Paul Fain
Co-Founder of Work Shift
Paul Fain is co-founder of Work Shift,听editor of the must-read newsletter,听, and host of听The Cusp podcast. A veteran higher education reporter, Fain is perhaps the nation鈥檚 top journalist focused on connections between education and work. He started听Work Shift听after a decade as a senior reporter and then news editor at听Inside Higher Ed, where he led the outlet鈥檚 coverage of low-income and first-generation students, college completion, community colleges, federal policy, and emerging models of higher education. He also was the founding host of the successful podcast,听The Key with Inside Higher Ed, and has contributed chapters for books on innovation in higher education, published by the Harvard University Press and the Stanford University Press. Earlier in his career, Fain听was a senior reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education.