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Key Editorial Bios

Mortimer B. Zuckerman

Chairman and Editor in Chief
Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the Chairman and Editor in Chief of U.S.News & World Report and is the publisher of the New York Daily News. He is also the founder and Chairman of Boston Properties, Inc.

Zuckerman is a graduate of McGill University, McGill Law School, The Wharton Graduate School of Business and the Harvard Law School.

He is a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York University, the Aspen Institute, the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, Inc., and the Center for Communications. He is also a member of the J.P. Morgan National Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He is a former Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a former lecturer of City and Regional Planning at Yale, and a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Zuckerman was awarded the Commandeur De L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France, received three honorary degrees, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Guild Hall, and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architecture in New York.

Brian Kelly

Editor
Prior to accepting his appointment as editor in April 2007, Brian Kelly served as U.S. News's executive editor, where he was instrumental in integrating U.S. News's print and online products and in expanding its News You Can Use® features, both online and off. Kelly not only played a key role in the weekly magazine's production, but also has overseen USNews.com; U.S. News's signature annual education reports, America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools; and a series of new business ventures. He came to the magazine in 1998 as assistant managing editor, supervising domestic news and political coverage.

Before joining U.S. News, Kelly spent six years at The Washington Post, as congressional editor for coverage of Capitol Hill and political campaigns, and before that, as deputy editor of the Post's Sunday opinion section, "Outlook." From 1985 to 1992, he was the editor of Regardie's, a monthly magazine covering business and politics in the Washington, D.C. region.

Kelly is co-author of The Last Forest (Random House, 2007), which is a sequel to Amazon (1985), a look at the economic and cultural forces behind the clearing of the Amazon rainforest. In addition, he wrote Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won't Stop (1993), a study of pork barrel politics on Capitol Hill, and co-authored The Four Little Dragons (1999), an exploration of the developing economies of Asia. Kelly holds a bachelor's in economics from Georgetown University.

Margaret Mannix

Managing Editor
Since joining U.S. News in 1990, Margaret Mannix has written on everything from personal finance and consumer affairs to education and health. After reporting for the investigative and business teams, she became the business section's deputy editor in 2002, and then assistant managing editor. In 2005, she assumed leadership over health and medicine content, both print and online. She is editor of the U.S. News book What College Really Costs (2005).

Prior to joining U.S. News, Mannix worked as a Market News Service reporter and as a press aide for then-Sen. Bob Dole. She is a 1988 graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, and has a bachelor's in communications from American University.

Tim Smart

Managing Editor
Tim Smart, a seasoned business journalist with more than 25 years experience, started at U.S. News in late 1999 as deputy editor for News You Can Use®. From 2001 to 2007, he managed the online and print version of the Money & Business section.

Smart's prior reporting experience includes two years at The Washington Post (1997-1999) and 10 years at Business Week (1987-1997). He started his career at Florida dailies: St. Petersburg Times (1979-1981), Miami Herald (1981-1984), and Orlando Sentinel (1985-1987). Smart comments frequently on CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, Retirement Living TV, and numerous radio stations. He has a bachelor's of science in journalism from the University of Florida.

Michael Barone

Senior Writer
From 1989 to 1996 and again from 1998 to the present, Michael Barone has been a senior writer for U.S. News. He is the principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics and the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan. He is also a political contributor to FOX News Channel.

From 1996 to 1998, Barone was a senior staff editor at Readers Digest and a member of the editorial page staff for the Washington Post. He was previously at the Washington Post from 1981 to 1989. Prior to the Post, Barone served as vice president of the Peter D. Hart Research Associates. He has written for many publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit Press, American Enterprise, and The Daily Telegraph of London. Barone graduated from Harvard University in 1966 and Yale Law School in 1969.

Kenneth T. Walsh

Chief White House Correspondent
Having covered the White House full time for U.S. News since 1986, Kenneth T. Walsh is one of the most experienced and longest serving reporters ever to cover the presidency. He is a presidential historian and author of four books including, most recently, From Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats (2005). He is also the only two-time winner of the White House Correspondents' Association's Aldo Beckman Memorial Award. Additionally, he has been twice awarded the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Coverage of the Presidency, and the Fitzwater Prize for Leadership in Public Communication.

Prior to joining U.S. News in 1984, Walsh was Washington correspondent, chief political writer, and political columnist for the Denver Post. He also worked for the Associated Press. Walsh appears regularly on television networks including CNBC Power Lunch, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, MSNBC, WJLA's Capital Sunday, and the History Channel. He also has been interviewed on "National Public Radio Weekend Edition with Liane Hansen," "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" (WBUR Boston), and "The Diane Rehm Show" (WAMU Washington).

Dr. Bernadine Healy

Health Editor
Dr. Bernadine Healy is a cardiologist and health administrator who was the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health. Known for her outspokenness, innovative policymaking, and sometimes controversial leadership in medical and research institutions, Healy has been particularly effective in addressing medical policy and research pertaining to women.

Healy spent the early part of her career at Johns Hopkins University, where she rose to full professor on the medical school faculty while also undertaking significant administrative responsibilities. She served as deputy science adviser to President Ronald Reagan. In 1985 she was appointed head of the Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where she remained until her appointment as director of NIH in 1991. Healy was president of the American Heart Association from 1988 to 1989 and has served on numerous national advisory committees. She also served as president and chief executive officer of the American Red Cross from 1999 to 2001.

Healy's awards include two American Heart Association special awards for service and the 1992 Dana Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award.

Fouad Adjami

Contributing Editor
Fouad Adjami is a Majid Khadduri Professor and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. He was formerly a faculty member of Princeton University's Department of Politics, a fellow at Princeton's Center of International Studies, and a research fellow at The Lehrman Institute. In 1982, Adjami received the five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship in the arts and sciences. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington.

Adjami is a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs, and is a consultant to CBS News. In addition to his work with U.S. News, he is also frequent contributor on Middle Eastern issues and contemporary international history to The New York Times Book Review, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and other journals and periodicals. His publications include The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey (1998); Beirut: City of Regrets (1988); The Vanished Imam: Musa Al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon (1986); and The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967 (1981; revised edition in 1992).