Speaker Bios - The Council of Independent Colleges

Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. From 1999 to 2003, he was editor of the Chronicle of
Higher Education. Jaschik graduated from Cornell University in 1985.
Contact: Scott Jaschik, Founder and Editor, Inside Higher Ed, 1015 18th Street, NW, Suite 1100,
Washington, DC 20036; (202) 659-9208; scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com
Jenna Johnson covers higher education and youth culture for the Washington Post. She has written about
the Pennsylvania State University sex abuse scandal, teen moms who enroll in college, prescription drug
abuse, unpaid internships, and quirky college rankings with questionable methodologies. Johnson runs a
blog, Campus Overload, and tweets as @wpjenna. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska.
Contact: Jenna Johnson, Higher Education Reporter, Washington Post, 1150 15th Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20071; (202) 334-9606/6000; johnsonj@washpost.com
Tim Jones, interim executive creative director at North Carolina State University, provides vision,
direction, and strategy at the intersection of web, design, marketing, and media to cultivate and implement
innovative ideas for the university. He previously served as the interim chief communications officer at
North Carolina State, where he started in 2007 as the director of web communications. In that position, he
established and evolved the university’s social media presence on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and
location-based platforms. He has been in higher education for ten years, working at the College of
William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, for six years before arriving at NC State. At William &
Mary, Jones worked in university relations as a writer, editor, photographer, news marketer, occasional
producer, webmaster, and director of web communications. He spent his final year there helping engineer
and launch the university-wide web redesign project. Prior to working in higher education, Jones worked
as a reporter for a small semi-weekly newspaper in southeastern Virginia.
Contact: Tim Jones, Interim Executive Creative Director for University Communications, Campus Box
7508, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695; (919) 515-1005; tim_jones@ncsu.edu
Doug Lederman, editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Scott Jaschik, he leads
the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice,
blogs, and other features. Lederman speaks widely about higher education, including on C-Span and
National Public Radio and at meetings around the country. His work has appeared in the New York Times,
USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, and Princeton Alumni Weekly. Lederman was managing editor of
the Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. Before that, he had worked at the Chronicle since
1986 in various roles, first as an athletics reporter and editor. Lederman has won three National Awards
for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one in 2009 for a series of
Inside Higher Ed articles on college rankings. He began his career as a news clerk at the New York Times.
Lederman graduated in 1984 from Princeton University.
Contact: Doug Lederman, Founder and Editor, Inside Higher Ed, 1015 18th Street, NW, Suite 1100,
Washington, DC 20036; (202) 659-9208; doug.lederman@insidehighered.com
Marie Malzberg is senior editorial producer in New York for CNN Newsroom, the cable channel’s
afternoon news show. After graduating from Fordham University, where she earned a bachelor of arts
degree in communications, Malzberg began her career in 1994 with the Rush Limbaugh Show, where she
spent six years in various positions including editing and formatting daily radio show production
elements, producing guest-hosted shows, remote broadcasts, and “Best Of” programming, then eventually
screening Limbaugh’s calls. Malzberg left the program in 2000 to tackle motherhood and, a few years
later, headed back to talk radio, producing the Linda Chavez Program for the IDT Radio Network. In
2006, Malzberg arrived at CNN to work with Paula Zahn in a prime-time slot that was eventually taken
over by Campbell Brown, where she served as an editorial producer, booking major newsmakers from
across the globe. In 2010, Malzberg joined CNN Newsroom as senior editorial producer. In that position,
she oversees and books all guests for the daily program, which is seen live across all CNN platforms. She
has been the recipient of and part of two Peabody Award-winning reporting teams.
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