Sylvia Carter

Bio

Sylvia Carter grew up on a 360-acre farm in Missouri. She milked cows, brought in wood for the stove and learned from her grandmother how to make piecrust and from her mother how to make bread. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. For her part in a team that covered the riots at the Detroit Free Press in 1967, she won about 1/54 of a Pulitzer Prize that was awarded to the entire staff.

Before coming to Newsday, Sylvia also worked at the Quincy (illinois) Herald-Whig and The New York Daily News. In her 35 years at Newsday, Sylvia has been a general assignment reporter, an education writer, the founding editor of Kidsday and the first Eats columnist. She now writes the a la Carter column. She has won the Missouri Penney award and the Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York, of which she is a past president. She is also a trustee of the Anne O'Hare McCormick Scholarship fund and sits on the board of directors of the Art Institute of New York. She is listed in Who's Who in America and the Who's Who of American Women.