From the time that Carrie could write, she carried a pen and a little notebook to jot down her observations of the world. A beautiful flower. An interesting conversation on the playground. The weather. Without knowing it, she was taking her first steps towards becoming a professional journalist. The first real taste for the vocation came in high school, when she joined the monthly newspaper at Lakota West High School. There, she began to hone her reporting, interviewing, and news writing skills. By graduation she had decided to study journalism at Bowling Green State University, where she joined the independent daily student newspaper, The BG News, spending three years writing, editing, and eventually becoming editor-in-chief. College courses in journalism – but also political science, international studies, economics, history, and statistics – taught Carrie to thoughtfully, ethically, accurately, and impartially cover the world we live in.

Carrie’s first job out of college was as an education reporter, covering preschool to post-graduate education at The Middletown Journal, in Middletown, Ohio. About a year and a half later, in 2006, she accepted an offer from The Cincinnati Enquirer and worked as a staff writer for 12 years, covering a variety of topics, including community news, public safety, local politics, and environmental issues. While there, some of her pieces were published in USA Today, and other USA Today Co. newspapers across the country, and Carrie won several local and state journalism awards, most notably the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting in 2018. As a member of The Enquirer’s investigative and data reporting teams, Carrie led the data collection for the winning project that year, awarded to the entire Enquirer staff, called “Seven Days of Heroin.” 

In the fall of 2018, Carrie decided to step out on her own and become a freelance journalist. Today, she writes routinely for Cincinnati Magazine, where she has been an associate editor since 2025, and frequently writes for Realm Magazine, a quarterly publication for Greater Cincinnati CEOs. She’s been a stringer for The New York Times since 2022, most recently interviewing local Catholics about President Donald Trump’s harsh words towards Pope Leo XIV.

Throughout Carrie’s now 20-year career, she’s conducted thousands of interviews, from the steps of Cincinnati City Hall to the highlands of Guatemala; paddling a canoe down the Ohio River and searching for rare mussels in its tributaries. She’s constantly inspired by the people she meets and the places she sees, and hopes that her work helps explore and explain the wonders and complexities of the world we live in. If you’ve got a story idea or want to reach out to Carrie about something she has written, feel free to email her at carrieblackmorewrites@gmail.com. Thanks always for reading and supporting independent, local media.