Chris Vogel

Boston Magazine Editor-In-Chief

Chris Vogel is editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine and the longest-serving editorial director since the magazine’s founding in 1970. An award-winning journalist with three decades of digital and print experience across daily newspapers, weekly publications, and monthly magazines, he previously served as chief content officers of Metro Corp, overseeing Boston and Philadelphia Magazines. Under Vogel’s leadership, both titles garnered dozens of national awards (Boston Magazine was named best city magazine in America), and he launched popular features including the annual “150 Most Influential Bostonians” awards. As an investigative reporter, he covered stories from human smuggling to the Mexican drug war to oil worker kidnappings in West Africa. His work also uncovered new evidence in the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, exposed prisoner abuses that led to federal prosecutions, and revealed the hostage-taking of an American student in China by North Korean spies. A Livingston Award finalist and college basketball player, he likes pillow forts.