Mike Riley

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Michael Riley IS CEO and Editor in Chief of The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the former Managing Editor of Bloomberg Government. Prior to that, he was the Editor and Senior Vice President of Congressional Quarterly and the editor of The Roanoke (Va.) Times in 1998. He created and launched allpolitics.com, a leading political Internet site founded by TIME magazine and CNN. Riley spent a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University learning about digital technology and the online world. He had been a senior correspondent and bureau chief for TIME and spent much of a decade there covering national politics, including the 1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns. Riley, who grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated with a B.A. in English from Wake Forest University as well as a master’s in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.