Margaret Mannix

Executive Editor

Background: Margaret Mannix was promoted to executive editor in November 2008 and in that capacity now oversees the Nation & World section and the growing Opinion section of U.S.News & World Report both online and in the magazine.  She manages a staff of reporters, editors, bloggers, and Web producers on all political campaign coverage, as well as domestic and foreign policy, Capitol Hill, the White House, the Supreme Court, Washington Whispers, international affairs, and religion. Since joining U.S. News in 1990 as a reporter, Mannix has written on everything from personal finance and consumer affairs to education and health. After reporting for the investigative and business teams, she became the business section's deputy editor in 2002 and then assistant managing editor. In 2005, she assumed leadership over health and medicine content, both print and online. Mannix was most recently managing editor of the Nation & World section.

Publications: Author of the U.S. News book What College Really Costs (Sourcebooks, February 2005) | Editor of the U.S. News book Paying for College (2003)

Media appearances: Mannix has been interviewed on national and major metro television, including CNN Headline News, MSNBC, and WNBC-TV in New York City.