Nancy Gibbs

Nancy Gibbs

Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Media & Communications

Nancy Gibbs is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, presidential historian, and former Editor in Chief of TIME, where she became the magazine’s first female editor. Now the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, she is a leading authority on American politics, leadership, media, and the presidency. A prolific writer with more than 175 TIME cover stories, Nancy is the co-author of two bestselling presidential histories and a sought-after speaker on politics, journalism, public policy, and leadership.

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