Edward Felsenthal

How We Chose the 2021 TIME100

The year I started in journalism, 1992, was “the end of history” or so claimed a famous book by that title with a remarkably sunny view of human progress. Today—as I near my 30th year...

By Edward Felsenthal September 15, 2021

Finding Purpose at a Moment of Crisis and Division

Earlier this summer, TIME senior correspondent Justin Worland traveled to the Mahoning Valley, an area of northeast Ohio once teeming with manufacturing and now better known for plant closings. There he met William “Doug” Franklin,...

By Edward Felsenthal August 11, 2021

How TIME Chose Its 2021 Next Generation Leaders

I was catching up the other day with a friend, who asked how remote work had been going, and I mentioned that sometimes late in the day, when my youngest child has had it with...

By Edward Felsenthal May 28, 2021

Every Company is a Tech Company Now. The Disruption is Just Beginning

In March 2020, as businesses across the world sent non-essential workers home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a 2.6 million-sq.-ft. General Motors plant in Kokomo, Ind., sat idle. At the same time, ventilators—the...

By Edward Felsenthal April 27, 2021

How We Chose the 2021 TIME100 Next

As we assembled our second annual TIME100 Next list—an expansion of our flagship TIME100 franchise that highlights 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future—what struck me most was how its members are coping with...

By Edward Felsenthal February 17, 2021

Why TIME Partnered with Ibram X. Kendi to Recognize the Black Renaissance

When historian, TIME 100 honoree and How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi approached TIME with the idea to partner on a project about marking this moment as a Black cultural renaissance, the...

By Edward Felsenthal February 4, 2021

Introducing the New TIME Digital Subscription

One of the joys of my job is hearing from people all over the globe about what TIME means to them: how the magazine connects them to the wider world; how their family reads TIME...

By Edward Felsenthal February 3, 2021

TIME 2030: Behind the Scenes of a Decade-Long Project

By 2030, we will know whether we’re on the path toward a better planet

By Edward Felsenthal January 22, 2021

Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Issue

In the fall of any normal year, we pack a conference room at TIME’s headquarters in New York City with reporters, producers and editors to debate who should be selected as Person of the Year,...

By Edward Felsenthal December 10, 2020

Our Dueling American Realities Remain. Biden, Harris—And All of Us—Have Much Work Ahead

Early last year, I went to a small dinner in New York for one of my predecessors in this job, former TIME editor turned best-selling biographer, professor and PBS host Walter Isaacson. We wound up...

By Edward Felsenthal November 12, 2020

TIME Replaced Its Logo on the Cover For the First Time in Its Nearly 100-Year History. Here's Why We Did It

I don't often use this space to direct your attention to other publications, but I do recommend you check out an article Science published online on Sept. 24. Titled Singing in a Silent Spring, it...

By Edward Felsenthal October 22, 2020

How TIME Chose Its 2020 Next Generation Leaders

Previous honorees have gone on to lead nations, receive Oscar nominations and become Olympic stars

By Edward Felsenthal October 9, 2020

How We Chose the 2020 TIME100

TIME's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal explains the selection process fo this year's list of the 100 most influential people

By Edward Felsenthal September 22, 2020

The Story Behind TIME's Issue Marking Nearly 200,000 U.S. Deaths—and Why Its Border Is Black For the Second Time in History

In March, as the global pandemic hit New York, my colleague Kat Moon decided--wisely, it turned out, given what was ahead for the U.S.--to decamp to her childhood home, Taipei. Despite its proximity to mainland...

By Edward Felsenthal September 10, 2020

America's Critical Moment

This July 4th arrives at a critical moment for what the Pulitzer Prize--winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen in this issue calls "the alchemical experiment" of the United States. As the country nears its 250th anniversary,...

By Edward Felsenthal June 25, 2020

America's Essential Discomfort

During one of our recent TIME 100 talks, the singer, actor and activist Andra Day made a point that resonated deeply and echoes words I have heard repeatedly in recent days from colleagues and other...

