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Patricia Sullivan

Illinois
Covers:  virginia, arlington, alexandria
Former Washington Post reporter (ret.) Founded Good Morning Silicon Valley, one of first blogs. Feminist, environmentalist, gardener.

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Patricia Sullivan has worked at the Washington Post since 2001, editing the local technology page, writing news obituaries, working in the newsroom's information technology department and covering breaking news. She previously was executive online editor at The Industry Standard in San Francisco, an online editor and online columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and a reporter at newspapers in Montana, Florida and Illinois. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1…

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