Eileen Sullivan

Career Sullivan started her career 1997 working for the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In 2001, Sullivan, Angela Rucker, and Jason Laughlin earned an award from the New Jersey Press Association for their article on teenage alcohol use, "Many equate booze with fun".

Sullivan moved to the Federal Times in 2003, and then to Congressional Quarterly in 2005 where she covered the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and Hurricane Katrina. She became an expert on homegrown terrorism and domestic radicalization while covering counter-terrorism. The series earned them the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, the 2012 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government, the 2012 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and the Edgar A. Poe Award from the White House Correspondents' Association. The fallout from the series led to an unsuccessful lawsuit against the NYPD brought by the State of New Jersey, and the disbanding of the surveillance program in 2014.

Sullivan joined The New York Times in 2017 as an early-morning breaking news reporter in their Washington, D.C., bureau.

Personal life Sullivan and her husband James live with their daughter Celia in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington D.C.