Scarlett Syse

As group editor for Columbus-based Home News Enterprises and then AIM Media Indiana, Scarlett Syse supervised news operations at daily newspapers in Columbus, Franklin, Greenfield and Seymour, and weeklies in Pendleton, New Palestine, Fortville-McCordsville, Nashville and Brownstown.

From the time she started covering sports while in high school through four decades of journalism, Syse has aimed to “tell stories, be a fierce champion for readers, afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted and give a voice to the voiceless.”

She was editor at The Shelbyville News before becoming online editor at the Daily Journal in Franklin. She was promoted to editor of the Daily Journal and led the staff to the Hoosier State Press Association Blue Ribbon Award for best daily in 1999.

In 2013, she was honored as the Local Media Association Editor of the Year, and in 2017 received the HSPA Distinguished Service Award. She is a graduate of Marquette University.

Syse retired in 2018. She volunteers at the Interchurch Food Pantry of Johnson County and works to help Afghans resettle in America. She still describes herself as “once a muckraker, always a muckraker.” She lives in Franklin.