Jack Sullivan
Senior Investigative Reporter
Direct Dial: 617-224-1623
Sullivan, a veteran of the Boston newspaper scene for more than two decades, was most recently Editorial Page Editor of The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, a part of the GateHouse Media chain. Prior to that he was news editor at another GateHouse paper, The Enterprise of Brockton and also was city edition editor at the Ledger. Sullivan was an investigative and enterprise reporter and executive city editor at the Boston Herald and a reporter at The Boston Globe. He has reported stories such as the federal investigation into the Teamsters, the workings of the Yawkey Trust and sale of the Red Sox, organized crime, the church sex abuse scandal and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the State House, state and local politics, K-16 education, courts, crime and general assignment. Sullivan received the 2003 New England Press Association award for investigative reporting for a series on unused properties owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and shared the association's 2002 award for business for his reporting on the sale of the Boston Red Sox. He also won second place in 2007 for editorial writing from the Inland Press Association, the nation's oldest national journalism association of nearly 900 newspapers as members. He is also an adjunct professor at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, where he teaches journalism writing. A Boston native, Sullivan has lived in Massachusetts all his life. He was a major in English and History with a minor in Political Science at the University of Massachuetts Boston. A father and grandfather, he lives in Plymouth with his wife, Susan. |