As deputy managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Heidi Landecker supervised the copy desk and multiplatform production. She joined The Chronicle as a senior editor in 1998, was appointed assistant managing editor in 2004, and became deputy managing editor in 2014. She moonlit as a writer for The Chronicle Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and she managed and edited Lingua Franca, a blog about language in academe, for seven years.
Her freelance work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The Chronicle, and elsewhere. She was a copy editor at The Boston Globe Magazine and The Boston Observer, a staff editor at The Atlantic, and a senior editor at Architecture and Landscape Architecture magazines. She was a researcher for the novelist Gore Vidal from 1983-98.
Landecker received a B.A. in art and environmental studies from Antioch College and an M.S. in science and environmental education from Cornell University.
