Margaret Sullivan was The Washington Post’s media columnist from 2016 to 2022. Previously, she was the New York Times's public editor and the chief editor of the Buffalo News, her hometown paper.

Margaret Sullivan, one of the foremost chroniclers of the media, made headlines of her own on Wednesday after it was announced that she’d be leaving The Washington Post at the end of this month.

Margaret Sullivan (Author) 288 pages. $12.02. But if you want to get the gist of Newsroom Confidential’s core dispute with the mainstream press—what Sullivan dubs the “reality-based media ...

Media critic Margaret Sullivan is retiring her acclaimed column and leaving The Washington Post this month. “Working at the legendary Washington Post has been one of the greatest privileges of ...

In her new memoir, “Newsroom Confidential,” Margaret Sullivan argues that traditional ideas about reportorial objectivity need to be re-examined in an era of constant assaults on truth.

The singular success of—and general high regard for—Margaret Sullivan, the Times’ fifth and penultimate public editor, was the exception that proved the rule.Dogged, thoughtful, and unafraid ...

Sullivan went from Georgetown University in the 1980s to an internship at the Buffalo Evening News, and in 1999, she became the paper’s editor. She then became the ombudsman, or “public editor ...

Thanks to Margaret Sullivan for her clear-thinking, experience-based Aug. 22 column. It will be my fact-based guidepost for reading and assessing all coverage, written and televised, ...