Alan Miller

Background

About Alan 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 and high school educators the tools to teach their students how to separate fact from fiction in the digital age. He stepped down as CEO in June 2022, after leading NLP for 14½ years. NLP now offers programs and resources for educators and the general public to teach, learn and share the ability to be smart, active consumers of news and other information and equal and engaged participants in democracy. Miller previously spent 29 years as a journalist, the last 21 at the Los Angeles Times. During his journalism career, Miller received more than a dozen national reporting honors, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He was most recently named the 2022 AARP Purpose Prize, the 2022 EWC Distinguished Alumni Award from the East-West Center in Honolulu, a 2022 AARP Purpose Prize winner, and was named a Washingtonian of the Year in 2020 by Washingtonian Magazine. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii.