Protected: Nancy Gibbs

Nancy Gibbs is the Edward R. Murrow professor of practice and director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Before joining the university, Gibbs was editor in chief of Time, directing news and feature coverage across all U.S., European, and Asian editions. In September 2013, Gibbs was named Time’s 17th editor, the first woman to hold the position, and remains an editor-at-large. Leading Time through a period of media industry upheaval, she built the largest audience in its history, expanding its reach across platforms and reversing a seven-year decline in revenue. 

During her three decades at Time, she covered four presidential campaigns and is the author of more cover stories than any writer in Time’s near-100-year history, including the black-bordered September 11 special issue, which won the National Magazine Award in 2002.

She is the co-author, with Michael Duffy, of two best-selling presidential histories, including The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity (2012), which spent 30 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Her columns now appear in the Washington Post as well as Time, and she has been a frequent guest on radio and TV news shows, including Meet the Press, CBS This Morning, PBS Newshour, Morning Joe, World News Tonight, This Week, and the Today show.   

Gibbs was born and raised in New York City. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1982, with honors in history, and has a degree in politics and philosophy from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall scholar.   

Gibbs currently serves as co-chair of the Center for Communications Leadership and Policy at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism,  president of the American Friends of New College, Oxford, trustee of the Chautauqua Institution, board member of the How Institute for Society and the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, and an independent director of Column PBC, a public benefit corporation launched by Harvard University students with a goal of providing sustainable revenue to local newspapers. 

By Nancy Gibbs:
“Newspapers are disappearing where democracy needs them most”