Margaret Sullivan

Democratic presidential hopeful former US Representative ...

Sullivan: Debate format is an embarrassment. Here’s how to make it better.

July 31, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

About 40 minutes after the start of Tuesday night's Democratic primary debate, I got an email from a Washington Post reader with this subject line: "I don't care for this."

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before ...

Sullivan: Embattled and in over his head, Mark Zuckerberg should – at least – step down as Facebook chairman

November 19, 2018 at 6:59 p.m.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once set out a bit of digital -- world wisdom that became his company's informal motto: "Move fast and break things."

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump (R) gets into a heated exchange with CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta (C) as NBC correspondent Peter Alexander (L) looks on during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on November 7, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

Column: Defend First Amendment principle. CNN should sue Trump for revoking press pass

November 9, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta is a smart, tough reporter. He can also be a grandstander who seems to thrive on conflict with President Donald Trump, and doesn't always...

This Aug. 8, 2015 photo suppled by U.S. Army show an aerial view of Kwajalein Atoll, where a Space Fence complex is being in the Marshall Islands. The US military ignored warnings about rising seas to build a space radar costing nearly a billion dollars on a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Space Fence system is considered vital for keeping astronauts and satellites safe by tracking space junk as small as a baseball.(Photo/U.S. Army via AP)

Commentary: The media must cover the planet’s destruction like it’s the only story that matters

October 12, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

After a week of dire news -- the certainty of our ruptured nation, the likelihood of a journalist being murdered -- the United Nation's report on climate change last Sunday...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, walks past members of the media as he heads to the Senate Chamber floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018.

Sullivan: How to stay (slightly) sane this week: A user’s guide to the media maelstrom ahead

September 24, 2018 at 2:55 p.m.

On Friday morning -- which already feels like a month ago -- Washington Post White House reporter Seung Min Kim posted an exhausted sigh of relief on Twitter: "Well. We...

Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett ...

Sullivan: Claim against Kavanaugh is not suspicious 11th-hour bombshell

September 17, 2018 at 1:52 p.m.

This isn't the 11th hour, because the clock isn't running out; in fact, there is no clock.

Veteran reporter and author Carl Bernstein at the White House correspondents' dinner last year.

Column: Reporter Carl Bernstein has seen it all, from Nixon to now — but nothing quite like Trump

July 29, 2018 at 4:37 p.m.

On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon, charging he had personally tried to obstruct justice...

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump throws a paper towel roll as he visits the Cavalry Chapel in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico on October 3, 2017.
Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria thrashed through the US territory, much of the islands remains short of food and without access to power or drinking water. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Guest Commentary: Trump blasted reporting from Puerto Rico as “fake news,” but heeding it might have saved lives

July 27, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

When Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last fall, President Donald Trump playfully lobbed rolls of paper towels to those taking shelter.

Students Kelsey Friend, left, and David Hogg speak last Thursday about the mass shooting at their school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla.

Sullivan: Young, media-savvy and not OK with status quo on school shootings

February 19, 2018 at 4:03 p.m.

Telegenic and media-savvy is one way to describe David Hogg, a lean and dark-haired senior at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But maybe a better way is this: Change...

Workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif., on April 18.

Sullivan: When Facebook and Google are “weaponized,” the victim is reality

October 4, 2017 at 2:50 p.m.

Tech giants like Facebook and Google need to fully grasp the spread of misinformation via their platforms, and devote their attention and plentiful resources to addressing it.

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