Edward Felsenthal

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

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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

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 only...

By Edward Felsenthal

The Story Behind TIME's Gun Violence Cover

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

By Edward Felsenthal

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Choice

TIME’s editor-in-chief on why the Guardians are the Person of the Year

By Edward Felsenthal

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

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

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 in...

By Edward Felsenthal

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

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 Delta, past the world’s largest peach, the Astroturf grave of Hank...

By Edward Felsenthal

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

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

How We Chose the 2018 TIME 100

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

By Edward Felsenthal

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

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
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