Michael Kilian

Michael Kilian is New York state editor for Gannett, overseeing news sites upstate and downstate including his hometown newspaper the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, where he is executive editor. He has been a newspaper editor since 1990, working primarily with Gannett Co. Inc. in locations including Saratoga Springs, Utica and Rochester, New York; Burlington, Vermont; Salisbury, Maryland; and Cincinnati, Ohio. While news director at The Cincinnati Enquirer, the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2018 for coverage of the heroin epidemic. Kilian is a graduate of Cornell University.