Time Inc.

Executive Team

Jim Kelly
Managing Editor

As managing editor of Time Inc., Jim Kelly works closely with Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, helping to oversee the editorial content of approximately 125 titles and ensuring that the company's 3,000 journalists adhere to the highest standards of their craft.

Before assuming his new post in the summer of 2006, Jim served as managing editor of TIME, the world's most popular newsmagazine, with nearly 30 million readers. Kelly became managing editor in January, 2001. During his tenure, TIME won four National Magazine awards, including the coveted General Excellence award in 2006, and was nominated 12 times. In 2004, TIME received an Emmy - its first - for its contribution to the ABC News series "Iraq: Where Things Stand."

Kelly joined TIME in 1978, where his first job was writing Milestones. He served as foreign editor during Gulf War I and the fall of the Soviet Union, and became deputy managing editor in 1996. He oversaw Corporate Welfare, the four-part investigative series by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele that won the National Magazine Award for Public Interest in 1999. Kelly also helped oversee TIME's acclaimed turn-of-the-century projects, including the magazine's 75th anniversary celebration in 1998 which drew more than 100 cover subjects to New York City's Radio City Music Hall, as well as the "TIME 100" series of six issues that named and profiled the century's most important leaders. Kelly brought back the series in 2004, making it an annual listing of the world's most influential people.

Of the more than 275 issues Kelly and his team produced during his tenure at TIME, his most poignant remains the black-bordered special issue marking the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Less than 36 hours after the attacks, Kelly and his team produced a 48-page issue that consisted of a 28-page photo portfolio and precisely one story-a 10,000-word account of what happened that day written by Nancy Gibbs and reported by the staff of TIME. TIME went back to press three times, ultimately distributing 8 million copies-a record number for a single issue. TIME "Persons of the Year" selected by Kelly included: Mayor Rudy Giuliani (2001), the Whistleblowers (2002), the American Soldier (2003), George W. Bush (2004), and Bono with Bill and Melinda Gates (2005).

The son of a New York City policeman and a college librarian assistant, Kelly attended Regis High School in Manhattan and Princeton University, where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He currently serves on the Board of Visitors of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.