Joanne Lipman
About Joanne Lipman
Joanne Lipman is a bestselling author and news executive positioned at the nexus of media and technology. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of USA Today, USA Today Network, Conde Nast Portfolio, and The Wall Street Journal's Weekend Journal, leading those organizations to six Pulitzer Prizes. She is the bestselling author of the new book "NEXT! The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work," as well as "That's What She Said," about closing the gender gap. A thought leader on diversity and inclusion, she has worked with numerous Fortune 500 firms, and counseled senior leadership teams and individual CEO's. She is also an on-air contributor at CNBC and a Yale University lecturer on The Media and Democracy. Described as "innovator in chief" by The New York Times, Lipman created multiple new content initiatives at the publications she's led. As Chief Content Officer of Gannett, she was Editor in Chief of its USA TODAY and USA TODAY Network, encompassing more than 3,000 journalists at 110 newspapers including the flagship title as well as the Detroit Free Press, the Arizona Republic, the Des Moines Register and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Under her leadership, the Network was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes and had an additional three Pulitzer finalists. She began her career at The Wall Street Journal, ultimately rising to Deputy Managing Editor -- the first woman to attain that post-- and supervising coverage that won three Pulitzer Prizes. She subsequently was founding Editor-in-Chief of Condé Nast Portfolio magazine and portfolio.com, which won Loeb and National Magazine Awards. Ms. Lipman is co-author of the New York Times Education bestseller "Strings Attached," which has also been published across Europe and Asia. In addition to CNBC, Lipman has appeared as a television commentator on ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC, PBS, and MSNBC, among others. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and Newsweek, among others, and her journalism has been collected in multiple anthologies. A winner of the Matrix Award for women in communications, she serves on the advisory boards of data.world, Breastcancer.org, the Wire China and the Yale School of Music, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served on the. boards of numerous non-profits and was a Commissioner on the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy. She has been a judge for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Awards and the Loeb Awards. For more information, please see JoanneLipman.com.