​Tim Appenzeller, news editor for Science magazine, leads the magazine’s award-winning news section and supervises its global team of staff and freelance writers and editors. He has spent 30 years as an editor and writer specializing in science and the environment for magazines including Scientific American, U.S. News & World Report, and National Geographic.

​Mike Bowler served as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before moving to the Baltimore Sun, where he served for many years as editor and higher education reporter. Now retired, he remains active in education and just completed a five-year term on the Baltimore County Board of Education.

​Eleanor Clift is a Washington correspondent for the Daily Beast, where she reports on the White House, Washington politics, and a variety of national issues. Previously, she worked for Newsweek, where she covered a variety of beats and was a key member of the magazine’s election team. Clift is a panelist on the syndicated talk show, The McLaughlin Group, and regularly comments about politics on MSNBC. Her latest book, Selecting a President, is the debut of a new civics series geared toward high school seniors and college freshmen that clearly explains how the U.S. selects its president.

​Alison Damast reports on higher education, undergraduate business school programs, and career trends for Poets & Quants for Undergrads. Previously, she was a staff writer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek and was a member of the team that produced Businessweek.com’s Business Schools channel. She also has served as a reporter for the Stamford Advocate, where she covered education and health.

​Jeffrey A. Davis is principal of J. Davis Public Relations, LLC, in Baltimore, where he also serves as Baltimore editor for DC’s Capitol Communicator and co-hosts two podcasts: "Launch Podcast: Stories about Start-Ups" and "Practically Social.” Davis helped create the social media strategy for CIC’s Power of Liberal Arts campaign.  He is a former daily newspaper reporter.

​Danielle Douglas-Gabriel covers finance and student debt issues for the Washington Post. She joined the national economy desk in 2012 from Capital Business, a Post publication where she served as the local retail, hospitality, and banking reporter. Prior to Capital Business, she was the managing editor of Real Estate Forum, a commercial real estate trade magazine.

​Emmanuel Felton is a staff writer for the Hechinger Report. Previously, he covered education, juvenile justice, and child services for the New York World.

​Josh Fischman has been senior editor at Scientific American since 2014. Earlier, he was deputy editor-in-chief for Chemical & Engineering News and senior writer and technology editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education.

​Kelli Grant covers personal finance and consumer spending for CNBC.com. Previously, she was the senior consumer reporter for MarketWatch.com and SmartMoney.com. Grant’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, SmartMoney, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, and Family Circle, among other publications.

​Anemona Hartocollis covers higher education for the national desk of the New York Times. She has been at the Times since 1997. Before coming to the Times, Hartocollis was a reporter and feature writer for the New York Daily News, New York Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Detroit News.

​Cole E. Hatcher is director of media and community relations at Ohio Wesleyan University, where his duties include overseeing media and critical-incident communications, assisting with internal communications, and collaborating to develop and implement social media strategies. Hatcher is a former newspaper city editor and Cleveland Clinic director of news.

​Kimberly Hefling is senior education writer at Politico Pro. Previously, she served as the national education writer for the Associated Press. During her 18-year career at the AP, she covered diverse topics including politics, veterans, and the military home front and served as an embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne Division early in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

​Scott Jaschik is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Doug Lederman, he leads its editorial operations and oversees news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs, and other features. Jaschik has published articles on higher education issues in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere.

​Christopher Joyce is a correspondent on the science desk at National Public Radio. His stories can be heard on all NPR news programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Before joining NPR in 1993, Joyce worked for ten years as the U.S. correspondent and editor for the British weekly magazine New Scientist.

​Tyler Kingkade is senior editor at the Huffington Post in New York City, where he covers higher education and millennials. He previously covered politics from HuffPost’s DC bureau and for the Iowa Independent.

​Doug Lederman, editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Scott Jaschik, he leads the site’s editorial operations, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs, and other features. Beginning in 1986, he worked at the Chronicle of Higher Education in a variety of roles; he was managing editor of the Chronicle from 1999 to 2003.

​Chad Lorenz is news editor at Slate. Previously, he reported for Washingtonian magazine and the Washington Post.

​Claire Machamer is director of digital media at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where she leads the digital media and strategy team. Previously, she worked with the University of Alabama Health System managing the consumer-facing digital strategy. She also worked for nearly a decade as the managing digital editor of Southern Living magazine.

​Pete Mackey has been chief communications officer at Amherst College since 2014. He is responsible for building and leading Amherst’s first comprehensive communications office, including the launch of a new campaign. He played a similar role at Bucknell University, where he served as chief communications officer and then vice president of communications.

​Marie Malzberg is senior editorial producer in New York for CNN’s At This Hour broadcast. She oversees and books all guests for the daily program, which is seen live across all CNN platforms. Previously, she was editorial producer at CNN and associate producer for Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show. She has been the recipient of and part of two Peabody Award-winning reporting teams.

​Tim McDonough, vice president for communications and marketing, has been with the American Council on Education since 1998. Previously, he was vice president for public affairs at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

​Liz McMillen, on the staff at the Chronicle of Higher Education since 1984, was named editor in August 2011. Previously, she was editor of the Chronicle Review, the weekly magazine of ideas in print. She manages more than 70 editors and reporters who write about higher education.

​Anita Narayan is the managing editor of the education section at U.S. News & World Report, where she handles daily online editorial content as well as the online production of the company’s key education rankings franchises, such as “Best Colleges,” “Best Graduate Schools,” “Best High Schools,” and “Best Global Universities.”

​Dennis O’Shea is executive director for media relations and crisis communications at Johns Hopkins University, where he oversees media relations for the university’s Homewood campus and works with colleagues university-wide on crisis and issues management. O’Shea joined Johns Hopkins in 1990 after nine years as a reporter and editor with United Press International.

​Kaitlin Pitsker is a staff writer at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, where she covers higher education and works on Kiplinger's annual college rankings. She also covers technology, workplace and career issues, and other personal finance topics. Previously, she wrote for the Post-Standard newspaper and Chronogram magazine in New York.

​David Pluviose is executive editor of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Previously, he was editor at Bulletin News, LLC.

​Justin Pope is a former Associated Press higher education reporter (1999–2013), and he is now chief of staff and advisor to the president at Longwood University in Virginia. He was a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan from September 2010 to May 2011, where he studied the challenges of mass-scale higher education in the U.S. and abroad as well as models for higher education to support journalism.

​Stephanie Ramos covers national and international news for all ABC News platforms. Previously, she was an anchor and reporter for KMBC in Kansas City and served as a first lieutenant in Iraq in 2008.

​Emily Richmond is the public editor for the national Education Writers Association and a contributor to Atlantic magazine. Previously, she was the education reporter for the Las Vegas Sun.

​Jeffrey Selingo is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, a special advisor and professor of practice at Arizona State University, and a visiting scholar at Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. He is the former top editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, where he worked for 16 years in a variety of reporting and editing roles. A best-selling author and award-winning columnist, Selingo’s newest books include There Is Life After College (2016) and College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students (2013).

​Michael Smart, president of MichaelSmartPR and former national news director at Brigham Young University, has trained more than 6,000 PR professionals from Geneva to Tokyo on how to boost communications results. He previously spent 14 years in campus media relations and is a former newspaper journalist.

​Amy X. Wang is a reporter for the digital global business news publication Quartz, where she writes on the business of education, media, and music. Previously, she reported on business and culture for the Atlantic, Slate, and the Economist. Earlier, she held editorial positions at the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Daily News.