He writes regularly for outlets such as CNN, The Atlantic, The Week, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Asbury University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. For The Atlantic , Wheeler has written more than a dozen articles about everything from student free speech rights to the disappearance of funny headlines in the age of Google. His 2015 Atlantic article on the challenges facing student newspapers was promoted on the websites and social media accounts of Editor & Publisher, PBS MediaShift, the Pew Research Center and Harvard’s Nieman Lab.