Margaret Sullivan
@Sulliview
Columnizing @GuardianUS. Thinking/teaching @columbiajourn … Knicks fan and #billsmafia. … Pro-democracy
Haven’t left this neighborhood entirely yet. But you can also find me @sulliview.bsky.social and MargaretSullivan.substack.com, where I write the American Crisis newsletter
Hard hit Chicago Tribune newsroom sees roughly 10% additional layoffs per guild As staffers note, owner Alden Global Capital seeking to buy Dallas Morning News after Hearst had made seemingly winning bid for it.
Today, @chicagotribune laid off five guild staff members in a roughly 10% cut to our newsroom. These layoffs underscore a sad but unsurprising failure of leadership by Alden Global Capital, our hedge fund owner, and local management.
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
Breaking: Mere months into the job, Byron Brown has already secured a raise for himself, Steve Casey & other top execs. Brown now makes nearly $304k. And that's before a contractual $10k raise hits in Jan. OTB also approved $6k for him to go to Vegas: investigativepost.org/2025/07/24/a-p…
What a tangled web they’re weaving. Look out; sometimes it’s the cover-up that gets you more than the original wrongdoing.
Donald Trump has launched a frontal assault on the journalism business, @farhip argues—and so far, he’s winning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Today in further capitulation: Paramount to Create CBS News Ombudsman, Launch Review of Bias. @alexweprin: hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…
BREAKING: Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220 million in deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding. apnews.com/article/columb…
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
this is a bidding war with huge implications for news in Dallas and Texas
NEW: Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is making a last-minute bid for The Dallas Morning News, which reached a deal with Hearst earlier this month. MediaNews offering $16.50 a share to Hearst's $14 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
CBS has done bad stuff going way back to the Smothers Brothers Still, Colbert's ouster feels different. This isn't just capitalism but fascism, and there's no Murrow or Cronkite to cut through the billionaire BS My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…
Any American journalist who doesn’t instantaneously see what this is—Ghislaine Maxwell, urgently seeking a pardon from Trump, negotiating privately to say whatever he wants her to say in public to get a pardon (now or any time during her 20-year prison bid)—should quit their job.
Thrilled about my new role @newrepublic, joining Michael and his excellent team of writers and editors.
I'm very excited to announce that @perrybaconjr will be joining the @newrepublic as a staff writer next month. Perry is one of the sharpest analysts of American politics out there, and we're thrilled to have him aboard!
It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
The White House said it would ban Wall Street Journal reporters from the press pool covering President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, its latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to Jeffrey Epstein. wapo.st/44Zli7A
Breaking statement from the Office of President Obama: "Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit…
I think we’re underreacting to Trump’s lawsuit against Murdoch and WSJ — an authoritarian leader targeting the oligarch who helped put him in power for displaying insufficient loyalty while the leader’s less-powerful supporters cheer is not something that traditionally ends well.
it’s Bills Week at Defector so I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography defector.com/william-f-buck…
Ghislaine Maxwell sued Virginia Giuffre for defamation and it didn’t go so well for Maxwell — who is now serving 20 plus years in prison. All the incriminating discovery in that defamation case became public as a result of @MiamiHerald cnbc.com/2025/07/18/tru…
President Trump's lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publishing house Simon & Schuster was dismissed by a federal judge today. "We're very pleased the Court agreed with us and dismissed the case," S&S said in a statement.
Under a potential deal, Bari Weiss would serve as an "ideological guide of sorts" at CBS News, according to Puck. (paywall) puck.news/was-colberts-c…
The Supreme Court's emergency docket decision to allow Trump to gut the Department of Education is maybe the most pro-Trump, pro-Authoritarian ruling the Court has made in service of Trump thus far, and I've read them all. thenation.com/article/politi…