Managing Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Background: As managing editor, Scott Smallwood serves as the day-to-day manager of The Chronicle of Higher Education newsroom, working with editors, reporters, producers, and designers on both the newspaper and the Web site. Previously he was managing editor of The Chronicle’s Web site, leading a major redesign in 2008-9. He also coordinated enterprise reporting across the newsroom.
After becoming an editor, in 2005, he supervised coverage of faculty issues, including tenure, graduate school, the academic labor market, academic freedom, teaching, and curriculum. For a time he also oversaw technology coverage.
When he joined The Chronicle, in 2000, Smallwood reported on a range of faculty matters, specializing in academic labor. He appeared several times on radio programs around the country, talking about the unionization of graduate students.
In 2005 two packages of stories that he co-wrote—one on plagiarism and one on diploma mills—were chosen as finalists for the National Magazine Award in reporting.
Before coming to The Chronicle, Smallwood worked as a reporter at the Albuquerque Journal (1997-2000), in New Mexico, and The Island Packet, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. (1996-97). He has contributed freelance pieces to The New York Times’s Modern Love column and to Men’s Journal magazine. A native of New Jersey, Smallwood earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.
Honors: Finalist, National Magazine Award, 2005.
