Susan Carlson (born November 24, 1969)[1] is an American former broadcast journalist and news anchor.
[2] She attended Seton Academy in South Holland, Illinois, before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Loyola University Chicago, where she graduated magna cum laude.
[3] Carlson began her career as a radio reporter and morning show anchor for WXLC and WKRS.
She became a television traffic reporter for WGN-TV in Chicago in 1995 and worked there until 2002, when she took a job with WBBM-TV, eventually becoming co-anchor of the morning news.
She left WMAQ in 2020 and announced plans to become an audiobook narrator and voiceover artist.