Susanne Reber is an award winning veteran investigative editor, author and executive producer. She is the co founder of Reveal and the former executive editor of the Peabody Award-winning investigative radio program and podcast. She has a knack for innovation and specializes in assembling and managing strong collaborative teams to investigate, create and tell stories in multiple mediums.

Prior to founding her own consulting practice Susanne Reber worked at The Center for Investigative Reporting where she held various senior editorial roles, including Director or Digital Media responsible for film, audio and digital.

Her investigative projects have garnered her three Peabody Awards, an Emmy award, a DuPont award among many others and were showcased in national and international film festivals.

In 2013 she co created Reveal to showcase investigative narrative stories. She took the show from idea to reality. The pilot episode won the team a Peabody award. In 2015 after the team was fully staffed Reber moved into the role of Executive Editor recruiting, cultivating and managing partner relationships. That work took her all over the country and the world. Reveal ramped up quickly and is now airing on 450 public radio stations with more than 1.7 million downloads.

Prior to joining CIR in 2012, Reber formed and led NPR's first Investigations Unit. Prior to moving to the U.S., Reber spent 23 years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., where she held various editorial leadership roles, including deputy managing editor of National Radio News and executive producer of CBC's Michener Award-winning Investigative Unit.

Reber is the co-author of Starlight Tour – The last lonely night of Neil Stonechild. She is currently working on a new release of the book. (Random House 2019).

Reber also co-wrote and produced Faint Hope a five-part nationally broadcast audio non fiction docu-drama based on the suspicious death of Laurence Stocking. (CBC Radio Drama)
Reber graduated from the University of London with degrees in German and French language and literature. She did her graduate work in broadcast journalism at City University London. Reber is based in Washington DC and splits her time between the US, Switzerland and Canada.