Paul Fain

Paul Fain is co-founder of Work Shift, editor of the must-read newsletter, The Job, and host of The Cusp podcast. A veteran higher education reporter, Fain is perhaps the nation’s top journalist focused on connections between education and work. He started Work Shift after a decade as a senior reporter and then news editor at Inside Higher Ed, where he led the outlet’s 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, 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 was a senior reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education.