Alan C. Miller

Alan C. Miller is the founder of the News Literacy Project, the largest provider of news literacy education in the country. He established NLP in 2008 to give middle school and high school educators the tools to teach students how to separate fact from fiction in the digital age and served as chief executive officer until June 2022. He was named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine in 2020 and was a winner of the 2022 AARP Purpose Prize. Miller earlier spent 29 years as a journalist, the last 21 at the Los Angeles Times. He received more than a dozen national reporting honors, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawai‘i, where he was a student participant at the East-West Center; in June the Center presented him with its Distinguished Alumni Award.