Edward Felsenthal

Felsenthal is the Executive Chairman and former Editor in Chief of TIME.

Recent Articles

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

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

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

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

Why TIME Chose Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the 2020 Person of the Year

Biden and Harris show that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division

By Edward Felsenthal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why TIME Devoted Its TIME 100 Issue to Finding Hope

Felsenthal is the editor in chief and CEO of TIMENot 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 with...

By Edward Felsenthal

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

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

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

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

Why TIME Chose Greta Thunberg as the 2019 Person of the Year

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

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
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