Joanne Lipman

Joanne Lipman is editor in chief of Condé Nast Portfolio. Until October 2005, she was a deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal.

Lipman joined the Journal in 1983 as a reporter in New York, covering insurance and real estate, before moving to the advertising beat in 1986, where she initiated and wrote the paper's advertising column from 1989 until she became a Page One editor in 1993. On Page One, she oversaw projects including Ron Suskind's Pulitzer Prize-winning series on Cedric Jennings, an inner-city high-school student attempting to attend an elite college.

In 1998, Lipman created one of the paper's most successful innovations, Weekend Journal, a Friday section that explores issues of personal interest to business readers. She served as the section's editor in chief from 1998 to 2000.

From 2000 to 2005, Lipman served as a deputy managing editor, helping to direct the paper's news coverage. She oversaw the Journal's 2002 redesign, including a new Page One format, the enhancement of the Money and Investing section, and the creation of a new fourth section, Personal Journal, that reports on personal finance, health, travel, cars, and consumer electronics. She also helped oversee the launch of Weekend Edition, a Saturday issue of the paper that made its debut in September 2005. Under Lipman's editorial leadership, the Journal received two Pulitzer Prizes in 2005 for Weekend Journal and Personal Journal coverage.

In 2001, Lipman received the Matrix Award in the newspapers category from New York Women in Communications, and in 1993, she was given a John Hancock Award for Excellence in the columnist category for her daily advertising column.

Lipman is a graduate of Yale University.