About Nancy
Nancy Gibbs is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy and Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Her work focuses on the challenges facing the information ecosystem and their implications for civic health.
At the Shorenstein Center, she has grown the center's revenue, tripled resident faculty, and transformed it into a leading interdisciplinary hub for research, convening, and teaching on the health of the information environment. She launched new research initiatives, including the Independent Media Lab to study digital content creators, and the Documentary Film in the Public Interest program. Her work on local news and civic infrastructure helped to inform major national philanthropic initiatives.
Nancy is Editor at Large of TIME magazine and was the first woman to serve as TIME's Editor-in-Chief (2013-2017). During her three decades at TIME, she authored more cover stories than any writer in the magazine's 100-year history. She interviewed five U.S. presidents, covered four presidential campaigns, and interviewed heads of state in Japan, India, Egypt, Canada, and Norway.
She is the co-author, with Michael Duffy, of two New York Times bestsellers on presidential history: "The Presidents Club" (2013) and "The Preacher and the Presidents" (2008).