JOANNE LIPMAN


Joanne Lipman 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 the
bestselling author of books including NEXT! The Power of Reinvention
in Life and Work and the No. 1 bestseller THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID: What
Men and Women Need to Know About Working Together. She is a Yale
University journalism lecturer on the Media and Democracy, and an
on-air CNBC contributor.


Previously, Lipman was Chief Content Officer of Gannett, where she was
Editor-in-Chief of its USA Today and the USA Today Network,
encompassing the flagship publication plus 109 metro newspapers
including the Detroit Free Press, the Des Moines Register, and the
Arizona Republic. In that role, she oversaw more than 3,000
journalists and led the organization to three Pulitzer prizes.


Lipman began her career as a reporter for 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. While there she created Weekend Journal and Personal Journal,
and oversaw creation of the Saturday edition. She subsequently was
founding editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine, which won
Loeb and National Magazine Awards.


Lipman’s work has been published in numerous outlets including The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time,
Fortune, Newsweek and the Harvard Business Review. She is a frequent
public speaker and has appeared as a television commentator on ABC,
NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS, among others. She is also co-author, with
Melanie Kupchynsky, of the acclaimed music memoir “Strings Attached.”
A Yale graduate, she and her husband are the parents of two adult
children.