By Edward Felsenthal June 11, 2020

Why TIME Devoted an Issue to the Impact of the Pandemic on the Next Generation

My grandfather's life, like those of so many of his generation, was shaped by war. He was 11 when World War I broke out in his native Germany and often recounted the lasting effects of...

By Edward Felsenthal May 21, 2020

Why TIME Devoted Its TIME 100 Issue to Finding Hope

Felsenthal is the editor in chief and CEO of TIME Not long ago, I asked a TIME 100 honoree if he had enjoyed the TIME 100 gala. Jennifer Lopez had performed, and members of Congress mingled...

By Edward Felsenthal April 16, 2020

Front Line Workers Tell Their Own Stories in the New Issue of TIME

Most weeks, deciding what to put on our cover is the subject of great internal debate. This week, it was simple. TIME reports on the people who shape the world, and the cover often features...

By Edward Felsenthal April 9, 2020

How TIME Plans to Cover COVID-19

This is a new reality that will continue to create challenges and require collaboration, courage and empathy

By Edward Felsenthal March 18, 2020

Inside the Making of TIME's Equality Issue

Go behind-the-scenes with the making of TIME's issue devoted to equality

By Edward Felsenthal February 20, 2020

Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019

It began with a story line familiar to every parent of every generation in every corner of the globe: an indignant teenager and a sudden burst of rebellion. It became one of the most unlikely...

By Edward Felsenthal December 11, 2019

Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2019 Person of the Year Issue

Person of the Year started on a whim. At the end of 1927, the editors realized they had made it through the year without putting the 25-year-old aviator Charles Lindbergh on the cover to commemorate...

By Edward Felsenthal December 11, 2019

How We Chose the 2019 TIME 100 Next

When we first published our TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people 15 years ago, it was dominated by individuals who rose through traditional power structures: heads of state, CEOs of public companies,...

By Edward Felsenthal November 13, 2019

Why TIME Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change

This issue, if civilization can get its act together, might just mark a midpoint in TIME’s coverage of the biggest crisis facing our planet. Three decades ago—at a moment when much of the world was...

By Edward Felsenthal September 12, 2019

The Story Behind TIME's Gun Violence Cover

This week’s cover lists the locations of 253 mass shootings in America

By Edward Felsenthal August 7, 2019

The Story Behind TIME’s Journey to Space

Editor-in-Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal celebrates TIME's July 27, 2019 cover story

By Edward Felsenthal July 17, 2019

The Story Behind President Donald Trump's 29th TIME Cover

TIME interviewed the President in the Oval Office on June 17, a day ahead of the formal launch of his 2020 campaign

By Edward Felsenthal June 20, 2019

The Inaugural TIME 100 Summit Showed the Enduring Power of Influence

The TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people--and the annual gala that follows it--has always been a celebration of people shaping the news. This year, I'm happy to report that we made some...

By Edward Felsenthal May 2, 2019

Here's How We Chose the 2019 TIME 100

Near the end of Tara Westover’s breakout memoir, Educated, she pauses on a timeless question, “Who writes history?” Decades from now when we look back at this era, it’s a fair bet that the answer...

By Edward Felsenthal April 17, 2019

Why the Dalai Lama’s Message Still Resonates Today

TIME put the Dalai Lama on its cover for a third time, following features in 1959 and 2008

By Edward Felsenthal March 7, 2019

Behind the Scenes of the 2018 Person of the Year Issue

Journalism is a team sport, the saying goes, and that’s particularly true at TIME, where our co-founder Henry Luce helped pioneer the notion of “group journalism” nearly a century ago. To begin the process of...

By Edward Felsenthal December 11, 2018

TIME's 2018 Person of the Year: The Guardians

On the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, two young reporters sit in a prison said to be “the darkest hellhole in Burma.” Millennials, we would call them in America—Wa Lone is 32 years old;...

