Michael graduated from Bexley High School in 1976 and from Oberlin College in 1980.

He has been TIME’s Washington Bureau Chief for six years and was recently named Assistant Managing Editor. Michael has been at the center of the magazine’s coverage of politics and presidents for 18 years.

Michael joined TIME in 1985 as a Pentagon correspondent and was assigned to cover Congress a year later. He spent six years covering both the Bush and Clinton White House for TIME and in 1995 won the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. In 1997, he worked nearly full-time on campaign finance scandals with TIME’s Michael Weisskopf and Viveca Novak, and in March of 1998, the trio won the 1998 Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting, awarded annually by the Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center. He has written, or co-wrote, more than 40 TIME cover stories.

Since 1997, Duffy has overseen 20 correspondents, the newsmagazine’s largest news gathering operation. He is the co-author, with Assistant Managing Editor Dan Goodgame, of Marching In Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush, published in 1992 by Simon & Schuster. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face the Nation, and is a regular guest on CNN and PBS's Washington Week in Review.

Prior to coming to TIME, he was a staff reporter for Defense Week.

Michael lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with his wife and their three sons.
 

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