After spending years leading news sites just over the state border, Lynne Sullivan has been named regional executive editor of The Providence Journal and The Newport Daily News.
Sullivan has been executive editor of The Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette since 2013 and added The Enterprise of Brockton and the Standard-Times of New Bedford to her responsibilities in 2019. During her tenure, she has focused on leading her newsrooms in delivering impactful journalism that matters to the communities they serve.
Sullivan takes the helm of the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States — The Providence Journal — and will also oversee The Journal’s sister Rhode Island paper, the Newport Daily News.
Coming into this role, she will be looking to increase The Journal’s standing as the preeminent news outlet for Rhode Island readers, with a focus on listening to and engaging with readers.
She started her career at The Herald News as a summer intern in 1994, returning in 1997 as a copy editor. In 2003, she left the paper to work as a designer and editor for the Fall River Spirit and the other Hathaway newspapers. In 2008, she returned to The Herald News as special sections and entertainment editor, becoming news editor in 2012 and editor in chief in 2013.
Sullivan received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Boston College and a master of science in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.