By Edward Felsenthal December 11, 2018

The Story Behind TIME's 'Beyond Hate' Cover

In Edel Rodriguez's illustration, there are 13 fallen stars. One star remains on the tree. Hope

By Edward Felsenthal November 1, 2018

Why TIME Devoted an Issue to Guns in America

Edward Felsenthal is the Editor-in-Chief of TIME. In his 2015 book, the artist JR asks, “Can Art Change the World?” Artists see beyond walls, across divides, around corners. Through their eyes, we understand the world...

By Edward Felsenthal October 25, 2018

Teaching Lessons

I was raised to believe that there are no higher professional callings than health care and teaching, no duties more sacred than the welfare and education of our kids. And yet, as TIME's Katie Reilly...

By Edward Felsenthal September 13, 2018

Why TIME Created a Special Issue on the American South

It has defied a thousand obituaries, the region that winds from Virginia to Texas, through the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Smokies to the , past the world's largest peach, the Astroturf grave of Hank...

By Edward Felsenthal July 26, 2018

A Toast to Influence at the TIME 100 Gala

Each April after we publish the TIME 100--our annual designation of the world's most influential individuals--we host a gala in New York City to celebrate the people on the list, alumni from past years and...

By Edward Felsenthal May 3, 2018

Edward Felsenthal on the Future of TIME and the Power of the TIME 100

TIME Editor Edward Felsenthal gave the following remarks at the 2018 TIME 100 gala, held at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 24, 2018. "There are many uncertainties in our industry today," Felsenthal...

By Edward Felsenthal April 24, 2018

How We Chose the 2018 TIME 100

This year's list looks quite different than in the past

By Edward Felsenthal April 19, 2018

What We Can Learn From the Student Teachers From Parkland

The young voices of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have changed minds and even laws

By Edward Felsenthal March 22, 2018

Fire and Flurries

In 1941, the founder of this magazine wrote "The American Century," the most influential essay of his career, asserting that the U.S. should lead the world in the pursuit of freedom, growth and global well-being....

By Edward Felsenthal January 25, 2018

TIME's 2017 Person of the Year: The Silence Breakers

It became a hashtag, a movement, a reckoning. But it began, as great social change nearly always does, with individual acts of courage. The actor who went public with the story of movie mogul Harvey...

By Edward Felsenthal December 7, 2017

Behind the Scenes of TIME's Person of the Year 2017

Each year, we begin the process of choosing the Person of the Year—this is the 91st time we have done so—with a late-September meeting of the staff. The nominations are varied and the debates vigorous,...

By Edward Felsenthal December 6, 2017

The Last Globalist

Fifty-four years ago, TIME's cover featured a President of France who had a vision for a French-led world order, a tendency to speak bluntly and a penchant for pomp. The story, which ran with the...

By Edward Felsenthal November 9, 2017

Emmanuel Macron on His Marriage, Trump’s Twitter Habits and the Future of Europe

In his first interview with American journalists inside the presidential Elysée Palace, President Emmanuel Macron sat down with TIME on Nov. 7 for a wide-ranging interview. On the six-month anniversary of his stunning election win...

By Vivienne Walt November 9, 2017

On Leaders

The work of journalism has always meant coping with a certain amount of despair, but the past few weeks have been particularly unrelenting. From the shooting in Las Vegas and the hurricanes in Puerto Rico...

By Edward Felsenthal October 12, 2017

TIME's Second Century

This is Edward Felsenthal's first editor's letter. It appears in the October 02, 2017 issue of TIME. Hanging above my desk is a letter from the editors of TIME to my grandfather. An immigrant who...

By Edward Felsenthal September 21, 2017

10 Questions With Sir Harold Evans

The acclaimed editor, author of Do I Make Myself Clear?, on how to write better and whether precision and concision can survive the digital age TIME: You discuss many writing evils in your book, from...

