Co-Host and Executive Producer of In Retrospect
& Emmy-winning Journalist and Filmmaker

Susie Banikarim is the co-host and Executive Producer of In Retrospect. She is a frequent speaker & panelist, focused on media issues & criticism, politics, pop culture and diversity.

An Emmy-winning journalist and filmmaker, she has run newsrooms at VICE, Gizmodo Media Group and The Daily Beast. She is the director of the 2020 documentary, “Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press.” Susie began her journalism career at ABC News, where she was a producer for Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos, and went on to help launch Katie Couric’s talk show. Before all that, she was a producer on Wife Swap. Susie was born in Iran but spent her teen years in California, reading Sassy, watching soap operas and listening to the Beach Boys on her Walkman.