Sullivan is a native of Lackawanna, New York  and a graduate of Georgetown University.
She also holds an M.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Sullivan joined the Buffalo Times in 1980 as a summer intern, becoming the paper’s first female editor in 1999.

Sullivan was appointed to the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2011 and has been a juror several times and has served as the chairwoman of the commentary jury in 2006.
She has been elected a director of the American Society of News Editors and led its First Amendment committee.
Sullivan is also the author of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy, which was published by Columbia Global Reports in 2020.
Sullivan is a native of Lackawanna, New York  and a graduate of Georgetown University. She also holds an M.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Sullivan joined the Buffalo Times in 1980 as a summer intern, becoming the paper’s first female editor in 1999.
Sullivan was appointed to the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2011 and has been a juror several times and has served as the chairwoman of the commentary jury in 2006. She has been elected a director of the American Society of News Editors and led its First Amendment committee. Sullivan is also the author of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy, which was published by Columbia Global Reports in 2020.
Margaret Sullivan (journalist)