By Edward Felsenthal June 1, 2017

How the Court Can Reset After Scalia

Whether the seat is filled by Obama or his successor, the stakes couldn't be higher

By Edward Felsenthal February 25, 2016

Edward Felsenthal

How We Chose the 2021 TIME100

The year I started in journalism, 1992, was “the end of history” or so claimed a famous book by that title with a remarkably sunny view of human progress. Today—as I near my 30th year...

Finding Purpose at a Moment of Crisis and Division

Earlier this summer, TIME senior correspondent Justin Worland traveled to the Mahoning Valley, an area of northeast Ohio once teeming with manufacturing and now better known for plant closings. There he met William “Doug” Franklin,...

How TIME Chose Its 2021 Next Generation Leaders

I was catching up the other day with a friend, who asked how remote work had been going, and I mentioned that sometimes late in the day, when my youngest child has had it with...

Every Company is a Tech Company Now. The Disruption is Just Beginning

In March 2020, as businesses across the world sent non-essential workers home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a 2.6 million-sq.-ft. General Motors plant in Kokomo, Ind., sat idle. At the same time, ventilators—the...

How We Chose the 2021 TIME100 Next

As we assembled our second annual TIME100 Next list—an expansion of our flagship TIME100 franchise that highlights 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future—what struck me most was how its members are coping with...

Why TIME Partnered with Ibram X. Kendi to Recognize the Black Renaissance

When historian, TIME 100 honoree and How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi approached TIME with the idea to partner on a project about marking this moment as a Black cultural renaissance, the...

Introducing the New TIME Digital Subscription

One of the joys of my job is hearing from people all over the globe about what TIME means to them: how the magazine connects them to the wider world; how their family reads TIME...

TIME 2030: Behind the Scenes of a Decade-Long Project

By 2030, we will know whether we’re on the path toward a better planet

Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Issue

In the fall of any normal year, we pack a conference room at TIME’s headquarters in New York City with reporters, producers and editors to debate who should be selected as Person of the Year,...

Our Dueling American Realities Remain. Biden, Harris—And All of Us—Have Much Work Ahead

Early last year, I went to a small dinner in New York for one of my predecessors in this job, former TIME editor turned best-selling biographer, professor and PBS host Walter Isaacson. We wound up...

TIME Replaced Its Logo on the Cover For the First Time in Its Nearly 100-Year History. Here's Why We Did It

I don't often use this space to direct your attention to other publications, but I do recommend you check out an article Science published online on Sept. 24. Titled Singing in a Silent Spring, it...

How TIME Chose Its 2020 Next Generation Leaders

Previous honorees have gone on to lead nations, receive Oscar nominations and become Olympic stars

How We Chose the 2020 TIME100

TIME's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal explains the selection process fo this year's list of the 100 most influential people

The Story Behind TIME's Issue Marking Nearly 200,000 U.S. Deaths—and Why Its Border Is Black For the Second Time in History

In March, as the global pandemic hit New York, my colleague Kat Moon decided--wisely, it turned out, given what was ahead for the U.S.--to decamp to her childhood home, Taipei. Despite its proximity to mainland...

America's Critical Moment

This July 4th arrives at a critical moment for what the Pulitzer Prize--winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen in this issue calls "the alchemical experiment" of the United States. As the country nears its 250th anniversary,...

America's Essential Discomfort

During one of our recent TIME 100 talks, the singer, actor and activist Andra Day made a point that resonated deeply and echoes words I have heard repeatedly in recent days from colleagues and other...

Why TIME Devoted an Issue to the Impact of the Pandemic on the Next Generation

My grandfather's life, like those of so many of his generation, was shaped by war. He was 11 when World War I broke out in his native Germany and often recounted the lasting effects of...

Why TIME Devoted Its TIME 100 Issue to Finding Hope

Felsenthal is the editor in chief and CEO of TIME Not long ago, I asked a TIME 100 honoree if he had enjoyed the TIME 100 gala. Jennifer Lopez had performed, and members of Congress mingled...

Front Line Workers Tell Their Own Stories in the New Issue of TIME

Most weeks, deciding what to put on our cover is the subject of great internal debate. This week, it was simple. TIME reports on the people who shape the world, and the cover often features...

