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Tim Riley

Tim Riley

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Associate Professor of Journalism, Emerson College

Boston

Biography

NPR CRITIC, EMERSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR and AUTHOR TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for the NEW YORK TIMES, the Los Angeles Review of Books, truthdig.com, NPR's ON POINT and HERE AND NOW, and many other publications. He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman. Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. Brown University sponsored Riley as Critic-In Residence in 2008, and Jon Pareles hailed his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), as bringing "new insight to the act we've known for all these years..." (New York Times Book Review). His television appearances include the PBS Newshour, CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel. Riley gave a keynote address at BEATLES 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Since then, he's given hundreds of lively multi-media lectures on "Censorship in the Arts," and "Rock History." He publishes the riley rock report for substack: https://rileyrockreport.substack.com For archives see http://timrileyauthor.com

Final Covers

npr, music, journalism classical, podcast, politicsrock music, multimedia, rock music history, pop culture, criticism

Doesn’t Cover

Stocks and bond markets.

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Content

Total articles 415

  • The Future's Not What It Used To Be

    By Tim Riley Verified

    Apr. 04, 2025

  • Teardrop Mandolin, Cornball Fervor

    By Tim Riley Verified

    Mar. 21, 2025

  • Hearing Elvis Presley's Memphis

    By Tim Riley Verified

    Mar. 07, 2025

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Company Info

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

+1 617-824-8500

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