Margaret Sullivan hopes the media will embrace public-spirited journalism rather than 'feed the outrage machine” in 2024.
she served as an in-house critic, a job Sullivan on Tuesday likened to being “an inspector general of a federal agency” ., where she wrote a media column—a position, Sullivan writes in her book, she convinced to create in the spirit of the late David Carr’s. Sullivan talked about all of these past roles on Tuesday, as well as the utility of knowing what you want. “As women, there’s a feeling like we should pretend not to be ambitious,” Sullivan said.
Prior to the Q&A section, the conversation largely focused on Sullivan’s experience as public editor, which, given that it often involved criticism of her colleagues, was inherently uncomfortable.
Sullivan, “the least self-promoting person in America,” according to Jong-Fast, seemed most comfortable during the Q&A section . At one point someone asked whether she could start writing her media column again. “I got a little burnt out, I have to say,” Sullivan said, noting the six years she spent at theof local news, neither of which were “particularly cheery.”
“It was wearing and it was draining. So I just thought it might be good to do something else for a while, like write a detective series,” she said, one about a laid-off local news reporter who parlays her skills as an investigative reporter into solving crimes. “I’ve actually started writing this and I’m having a blast doing it,” Sullivan told the audience Tuesday, turning back to the question. “I mean, I don’t know. I think I’ve paid my dues.
Tuesday’s discussion was held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall. Escorting me to my seat, a representative told me Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln had spoken here, so they were particularly excited to have Sullivan talking about democracy. A lack of trust in the
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