Soviet Union, and Britain, interviewing different world leaders, before returning to the United States. She recently retired in January 2022.
WPGU Political Editor Jane Knight sits down with Susan J. Smith Cornwell to discuss her time as features editor for the Daily Illini and her career since then.
Read The Daily Illini's profile of Cornwell here.
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