Joanne Lipman

Joanne Lipman has authored a pioneering journalism career. She was the first female Deputy Managing Editor at the Wall Street Journal , where she created the Weekend Journal and Personal Journal sections and oversaw the creation of the paper's Saturday edition. She was founding editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine. And she served as Editor-in-Chief at USA Today and Chief Content Officer at Gannet. Under her editorship, she led these organizations to numerous awards, including six...See more

Joanne Lipman has authored a pioneering journalism career. She was the first female Deputy Managing Editor at the Wall Street Journal , where she created the Weekend Journal and Personal Journal sections and oversaw the creation of the paper's Saturday edition. She was founding editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine. And she served as Editor-in-Chief at USA Today and Chief Content Officer at Gannet. Under her editorship, she led these organizations to numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes. Dubbed "star editor" by CNN, she is author of the No. 1 national bestseller That's What She Said , about closing the gender gap, and coauthor of the music memoir Strings Attached . She is a lecturer at Yale University's Department of Political Science and was the Peretsman Scully Distinguished Journalism Fellow at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study. Lipman is a contributor to CNBC. See less