From there he took a job in Chicago at the Chicago-Sun Times as an assistant business editor, and lead reporter, he covered politics and economics.
Kelly moved up the corporate ladder quickly at The Washington Post to congressional editor where he managed coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate and within a short time moved up to national editor where he helped keep The Washington Post's political and national news coverage at top notch quality.
[7] Kelly also made the decision in 2009 to cease regular print publication in favor of a digital publishing model.
[9] Kelly is the author of four books including Amazon, a look into the drastically changing rainforest, co written with Mark London in 1985.
Kelly's most recent works include Adventures in Porkland, an analysis of the abuse of the 1990 congressional budget published in 1992, and The Last Forest: The Amazon in the age of globalization [12] in 2007.