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Susannah Locke

Susannah Locke

Former Senior Audience Experience Editor

Susannah Locke has been a journalist at the intersection of editorial, design, and technology for 13+ years. While at Vox.com she was tasked with deepening the engagement and loyalty of our website audience. An original member of Vox’s staff, Susannah was previously Vox’s Editor of Special Projects, operating across the newsroom to manage priority editorial initiatives. Before that, she was a science reporter at Vox and an editor for five years over at Popular Science. She’s also had stints at Scientific American and Discover magazines and once worked as a neuroscientist. She holds a master’s degree in science, health, and environmental journalism from NYU and a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Haverford College.

Susannah is pretty sure that robots will take over someday, and she hopes they’ll be nice. She also hopes you’ll check out the story she co-edited about the most important trees protecting the climate, which won an Online Journalism Award in 2020.

Latest articles by Susannah Locke

The Gray Area
Embrace uncertaintyEmbrace uncertainty
Podcast
The Gray Area
Features
One Year LaterOne Year Later
Features

A collection of stories about the coronavirus pandemic — what we’ve been through and where we go from here.

By Susannah Locke
archives
Whose vote counts?Whose vote counts?
archives

Additional resources for Vox’s new Explained miniseries on Netflix.

By Susannah Locke
Climate
We asked 2020 Democratic candidates 6 key questions on climate changeWe asked 2020 Democratic candidates 6 key questions on climate change
Climate

Here’s what they said.

By Susannah Locke
Culture
Looking back at the tumultuous 2010sLooking back at the tumultuous 2010s
Culture

From the memes that broke the internet to the politics that broke us, Vox explains the moments that mattered this decade — on our fragile planet and beyond.

By Susannah Locke
Politics
We asked 2020 Democratic candidates 7 key questions on technologyWe asked 2020 Democratic candidates 7 key questions on technology
Politics

From breaking up Facebook and Google to facial recognition technology in policing, here is how some 2020 Democrats think of the biggest issues in tech.

By Susannah Locke
We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.
Culture

The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.

By Susannah Locke, Elizabeth Crane and 14 more
Movies
The best movies out this weekendThe best movies out this weekend
Movies

13 great films now in theaters.

By Susannah Locke
Politics
Marijuana legalization, explainedMarijuana legalization, explained
Politics

More states and countries are legalizing marijuana. Here’s what you need to know.

By Susannah Locke