The Washington Post’s media columnist Margaret Sullivan has been honored with the 2020 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.
Sullivan joined the Post in 2016, before that, she was a public editor at The New York Times. Prior to that, she was editor and vice president at The Buffalo News where she led a 200-member newsroom, with an emphasis on local enterprise reporting.
Sullivan was also a member of the Pulitzer Prize board from 2011 to 2012 and was twice elected as a director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, where she led the First Amendment committee.
Sullivan is a B.A. in English language and literature/letters from Georgetown University and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
