Joe Sullivan is the News Director for NBC5 News. Before coming to Southern Oregon, he was the News Director at WXXV-TV in Gulfport/Biloxi Mississippi.
In his 33 years of broadcast television, Joe has been a Production Assistant, Sports Reporter, Sports Anchor, Sports Director, News Reporter, News Anchor, Producer,
Executive Producer, and News Director.
Joe started his career in sports. He worked at ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut as a Production Assistant. His first on-air job was as Sports Director at KNDO-TV in Yakima, Washington. He went on to anchor sports in Richmond, Virginia at WWBT-TV and WRLH-TV. Joe made the switch to news and was a News Anchor at WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee.
Joe was born and raised in Rhode Island. He graduated from Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. He was a pitcher on his college baseball team.
When he’s not in the newsroom, Joe enjoys hiking the hills of Jacksonville with his wife and daughter and his German Shepard, Hazel. Joe is the biggest Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots fan in Oregon. In 1996, prior to the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Joe had the honor of carrying the Olympic Torch for one mile in Yakima.