Carole Carmichael

Carole joined The Seattle Times as Assistant Managing Editor/News in April 1991 where she oversaw the sports, metropolitan, business, and suburban news departments. She helped lead the paper’s comprehensive schools coverage that resulted in the publication of a 256-page book on local schools. In July 1998, she became Assistant Managing Editor/Features where she oversees the coverage of lifestyle, arts and entertainment, books, home real estate, travel, food, and the weekly magazine. Along with a team of editors and reporters, she was the coordinating editor on a public journalism project, The Front Porch Forum, with two local National Public Radio stations and the local public television station serving the Seattle-area. Since joining the features operation, she has inaugurated coverage of philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector as a new newsroom initiative. Additionally, she has reorganized the food, restaurant, nutrition, gardening, and arts and entertainment coverage in the Times. Under her direction, the features sections have been awarded the Missouri Lifestyle Awards from the University of Missouri for the past four years. She served two terms on the board of directors of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association (APME). In the fall of 1993, she was selected to participate in a Freedom Forum fellowship and spent a month in South Africa with five African-American journalists. In a four-page article, she wrote about the changes taking place in South Africa as that nation prepared for their first election of all its citizens. During the 2002-2003 academic year, Carole was a fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University in New York.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Carole came to The Seattle Times from the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, which she joined as the business editor of the Daily News. She became the publisher's executive assistant, learning the total newspaper operation and later became the paper's new business development manager. She began her work in news at United Press International in Omaha, Nebraska. She continued working in New York City for UPI, and later joined the Chicago Tribune as a business reporter before becoming business editor at the Philadelphia Daily News. She has received numerous awards including an advanced study fellowship in economics for journalists at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Carole holds a master's degree in management and human resources from Roosevelt University in Chicago and an undergraduate English degree from New York University. Prior to entering journalism, Carole taught high school and college-level English. She has worked as adjunct professor teaching graduate journalism and communications classes.