Nicole Carroll is the executive director of NEWSWELL and professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She is the past top editor at The Arizona Republic, leading the newsroom to a Pulitzer Prize, and editor in chief at USA TODAY. In 2018, she was named the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award by the National Press Foundation. She is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.