Sarah Ellison

Ellison grew up in Hanover, Pennsylvania. She attended the University of Virginia,{{cite web |title=Sarah Ellison |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sarah-ellison/ |website=The Washington Post |access-date=19 August 2021}} where she graduated with honors.

Ellison began her journalistic career with the Paris bureau of Newsweek. Subsequently, she was hired as a reporter by the Wall Street Journal. She spent the next decade working in the Journal's bureaus in Paris, London, and New York, before leaving to write her book, War at the Wall Street Journal. Called "definitive" and "cinematic" by a reviewer in the New York Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/books/review/Grove-t.html|title=Book Review - War at The Wall Street Journal - By Sarah Ellison|last=Grove|first=Lloyd|date=2010-05-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} War at the Wall Street Journal was a firsthand account of Rupert Murdoch’s hostile takeover in 2007. While working at the Journal as a reporter, Ellison documented the clash of titanic personalities and journalistic principles that led to Dow Jones & Company being sold to News Corporation for $5.6 billion.

After the book was published, Ellison was banned from a Wall Street Journal press conference,{{Cite news|url=http://gawker.com/5526456/sarah-ellison-banned-from-wsj-press-conference|title=Sarah Ellison Banned from WSJ Press Conference|last=Nolan|first=Hamilton|work=Gawker|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en-US}} in a move interpreted by observers as retaliation for her book’s critical coverage.

Ellison joined Vanity Fair in 2010 as a contributing editor.{{Cite web|url=https://speakerpedia.com/speakers/sarah-ellison|title=Sarah Ellison - Speakerpedia, Discover & Follow a World of Compelling Voices|website=speakerpedia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-11-28}} In 2016, she was promoted to special correspondent, following her activity for Vanity Fair’s blog, The Hive, which concentrates towards Washington, technology, and politics.

Her work at the magazine covered a wide range of sensitive cultural and political issues, including an exclusive interview{{Cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/09/university-of-virginia-most-horrible-year|title=After a Rape Story, a Murder, and Lawsuits: What’s Next for the University of Virginia?|last=Ellison|first=Sarah|work=The Hive|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en}} with three former supporters of ‘Jackie’, the subject of a discredited campus rape story by Rolling Stone.

Other prominent stories included exposés of the Washington elite’s hostile reception{{Cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-repelled-by-washington-elite|title=Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka Were Repelled by Washington’s Elite|last=Ellison|first=Sarah|work=The Hive|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en}} of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, and the struggle of conservative commentators like Megyn Kelly to attract mainstream audiences after leaving Fox News.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/megyn-kelly-nbc-star-eclipsed|title=Has Megyn Kelly’s Star Already Been Eclipsed?|last=Ellison|first=Sarah|work=The Hive|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en}} She will continue to publish with Vanity Fair until December 2017.

Late in 2017, it was revealed that Ellison would be joining The Washington Post to write features on the intersection of media, politics, and technology. She is scheduled to begin publishing with the Post on January 22, 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/11/16/sarah-ellison-joins-the-washington-post-as-a-media-reporter/|title=Sarah Ellison joins The Washington Post as a media reporter|last=WashPostPR|date=2017-11-16|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}

The Newswomen’s Club of New York awarded Ellison its Front Page Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.newswomensclubnewyork.com/front-page-awards-winners-2017/|title=2017 Award Recipients|website=THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-28}} in 2017 for her work with Vanity Fair’s blog, The Hive.

In 2015, she was awarded the Mirror Awards' John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting{{Cite web|url=https://beamjockey.livejournal.com/242564.html|title=Bryan Burrough, Sarah Ellison, and Suzanna Andrews Win 2015 Higgins Award|last=Higgins|first=William S. |date=2015-06-11 |access-date=2017-11-28}} for her contributions to an article titled "The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of Secrets and Light."

Her writing has also been recognized by the New York Press Club.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nypressclub.org/awards.php|title=The New York Press Club {{!}} Awards for Journalism|last=Club|first=Handmade by Peter O.E. Bekker for The New York Press|website=www.nypressclub.org|access-date=2017-11-28}}

Ellison is married to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger. They live in Brooklyn with their daughters.{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}

• Sarah Ellison, War at the Wall Street Journal, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-547-15243-1}}

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• {{official website|http://www.sarahlellison.com}}

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