He attended Harvard College & the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College. Mr. Isaacson began his career in journalism at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He joined TIME in 1978 & served as political correspondent, national editor & editor of new media before becoming the magazine's fourteenth managing editor in 1996. He became Chairman & CEO of CNN in 2001, & then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003. He is he author of American Sketches (2009) Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) among others. The New York Times has reported that Mr. Isaacson is working on a biography of Steve Jobs that is said to have the Apple CEO's full cooperation.