# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carol-sutton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:07:32.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carol-sutton"
name: "Carol Sutton"
slug: "carol-sutton"
description: "Carol Sutton was an American journalist. She got her journalism degree from the University of Missouri. In 1974 she became the first female managing editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. She was cited as the example of female achievement in journalism when Time named American Women as the 1975 People of the Year. During her tenure at the paper, it was awarded the 1971 Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence and in 1976 the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for its coverage of school desegregation in Louisville. She is also credited with significantly raising the number of minority reporters on staff."
tagline: "American journalist and first woman editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper (1933-1985)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1933-06-29"
deathDate: "1985-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.37
  momentum:             4.411764705882353
  historical:           8.072426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton"
    title: "Carol Sutton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كارول سوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كارول سوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton_(Journalistin)"
    title: "Carol Sutton (Journalistin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton_(journalist)"
    title: "Carol Sutton (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton_(periodista)"
    title: "Carol Sutton (periodista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton"
    title: "Carol Sutton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton_(%C3%BAjs%C3%A1g%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Carol Sutton (újságíró)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton"
    title: "Carol Sutton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2939851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump