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Author: Margot Susca
Margot Susca is a professor of journalism at American University in Washington, D.C.
She earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from The Florida State University in 2012. She studies violent video games and culture, media institutions, and media law and policy. Dr. Susca is a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she studied the fundamentals of urban reporting, feature writing and breaking news in the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Dr. Susca has worked as a reporter in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Florida, where the Society of Professional Journalists recognized her investigative work on high school graduation rates and the GED. In 2000, she graduated with a double major in journalism and political science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.