The Chronicle of Higher Education
Mike Riley is the current President, CEO, and Editor in Chief at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Mike has had a long and successful career in the media industry, starting as a reporter at The (Lexington) Dispatch in 1981. In 1985, they moved to Time Magazine where they worked as a Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent in their Los Angeles, Washington, and Atlanta bureaus. In 1998, they were a founding executive producer of allpolitics.com, a joint venture of Time and CNN based in Washington D.C.
In 2007, Riley became the Editor and Senior Vice President at Congressional Quarterly where they led a 170-person editorial enterprise covering Congress, politics and public policy. Mike also managed complex news and data operations, online and in print. In 2009, they were promoted to Editorial Director, Online at Congressional Quarterly.
In their current role at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Riley is responsible for the overall editorial content and direction of the organization. Mike also oversees the business side of the publication. Under their leadership, The Chronicle has become one of the most respected and widely-read sources of news and information on higher education.
Mike Riley's educational career includes a BA in English from Wake Forest University, an MPA in digital technology and economics from Harvard University, and a BA in politics from Harvard Kennedy School.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education (chronicle.com), published since 1966, is the leading source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. The Chronicle's audited website traffic is routinely more than 12 million pages a month, seen by more than one million unique visitors. In print, The Chronicle is published in two sections: Section A, which contains news and jobs, and The Chronicle Review, a magazine of arts and ideas. Subscribers also receive a special Almanac of Higher Education once a year, two supplements on forthcoming events in academe, and other special reports. The print version is also available as a digital edition. The newspaper is subscribed to by more than 70,000 academics and has a total readership of 350,000. The Chronicle is a nine-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, and one of its columnists was a finalist for a 2005 Pulitzer Prize. In 2007 The Chronicle was ranked in the 10 most credible news sources by Erdos & Morgan, a widely used survey of thought leaders in the United States.