Charlie Scudder
Journalist • Educator • Student Media Leader
I help journalists, newsrooms and student media organizations tell better stories and build stronger journalism.
I teach journalism and work with student newsrooms on leadership, innovation, audience and sustainability.
Teaching + Student Media
Through Scudder Storycraft, I help journalists and newsrooms tackle difficult stories, stronger strategy and better storytelling.
Consulting + Coaching
I've spent my career reporting stories about crime, politics, science, culture and the wildly weird corners in between.
Journalism
Hi, I’m Charlie.
I'm a journalist and educator. I tell stories, teach people to tell them and help newsrooms do it better.
After more than a decade in professional journalism, my focus now is preparing the next generation of journalists and building stronger student newsrooms. I teach reporting, media literacy, ethics and critical thinking, and work with student journalists on leadership, strategy and innovation.
My reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Texas Monthly, Garden & Gun, The Dallas Morning News and elsewhere. I was part of a Dallas Morning News team named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and my work has earned national honors including an Edward R. Murrow Award. I'm also the creator and host of the investigative podcast The Unforgotten: Unnatural Causes.
I'm a graduate of the Indiana University School of Journalism, where I was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student, and hold a master's degree in American studies from Southern Methodist University, where I'm currently a professor of practice and advisor of The Daily Campus.
I'm also an award-winning homebrewer and certified craft beer judge.