
Michael Riley has worked as a national reporter at The Denver Post for five years, where he first covered immigration before roving the Rocky Mountains as a regional reporter covering the West.
His work at The Post has been honored nationally by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Best in the West competition, and Columbia University.
He came to the Post after spending five years as a journalist in Central America and Mexico, including three years working for the Houston Chronicle in Mexico City.
He is the winner of a year-long Inter America Press Association Fellowship, and his dispatches from Latin America have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, and The Economist.
His education includes a BA in philosophy from Williams College and an MA in political science from the University of Minnesota. He began his career in journalism as a bureau chief for the Casper Star Tribune.