Joanna Coles

Joanna Louise Coles (born 20 April 1962) was chief content officer for Hearst Magazines from 2016 to 2018. She has won awards for journalism, including, when she was editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan’s a national magazine award, for a guide to contraception. She won a Matrix Award for Women in Communication in 2013 (where she was introduced by Florida Congresswoman Val Demings), and was named an Editor of the Year by Adweek.  Born in the United Kingdom, Coles graduated from the University of East Anglia with a bachelor of arts in English and American literature before starting her career at The Spectator. She moved to the United States in 1997 to become bureau chief of The Guardian, and she later joined The Times. In 2006, she joined Hearst as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine, then Cosmopolitan (2012-2016), before becoming the company's chief content officer in 2016.