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Managing Editor
TIME
As the managing editor of TIME, Jim Kelly oversees the world's largest newsmagazine, with more than 5 million subscribers worldwide. He also is responsible for TIME for Kids, whose editions reach over 4 million schoolchildren nationwide, and TIME.com, the largest magazine website, which attracts over 4 million visitors each month.
A 25-year TIME veteran, Kelly was named managing editor in January of 2001. He started at TIME as a writer in the Nation section, served as foreign editor during both Gulf War I and the fall of the Soviet Union, and became deputy managing editor in 1996. Kelly helped oversee TIME's turn-of-the-century projects, including the magazine's 75th anniversary celebration as well as the "TIME 100" series of six issues which named and profiled the century's most influential leaders.
Less than 36 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Kelly and his team produced a special ad-free issue that TIME gave away to its 4 million U.S. subscribers, and went back to press three times, ultimately distributing 8 million copies. TIME received a National Magazine Award for this single-topic issue in 2002.
Kelly graduated from Princeton University in 1977, where he majored in public and international affairs.