Michael Bolden is CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute, a journalism nonprofit that supports local and community-based media through research, programs and products that foster healthy, responsive and resilient news organizations. Previously, Bolden was a managing editor at The San Francisco Chronicle. Earlier in his career, he was a journalism lecturer at Stanford University and managing director of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships. He also served as editorial director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more than a decade, he was an editor at The Washington Post, where he participated in two Pulitzer-winning features. He’s also been a reporter and editor in Florida and Louisiana.
Bolden is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Alabama. He also was a Maynard Media Academy Fellow at Harvard University. He is a longtime member of the National Press Club, AAJA, IRE, NABJ, NAHJ, ONA, SPJ and the Sigma Tau Delta International Honor Society. He serves as treasurer of the board of directors of the Student Press Law Center, the nonprofit that promotes, supports and defends the First Amendment rights of high school and college journalists. He lives in Northern Virginia.
