Margaret Sullivan

Ms. Sullivan began at her hometown newspaper, The Buffalo News, as a summer reporting intern in 1980 and became editor in 1999. She was the paper's first female editor and the sixth editor in the paper's history. She became its first female vice president in 2001. The paper recently has won top statewide honors for public service reporting for two consecutive years and has won two national writing awards. Ms. Sullivan was a reporter and metro columnist for The News for eight years before becoming an editor, and was The New York Times' stringer in Western New York for five years. She has also written for Columbia Journalism Review, The American Editor and the Washington Post. Ms. Sullivan is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she was arts editor of the student newspaper. Her first journalism job was editorial assistant at Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C., followed by a reporting internship at Gannett's Niagara Falls Gazette. She earned her masters degree with distinction from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1980.