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Edward Felsenthal
Edward Felsenthal is the Editor-in-Chief and CEO of TIME.
Recent Articles
The Story Behind TIME's New 'Enough' Mass Shootings Cover
The gavel shape formed by the word "Enough" on our new cover is meant to signify the need for action
By Edward Felsenthal
May 26, 2022
How We Chose the 2022 TIME100
"Our hope is that the TIME100 list is not simply a recognition of influence but a study in how influence can be wielded."
By Edward Felsenthal
May 23, 2022
Leaders Are Meeting in Person Again at Davos—Just as the World Faces a New Threat
For many of us, Davos 2020 will forever be associated with the first time we began to take in the potential scope of the mysterious virus that had infected what was then, by official counts,...
By Edward Felsenthal
May 18, 2022
How TIME Chose Its 2022 Next Generation Leaders
At TIME, our eyes are on the rising stars poised to shape the future. We first joined forces with Rolex in 2014 to launch Next Generation Leaders, our series elevating young people from across fields...
By Edward Felsenthal
May 12, 2022
Ecopreneurs Are Critical to the Planet's Future
For more than a quarter of a century, amid growing signs of the ravages of global warming, the U.N. has brought together representatives from almost every country on the planet to work together on solutions....
By Edward Felsenthal
April 14, 2022
How Business Is Shaping Our Future
From the vaccines that save lives to the withdrawal of companies from Russia, business has never had a greater impact
By Edward Felsenthal
March 30, 2022
Telling the Stories of War
How do you tell the story of a war? Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, all of us have been grappling with the constant flood of images and messages coming into our...
By Edward Felsenthal
March 17, 2022
How We Picked the 2021 Kid of the Year
Much has been said, and rightly so, about what a heartbreaking time this period has been for so many kids around the world. “The Lost Year,” we called it in a TIME cover story about...
By Edward Felsenthal
February 9, 2022
The Story Behind TIME's Interview with Alexei Navalny
Navalny’s last letter arrived in mid-January, and its tone was a lot darker than the other letters had been
By Edward Felsenthal
January 19, 2022
Davos 2022: Klaus Schwab on Fixing the Global Trust Crisis
TIME editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal talks to Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, about collaboration, hopes for the climate, and the power of youth. This interview has been edited and condensed. I recently...
By Edward Felsenthal
January 19, 2022
Why TIME Dedicated This Special Issue to the Power of Collaboration
In early December, vaccinated and rapid tested, I had the opportunity to catch up in person with Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum, our partner in this special issue. It was his first...
By Edward Felsenthal
January 18, 2022
Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2021 Person of the Year Issue
2021 has been a year of building on the past to forge the future, writes Edward Felsenthal
By Edward Felsenthal
December 13, 2021
Why TIME Dedicated an Issue to the Global Climate Fight
20,000 delegates from 196 countries head to Glasgow for the most important global gathering on climate change in years
By Edward Felsenthal
October 28, 2021
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
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