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John X. Miller

Board Chair

A photo of John X. Miller, a Black man with a graying goatee. He is bald and wears dark glasses and a black suit with a colorful shirt and matching tie and pocket square.

John X. Miller is the former Senior Editor for Sports, Business and Features at The Dallas Morning News. Previously, he was senior editor for news, commentary and HBCUs for Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated), ESPN’s website that reports on the intersection of race, sports and culture.

Miller was managing editor of the Winston-Salem Journal newspaper for 21/2 years before moving to ESPN in 2016. He is a native of Winston-Salem and was the first African-American managing editor of the Journal.

He is a veteran journalist of more than four decades, having been a top editor at several newspapers across the country including the Detroit Free Press, USA Today, the Charlotte Observer, Winston-Salem Journal and Myrtle Beach Sun News. He was also the top editor at the Hickory (NC) Daily Record and Lansdale (PA) Reporter.

Significantly, he was a founding staffer of USA Today in 1982 and an original staff member of The Undefeated in 2016, making his decades-long career truly unique.

He has led award-winning newsrooms in Winston-Salem, Hickory, Myrtle Beach and Lansdale, capturing awards for public service, general excellence, reporting, editorial writing, multimedia journalism, online breaking news, diversity, newspaper design and outstanding cooperation as an Associated Press member.

He currently serves as board chair for the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and has served on various ASNE and APME boards and committees over the years. He has been a Pulitzer Prize Juror, a facilitator at the American Press Institute and was the first Donald W. Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at Washington and Lee University in 2005. He is a HistoryMaker, a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.

From 1999 to 2008, he was at the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit Media Partnership, first as the Free Press’ Public Editor, then as the DMP’s Director of Community Affairs. His primary responsibilities as Public Editor were writing corrections, handling accuracy, credibility, readership and ethical issues for the newspaper, and he also wrote a column in an ombudsman role.

He is a 1977 graduate of Washington and Lee University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, where he serves on the Advisory Board for the School of Journalism and Mass Communications.