How TIME Plans to Cover COVID-19

This is a new reality that will continue to create challenges and require collaboration, courage and empathy

Inside the Making of TIME's Equality Issue

Go behind-the-scenes with the making of TIME's issue devoted to equality

Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019

It began with a story line familiar to every parent of every generation in every corner of the globe: an indignant teenager and a sudden burst of rebellion. It became one of the most unlikely...

Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2019 Person of the Year Issue

Person of the Year started on a whim. At the end of 1927, the editors realized they had made it through the year without putting the 25-year-old aviator Charles Lindbergh on the cover to commemorate...

How We Chose the 2019 TIME 100 Next

When we first published our TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people 15 years ago, it was dominated by individuals who rose through traditional power structures: heads of state, CEOs of public companies,...

Why TIME Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change

This issue, if civilization can get its act together, might just mark a midpoint in TIME’s coverage of the biggest crisis facing our planet. Three decades ago—at a moment when much of the world was...

The Story Behind TIME's Gun Violence Cover

This week’s cover lists the locations of 253 mass shootings in America

The Story Behind TIME’s Journey to Space

Editor-in-Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal celebrates TIME's July 27, 2019 cover story

The Story Behind President Donald Trump's 29th TIME Cover

TIME interviewed the President in the Oval Office on June 17, a day ahead of the formal launch of his 2020 campaign

The Inaugural TIME 100 Summit Showed the Enduring Power of Influence

The TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people--and the annual gala that follows it--has always been a celebration of people shaping the news. This year, I'm happy to report that we made some...

Here's How We Chose the 2019 TIME 100

Near the end of Tara Westover’s breakout memoir, Educated, she pauses on a timeless question, “Who writes history?” Decades from now when we look back at this era, it’s a fair bet that the answer...

Why the Dalai Lama’s Message Still Resonates Today

TIME put the Dalai Lama on its cover for a third time, following features in 1959 and 2008

Behind the Scenes of the 2018 Person of the Year Issue

Journalism is a team sport, the saying goes, and that’s particularly true at TIME, where our co-founder Henry Luce helped pioneer the notion of “group journalism” nearly a century ago. To begin the process of...

TIME's 2018 Person of the Year: The Guardians

On the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, two young reporters sit in a prison said to be “the darkest hellhole in Burma.” Millennials, we would call them in America—Wa Lone is 32 years old;...

The Story Behind TIME's 'Beyond Hate' Cover

In Edel Rodriguez's illustration, there are 13 fallen stars. One star remains on the tree. Hope

Why TIME Devoted an Issue to Guns in America

Edward Felsenthal is the Editor-in-Chief of TIME. In his 2015 book, the artist JR asks, “Can Art Change the World?” Artists see beyond walls, across divides, around corners. Through their eyes, we understand the world...

Teaching Lessons

I was raised to believe that there are no higher professional callings than health care and teaching, no duties more sacred than the welfare and education of our kids. And yet, as TIME's Katie Reilly...

Why TIME Created a Special Issue on the American South

It has defied a thousand obituaries, the region that winds from Virginia to Texas, through the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Smokies to the , past the world's largest peach, the Astroturf grave of Hank...

A Toast to Influence at the TIME 100 Gala

Each April after we publish the TIME 100--our annual designation of the world's most influential individuals--we host a gala in New York City to celebrate the people on the list, alumni from past years and...

Edward Felsenthal on the Future of TIME and the Power of the TIME 100

TIME Editor Edward Felsenthal gave the following remarks at the 2018 TIME 100 gala, held at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 24, 2018. "There are many uncertainties in our industry today," Felsenthal...

How We Chose the 2018 TIME 100

Felsenthal is the editor in chief and CEO of TIME Not long ago, I asked a TIME 100 honoree if he had enjoyed the TIME 100 gala. Jennifer Lopez had performed, and members of Congress mingled...