Margaret Sullivan
Washington, D.C.
Former columnist
Education: Georgetown University; Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism
Margaret Sullivan was the media columnist for The Washington Post from 2016 to 2022. Before joining The Post, she was the New York Times's public editor and previously the chief editor of the Buffalo News, her hometown paper, where she started as a summer intern. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her memoir, "Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life," was published by Macmillan in October 2022. She is also the author of "Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy" (Col