Bartholomew Sullivan
Bartholomew Sullivan, a native of St. Louis, Mo., has been with E.W. Scripps for almost 19 years, including seven and a half as the Washington correspondent for The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal for the Scripps Howard News Service. A 1980 political science graduate of the University of Santa Clara, in California, Sullivan began his newspaper career as the editor-in-chief of his college paper. In 1982, he began his professional daily newspaper career at The Gettysburg Times, in Pennsylvania, then worked for the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, then-Evening Sentinel, then The Palm Beach Post, where he covered municipal governments, the federal courts and each year's September alligator hunt. In October 1992, he joined Scripps-owned The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal as the county-beat reporter, then quickly moved to become the regional news features reporter, ranging for nearly ten years over the mainly rural, tri-state Mid-South, covering murder and mayhem on deadline. One murder and its trials led to a book, The Blood of Innocents (1995), co-authored with two colleagues, about a notorious triple murder in Arkansas.
In 1999, Sullivan won the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Jesse Laventhol Prize for Distinguished Deadline News Reporting and had his work republished in the Poynter Institute's Best Newspaper Writing for 1999. In Memphis, Sullivan traveled to Portugal (1998) and to India (2000) for extended reporting assignments. From Washington, Sullivan has traveled to Jordan, Iraq, Benin, Burkina Faso and again to India on reporting assignments. A member of the White House Correspondents Association, Sullivan is responsible for the Scripps Howard News Service's monthly White House pool duty assignment. He covered both presidential conventions in 2004 and 2008. Married to a high school English teacher, he has two daughters in college. He lives in Falls Church, Va.
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