Assistant Managing Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Expertise: Higher-education news and issues | Chronicle editorial style
Background: Heidi Landecker has been an assistant managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education since 2005, after joining its staff as a copy editor in 1998. She supervises the copy desk, edits the "5 Minutes With" Q&A column, moderates the Lingua Franca blog, and manages various aspects of producing The Chronicle and The Chronicle Review, online and in print.
Before becoming an assistant managing editor, she served as copy chief and as a senior editor, with a particular interest in public colleges, the faculty, admissions, and writing in academe. She moonlights occasionally as a writer.
As a senior editor at Architecture magazine from 1990 to 1997, she wrote about residential, corporate, and campus architecture. Her freelance articles and essays on politics, protectionism, and travel have appeared in The Boston Globe and The Atlantic Monthly, and her short stories have been published in The Boston Globe Magazine and The New Yorker.
Before coming to The Chronicle, she also worked as editor at Spacemaker Press, a senior editor at Landscape Architecture magazine, a copy editor at The Boston Globe Magazine, and a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly. From 1983 to 1999, she was a researcher and fact checker for the novelist Gore Vidal.
Landecker received a bachelor's degree in environmental studies and art from Antioch College and a master's in science and environmental education, with a focus on environmental writing, from Cornell University.
