Richard Zoglin

Richard Zoglin is a senior editor and writer at Time, and also served as its television and theatre critic. He also writes on a variety of cultural topics.

Zoglin joined Time as a staff writer in 1983, and for more than a decade he was the magazine’s TV critic. In that job, he reviewed hundreds of TV shows, covered major media mergers, examined media coverage of such news events as the first Gulf War, and wrote cover stories on David Letterman, Bill Cosby, Diane Sawyer, and Star Trek, among others.

He began his journalism career in San Francisco at Saturday Review magazine. From 1973 to 1978 he was a New York-based editor and writer, contributing articles about television to the New York Times, The New Republic, Village Voice and other publications. Richard then moved to Atlanta to become television critic for the Atlanta Constitution. He left Atlanta in 1982 to help launch Time’s television magazine.