Best of: Margaret Sullivan’s advice to journalists covering politics

Margaret Sullivan was a newspaper editor, and has covered the media at the New York Times and the Washington Post. In her new book, Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life, she says the rise of former President Donald Trump’s brand of politics ought to change the way reporters do their jobs.

This conversation originally aired Oct. 27, 2022.

Guest:

Margaret Sullivan

Author, Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life | Author, Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Former media columnist, The Washington Post | Former public editor, The New York Times

Prepared for web by Owen Henderson

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