Michael Hoyt

Michael Hoyt

Mike Hoyt is the executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, where he has written and edited many articles about journalism and its challenges. He was hired by CJR in 1985 as an associate editor/writer, promoted to senior editor in 1994, and became the magazine’s executive editor, responsible for content both in print and on CJR.org, in 2001. He is the co-editor of Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It, published in 2007 by Melville House. Before CJR, he was a freelance magazine writer, a copy editor, and a reporter for two dailies. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.