Suki Dardarian is the former editor and senior vice president at the Minnesota Star Tribune, where she has presided over award-winning public-service journalism, spearheaded the newsroom’s digital evolution and has been a vocal advocate for the First Amendment and open government.

Dardarian joined the Star Tribune as senior managing editor more than a decade ago before assuming the role of editor in March 2022.

During her leadership, the newsroom earned a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of the murder of George Floyd and the aftermath and was a finalist for Pulitzers for local reporting and investigations for projects examining rape investigations, juvenile justice, financial-services companies, and the treatment of people with disabilities.

Dardarian began her career as a reporter at the Everett Herald in Washington state in 1981. She spent 12 years at the News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash., in various roles including reporter, editor and senior editor, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. She then spent more than 14 years at The Seattle Times in news leadership, including as managing editor. During that time, The Times earned two Pulitzers and was named as finalist multiple times.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Dardarian was inducted into the UW Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame in 2022 and delivered its commencement address earlier this year. She currently sits on the advisory board of the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State University, an international leader in research on ethics in public communication. Dardarian is a former president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and twice served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes.

She is married to Peter Callaghan, a reporter at MinnPost. They have twin adult daughters, Anna and Blair.

Dardarian is the 2024 winner of the National Press Foundation’s Editor of the Year Award. She also briefed National Press Foundation fellows in February 2025: A Master Class in Newsroom Leadership: The Star Tribune After George Floyd’s Murder.