Tim Riley (born 1960)[1] is a music journalist who reviews pop and classical music for NPR,[2] and has written for The New York Times,[3] truthdig, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Slate and Salon.
[1] His television appearances include Morning Joe,[4] PBS NewsHour,[5] CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel.
Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston.
[6] Riley gave a keynote address at Beatles 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyväskylä, Finland.
[6] His subsequent projects include the music metaportal Riley Rock Index[8] and a biography of John Lennon (Hyperion, 2011),[9][10] which was included in Kirkus Reviews' list of the Best Nonfiction of 2011.