Tim Sullivan is a freelance writer in New York. He has been a journalist for more 35 years, having worked in newspapers, magazines, television and radio. For many of those years Sullivan was a correspondent and producer for Court TV, the national cable network that set the standard for excellence in televised coverage of criminal and civil trials. As senior vice president for news, Sullivan supervised the network's coverage of the trials of Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson, and O.J. Simpson (2008).
In 1997, as Court TV's senior on-air correspondent, Sullivan covered the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS, as well as for Court TV. The following year he covered the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton in the U.S. House of Representatives, after which he was appointed senior producer of Court TV's coverage of Clinton’s trial in the U.S. Senate. Sullivan had previously been the lead script writer and on-air correspondent for a weekly documentary series called “The System,” which was produced by Court TV and nationally syndicated by New Line Television (1994-95).
On radio, Sullivan anchored approximately 40 broadcasts of "Court TV Morning," a three-hour talk show focused on legal affairs and politics, on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2006-07. 
Sullivan joined Court TV after four years at American Lawyer Media in various editorial posts, including editor of Manhattan Lawyer magazine. During that time he wrote Unequal Verdicts: The Central Park Jogger Trials, published by Simon & Schuster in 1992. The book, described by The New York Times as “an authoritative account of the trials,” was chosen as an alternate selection by the Literary Guild book club, and by the Doubleday Book Club. (Ten years after the book was published,  the verdicts were vacated when it was determined that five defendants had made false confessions regarding the rape and beating of the Jogger.)
Before joining American Lawyer Media in 1987, Sullivan had worked for ten years as a reporter and editor at Gannett and Times-Mirror newspapers in suburban New York and Connecticut.