Greg Toppo

Greg Toppo is a seasoned journalist and Senior Editor at Inside Higher Ed, with over 25 years of experience primarily focused on education reporting. Before his role at Inside Higher Ed, he spent 15 years as the national education reporter for USA Today, where he gained significant recognition in the field.

In addition to his editorial work, Toppo is an accomplished author. He wrote The Game Believes In You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter (2015) and co-authored Running with Robots: The American High School’s Third Century (2021), which explores the implications of automation and AI on high school education.

Toppo has also held leadership positions within the journalism community, serving as president of the Education Writers Association from 2017 to 2021. His academic contributions include teaching journalism at Northwestern University and serving as a Visiting Journalist in Residence at Knox College in Illinois in 2022.