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Campbell’s first full-time journalism job was with the Memphis Commercial Appeal, where she wrote a series of front-page stories exposing political misconduct among elected officials in Collierville, Tennessee. In 1997, she moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where she gained experience in investigative reporting and narrative journalism. She graduated from the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting in 1998, and used her investigative and storytelling skills later that year to write a five-part series on the St. Louis Public Schools. The series uncovered corruption and waste in the city school system, and resulted in her nomination as a finalist for the Livingston Awards, the largest all-media, general reporting prizes in American journalism. The series also caught the attention of the Post-Dispatch's editorial page editor, who invited Campbell to join the newspaper’s editorial board. At age 24, she became its youngest member. Campbell wrote daily editorials on a wide variety of topics, from education and social issues to media and culture, and her work earned her a Fellowship for Editorial Writers from the Hechinger Institute at Columbia University. In 2000, Campbell won a $50,000 Phillips Journalism Fellowship that allowed her to take a year’s leave from her newspaper job and travel the country, researching and writing about a little-noticed trend that had attracted her attention: the appeal of traditional religion and morality to a growing number of young Americans. The result of her research was The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (Loyola Press, 2002), a critically acclaimed book that has been featured in nearly 100 magazines and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Post, National Review, and Christianity Today. The New Faithful, which is in its sixth printing, has been adopted as required reading by several colleges and universities and was a finalist for the 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award. Since its publication, Campbell has received speaking invitations from institutions across America, including requests to present her research to staff members at the White House and on Capitol Hill. She recently presented a copy of The New Faithful to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, where she was serving as a North American delegate to an international Vatican Congress on women. In 2002, Campbell began work toward a doctorate in philosophy at Saint Louis University. She interrupted her studies later that year to accept a job as one of six speechwriters to President George W. Bush. Campbell worked directly with the President on major policy addresses, writing his speeches on such topics as education, the faith-based initiative, the fight against AIDS, and judicial appointments. Now a fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, Campbell frequently discusses issues of religion, politics, and culture in the print and broadcast media. She has appeared on more than 70 radio and television shows, serving as a commentator on such networks as FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, ABC News Now, EWTN, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Print and broadcast journalists from as far away as Denmark, Germany, Italy and Australia have interviewed her for their publications and television broadcasts, and she has been quoted by the Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Denver Post, and Washington Times, among many others. Campbell hosts her own international television and radio show, "Faith & Culture." The television show airs twice weekly on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio show airs three times weekly on EWTN Global Radio Network and Sirius Satellite Channel 160. Filmed on location in cities across America, "Faith & Culture" features Campbell's weekly interviews with prominent authors, activists, artists, and public intellectuals discussing the day's most contentious social and political issues. EWTN is the world's largest religious media network, transmitting programs to more than 105 million homes in 110 countries. Throughout her career, Campbell's writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications and media outlets, including the Weekly Standard, First Things, The New York Times online, Washington Times, Toronto Star, Charlotte Observer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Tampa Tribune, Washingtonian Magazine, Crisis Magazine, New Atlantis, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter, The Catholic World Report, Catholic Digest, Human Life Review, Religion News Service, Catholic News Service, Townhall.com, Beliefnet.com, ChristianityToday.com, and PoliticalMavens.com. She writes a weekly op-ed column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has served as a regular columnist for National Review Online, Lay Witness, and Our Sunday Visitor, the nation's largest independent Catholic newsweekly. Her bimonthly Lay Witness column, "Finding God in All Things," won third place in the 2008 Catholic Press Association Awards for Best Regular Column in a magazine, with judges commending her "near complete mastery of the topics she covers” and ability to tackle controversial topics “without resorting to demagoguery but while still unequivocally stating her views." Campbell's essay on Alzheimer's disease, "Hope in the Ruins," is included in Take Heart: Catholic Writers on Hope in Our Time (Crossroads, 2007), which the publisher describes as a collection of 35 essays from "the most beloved Catholic literary figures, scholars, and theologians of our day." In addition to awards previously mentioned, Campbell was honored by her alma mater when Marquette University's College of Arts and Sciences named her its 2004 Young Alumna of the Year. Photo by Doug DeMark
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Colleen
Carroll Campbell began her writing career at Marquette University in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where she served as editor-in-chief of the campus magazine, president
of the campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a
freelance writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She won Society of Professional Journalist Mark of Excellence Awards for her writing and
editing, and nearly a dozen awards, scholarships, and memberships in honorary
societies for her academic and journalistic achievements. In 1995, she was
chosen from a nationwide pool of college students for an American Society of
Magazine Editors (ASME) editorial internship with Washingtonian Magazine.
The following year, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa
from Marquette with a Bachelor of Arts degree in writing-intensive English and a minor in
political science.