Chris Herring

Chris Herring is a senior lecturer at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.

Prior to joining Medill full-time in 2026, Herring covered the NBA for a decade and a half, serving as a senior writer at ESPN, Sports Illustrated and FiveThirtyEight after developing a reputation for unusual, data-savvy storytelling methods at The Wall Street Journal, where he began working straight out of college. He covered the New York Knicks as a beat reporter for five seasons at The Journal before covering the league on a national scale in a highly creative fashion.

In 2022, his critically acclaimed book, Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks, made The New York Times bestseller list and was named to former president Barack Obama's summer-reading list.

The Chicago-area native, who previously served as a member of Medill's adjunct faculty from 2017 to 2022, started his career as a news-reporting intern at The Journal in the summer of 2009, covering law and the American South before being hired full-time later that year.