Michael Duffy

Michael Duffy is TIME's assistant managing editor and has been at the center of the magazine's coverage of politics and presidents for ten years. Since 1997, Duffy has overseen 20 correspondents, the news magazine's largest news gathering operation. He is the co-author, with TIME's Dan Goodgame, of Marching in Place: the Status Quo Presidency of George Bush, published in 1992 by Simon & Schuster. Duffy, joined TIME in 1985 as a Pentagon correspondent and was assigned to cover Congress a year later.

Duffy spent six years covering both the Bush and Clinton administrations for TIME and in 1995 won the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. In 1996, as TIME's national political correspondent, Duffy co-authored 13 cover stories with TIME's Nancy Gibbs. In 1997, he worked nearly full-time on campaign finance scandals with TIME's Michael Weisskopf and Viveca Novak and in March of 1998, the trio won the 1998 Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting, awarded annually by the Kennedy School's Joan Shorenstein Center. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Duffy graduated from Oberlin College in 1980 and lives outside Washington with his wife and their three sons. Duffy’s new book, co-authored with Nancy Gibbs, The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House was released in August 2007.

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