Sarah Pulliam Bailey


Sarah Pulliam Bailey is an American journalist with an interest in religious topics. She is currently a religion reporter for The Washington Post.

Biography

Bailey studied at Wheaton College between 2004 and 2008 and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Wheaton Record campus newspaper during that time. Bailey is the great-granddaughter of Eugene C. Pulliam and the granddaughter of Eugene S. Pulliam.
From 2008 to 2012 she was an online editor for Christianity Today. She interviewed a number of prominent figures in that role, including Barack Obama and Billy Graham. Her work received three awards from the Evangelical Press Association, and was nominated for various awards from the Religion Newswriters Association.
In June 2013, she became a national correspondent at Religion News Service. One of her first interviews in that position was with Desmond Tutu. In 2014, she was the first to break the news that Mark Driscoll had resigned from the church he founded.