Laurel Leff is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University.  She was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Miami Herald and an editor with American Lawyer Media Inc. and The Hartford Courant.  Leff has a masters in the study of law from Yale University and a masters in communications from the University of Miami. She received an A.B. from Princeton University with a major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Her book, Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, was published in April 2005 by Cambridge University Press. The American Journalism Historians Association selected Buried by The Times as the best media history book of 2005, and ForeWord Magazine chose it as the best history book of 2005.