Michael Duffy is an American journalist and magazine editor. He is currently the assistant managing editor of ‘Time’ magazine 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 newsmagazine’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’ (1992).
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 White House 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.
Prior to coming to ‘Time’, he was a staff reporter for ‘Defense Week’.
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