Kathleen Sullivan (journalist)

Kathleen Sullivan
Sullivan on the red carpet at the 41st Emmy Awards in 1989
Born	(1953-05-17) May 17, 1953 (age 63) Pasadena, California, United States
Occupation	Journalist

Kathleen Sullivan (born May 17, 1953) is an American television journalist.

She was hired as CNN anchor by former president Reese Schonfeld in 1980. Her career has been involved in nearly every area of broadcasting. For more than ten years, Sullivan was a news anchor, working at CNN, ABC News and CBS News. She is a blogger for The Huffington Post.

She was born in Pasadena, California.

Starting her career in local television, she became the first female anchor hired by CNN in 1980.

She became the first American woman to broadcast live from the Soviet Union when she went there to interview Russian cosmonauts for the Soviet Pre-Olympic festival. In 1980, Sullivan was picked by Ted Turner to help launch his Cable News Network.

Moving to ABC News, she debuted ABC World News This Morning with co-anchor Steve Bell in 1982, substituted for co-host Joan Lunden on Good Morning America, anchored ABC World News Saturday, and started the first national-network health program, The Health Show. During the 1980s, Sullivan reported live from political conventions, summit meetings, state funerals and the Olympics Games. She broadcast live from Buckingham Palace in London to report the royal wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales.