Margaret Sullivan (journalist) Quotes

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If news organizations learned anything after the campaign, they should have learned that groupthink has a tendency to miss the point and journalistic myopia requires some extra-strength corrective lenses. Do something different. Represent the interests of a broader, more ideologically diverse population. Figure out what they're thinking and feeling — and why.

Margaret Sullivan

Often it has been that reporter who has most skillfully played the access game — the one who has curried just enough favor with the powerful newsmaker to be smiled upon, without giving up basic credibility and integrity. That's access journalism. Accountability journalism, by contrast, is often performed off to the side, by those who don't have to deal with the news provider on a regular basis.

Margaret Sullivan

We — the traditional, the legacy, the mainstream media — have to change.

Margaret Sullivan

Margaret Sullivan

Margaret Sullivan

Bio: Margaret M. Sullivan is an American journalist who is the media columnist for The Washington Post. She is the former Public Editor of The New York Times, serving as the "readers' representative" and reporting directly to Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.

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