Carol Guensburg

Desk editor

Carol Guensburg is an editor for the Scripps Howard News Service, which she joined in October 2010. As an independent reporter/editor for several years, she edited for SHNS and National Public Radio’s Digital News division, and contributed stories to NPR.org, Edutopia and People magazines and other national and local news outlets. Reporting interests include education, food and nutrition, child/family policy and more.

Previously, Guensburg worked for the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, directing its Journalism Fellowships in Child & Family Policy program and serving as an associate editor for American Journalism Review and as senior editor for the Journalism Center on Children & Families.

Guensburg devoted two decades to newspapers, primarily the Milwaukee Journal and subsequent Journal Sentinel, at posts including Sunday magazine editor, food editor, reporter and copy editor. Earlier, she held editing and reporting positions with the Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman, the Raleigh News & Observer and the late Miami News. A Wisconsin cheesehead, she lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband, Craig Gilbert (the Journal Sentinel’s Washington bureau chief) and their two sons.

Gasoline

Pressure at the Pump

SHNS' Isaac Wolf reports on an independent lab test of national gasoline brands for detergent additives, which affect the health of vehicle engines and environment; some automotive and fuel experts contend the Environmental Protection Agency's minimum standard is outdated.

Detergent levels vary, fueling differences in gas quality

Animal Testing

Crucial or Cruel?

Tens of millions of animals are still sacrificed to biomedical research projects in labs across America each year. Scientists say the studies have to go on to find cures; animal protectionists say much of the work is dubious, but all sides agree better and cheaper technology needs to be found.

In animal-testing debate, fur still flies