Talk:Kevin Sullivan (journalist)

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Kevin Sullivan (journalist). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110526161523/http://www.spj.org/sdxa2002c.asp to http://www.spj.org/sdxa2002c.asp

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 12:03, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Patrickmulholland, Susanortiz, and Kennelis have only edited this article and Mary Jordan (journalist) adding large amounts on completely promotional text, some of which is completely unsourced. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 16:12, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

I have some updates to this page that would make it more accurate, including changes to Kevin Sullivan's job title, specifications about family relationships, and new publications. The updates are detailed below:

Please cut this paragraph:

Kevin Sullivan (born November 5, 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, best-selling

author and senior correspondent at The Washington Post.

And replace it with:

Kevin Sullivan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, best-selling author and associate

editor at The Washington Post.

Please cut this paragraph:

Sullivan was a Post foreign correspondent for 14 years, working with his wife, Washington Post

journalist Mary Jordan, as the newspaper's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City and London.

Sullivan is well known for parachuting into faraway places, from Congo to Burma to Baghdad. He

went to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and to Saudi Arabia when King

Abdullah died, and again after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. He has also served as the Post's

chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and Features Editor.

And replace it with:

Sullivan was a Post foreign correspondent for 14 years, working with his wife, Washington Post

journalist Mary Jordan, as the newspaper's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City and London.

Sullivan is well known for parachuting into faraway places, including Congo, Burma, Iraq and

Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He has traveled often to Saudi Arabia

since the 1980s, including after King Abdullah’s death in 2015 and after the murder of Washington

Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. He has also served as the Post's chief foreign

correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and Features Editor.

Please cut this paragraph:

Sullivan and Jordan have written three books together. Their most recent, “Trump on

Trial” chronicled the Trump impeachment, and Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (with

Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus) was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.

And replace it with these two:

Sullivan and Jordan have written three books together. Their most recent, Trump’s Trials, chronicled

the two Trump impeachments (It was originally published in hardcover as Trump on Trial). Their

book Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus) was a No. 1

New York Times bestseller.

Sullivan and Jordan have written extensively about former President Jimmy Carter and former first

lady Rosalynn Carter, including

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-

jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/ and https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/03/inseparable/.

Please cut this paragraph:

Sullivan was raised in Brunswick, Maine and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in

1981. After working for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island and the Gloucester Daily

Times in Massachusetts, Sullivan joined the Post in 1991. [1]  At the Post, Sullivan has reported on six

continents from more than 75 countries,

including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Cuba, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra

Leone and Haiti.

And replace it with these two:

Sullivan was raised in Brunswick, Maine and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in

1981. He is a nephew of the Rev. Francis A. Sullivan, a noted Jesuit theologian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_A._Sullivan He is the brother of Dr. Thomas Sullivan, a pediatric

neuropsychologist. https://www.thomassullivanphd.com/index.html

After working for the Gloucester Daily Times in Massachusetts and The Providence Journal in Rhode

Island, Sullivan joined the Post in 1991. [1]  At the Post, Sullivan has reported on six continents from

more than 80 countries, including Ukraine,

Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Cuba, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra

Leone and Haiti. In 2022, he was the Post’s Ukraine editor, overseeing coverage of the first six

months of Russia’s full-scale invasion. In Kyiv, he wrote about the war’s impact on Ukrainian

oligarchs: ADD LINK HERE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/08/ukraine-oligarchs-

power-war/ Lisakennedyy (talk) 13:47, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

• Kevin Sullivan's job title should be changed to Associate Editor at the Washington Post.:
• Kevin Sullivan's job title should be changed to Associate Editor at the Washington Post because he is now an Associate Editor and not a senior correspondent at the Washington Post.:
• ^[1]:

Lisakennedyy (talk) 14:31, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done - job title changed in opening line of article. Career section needs to be rewritten as a chronological encyclopedic biography, so references for which years he was appointed to or held which roles would be a helpful starting point. Melcous (talk) 22:24, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]