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The Presidents' Forum of Philadelphia
June 10, 2009

Mike Leary
Managing Editor
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Speaker Biography:
Mike Leary is the managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer overseeing news, business, features, and sports. He joined The Inquirer at age 23 in 1972 after earning a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism, where he was the first third-generation graduate. As a young reporter, he covered a range of beats, including the courts. Later, as an investigative reporter, he won multiple local, state and national reporting awards, among them the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award.

He then became an Inquirer national correspondent based in Houston, where he covered the oil industry, the space program and the 1984 presidential election, and a foreign correspondent based in London, reporting on the fall of communism in the late 1980s in Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. He was in Berlin on Nov. 9, 1989, the day the Wall fell. During his time abroad, he reported from more than two dozen countries.

After returning to the states in 1990, he was successively the editor of the Inquirer’s book review section, its Commentary Page, and of sports projects and investigations. One series he edited – about the professionalization of college sports – was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting.

From 2000 until returning to The Inquirer in August of 2007, he was the national editor of the Baltimore Sun, overseeing the national staff and Washington Bureau during the elections of 2000 and 2004, and then the assistant managing editor for metro news. While at The Sun, he developed a morning online “breaking news team,� now a staple at many papers, including The Inquirer.

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