Multi award-winning Carol Carter has been a business journalist since 1978, when she was among the founding staff of Atlanta Business Chronicle, for which she served as editor, managing editor, reporter and columnist. She covered retail news for the Chronicle for five years, wrote a column about retail stores for Southline newspaper in Atlanta and was the consumer reporter for NBC-affiliate WXIA-TV's Noonday show in Atlanta. Carol has served as editor of nine magazines, written for the New York Times and produced award-winning educational videos. Currently, she lives (and shops) in Blue Ridge, Georgia, a small town in the Southern Appalachian mountains.