Doug Lederman is editor and co-founder of Inside Larger Ed. He helps lead the information group’s editorial operations, overseeing information content material, opinion items, profession recommendation, blogs and different options. Doug speaks extensively about larger schooling, together with on C-Span and Nationwide Public Radio and at conferences and on campuses across the nation, and his work has appeared in The New York Instances and USA At the moment, amongst different publications. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Larger Schooling from 1999 to 2003. Earlier than that, Doug had labored at The Chronicle since 1986 in a wide range of roles, first as an athletics reporter and editor. He has gained three Nationwide Awards for Schooling Reporting from the Schooling Writers Affiliation, together with one in 2009 for a sequence of Inside Larger Ed articles he co-wrote on faculty rankings. He started his profession as a information clerk at The New York Instances. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton College. Doug lives along with his spouse, Kate Scharff, in Bethesda, Md.