Susan J. Demas

Current

• Political Analyst at Michigan Information & Research Service
• Syndicated political columnist at Self Employed (Self-employed)

Past

• Assistant Metro Editor at Battle Creek Enquirer
• Political Reporter at Jackson Citizen Patriot

Education

• University of Iowa

Connections

16 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Susan J. Demas’s Summary

Demas’ work has run in or on more than 60 national, international and regional media outlets including NBC News, Newsweek, Forbes, National Public Radio, RealClearPolitics, The Atlantic, the Guardian U.K., Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Herald, Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press, Toronto Sun, San Jose Mercury News, Des Moines Register, WWJ-AM in Detroit, WNEM-TV5 in Saginaw and WILX-TV10 in Lansing. Demas started her journalism career at The (Cedar Rapids) Gazette, the second-largest newspaper in Iowa, where she specialized in women’s issues and Middle East affairs and covered the 2004 Iowa Presidential caucuses. In 2004, Demas reported from the U.S. Army Base at Ft. Dix, N.J., on units training for the Iraq war.

Susan J. Demas’s Specialties:

Political analysis, public policy research and reports, feature writing, history research and articles, opinion writing, editing, newsroom management, writing coach

Susan J. Demas’s Experience

• Political Analyst

  Michigan Information & Research Service

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Demas is a political analyst for Michigan Information & Research Service (MIRS) covering the Senate and presidential election. She writes a syndicated political column for the Detroit News, Lansing State Journal and Battle Creek Enquirer, where she served as Assistant Metro Editor.

• Syndicated political columnist

  Self Employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

• Assistant Metro Editor

  Battle Creek Enquirer

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Newspapers industry)

  February 2007 — November 2007 (10 months)

• Political Reporter

  Jackson Citizen Patriot

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  March 2006 — February 2007 (1 year )

Susan J. Demas’s Education

• University of Iowa

Additional Information

Susan J. Demas’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Susan J. Demas’s Interests:

Writing, photography, history, politics, hiking, travel

Susan J. Demas’s Groups:

Society of Professional Journalists
Committee for Concerned Journalists
Association of Young Journalists
Mensa

Susan J. Demas’s Honors:

2006 Knight Foundation Fellow in Nonprofits Journalism
2006 Michigan Press Association second place series on the rise of superchurches across the nation
2005 Associated Press first place breaking news story on the world’s largest Ku Klux Klan auction
2005 Society of Professional Journalists, Detroit chapter, third place columnist

Susan J. Demas’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• business deals
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