Colin Manning was New Hampshire Governor John Lynch's Press Secretary starting on December 18, 2006.^[1] He stayed on with Lynch until Lynch's final year in office in 2012, at which point, according to Kevin Landrigan, Manning left for a communications position at Harvard, which he started on October 29 of that year.^{[citation needed]}

Before Manning was Lynch's Press Secretary, he was the statehouse reporter for Foster's Daily Democrat from 2002 to 2006. Prior to that, from 1999 to 2002 he was a correspondent for the Manchester Union Leader. Manning was also a contributor to WMUR's Sunday morning public affairs program "Closeup."

He is a 1997 graduate of the University of New Hampshire.