Bio

Nicole Carroll is Editor in Chief of USA TODAY. Prior she was VP/News and Editor of The Arizona Republic. Carroll led the project that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. Her Republic teams were twice named Pulitzer finalists (2011, 2013) in Breaking News. She serves as a member of the Pulitzer Prize board. Carroll graduated from the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in 1991. She earned her master’s degree from Georgetown University in 1996. Carroll joined The Arizona Republic in 1999, where she held positions ranging from city editor to planning editor to managing editor for features. She was named Executive Editor of the Republic and azcentral.com in 2008. That same year, Carroll was inducted into the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Alumni Hall of Fame. In 2015, she was named Vice President of News and Editor, and in 2016 she added regional responsibilities, serving as Southwest Regional Editor for the USA TODAY Network. Carroll received The National Press Foundation’s prestigious 2017 Benjamin C. Bradlee “Editor of the Year” award. She has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes three times (local news, breaking news and public service). She also has served as a judge for the national Hearst Journalism Awards, which honor the best in collegiate journalism. She is a past board member of the American Society of News Editors (ASNE). Her teams have won national awards including the Pulitzer, Scripps Howard, George Polk, IRE, Online News Association and the Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting.