14 Facts About Jane Amsterdam

Jane Ellen Amsterdam was born on June 15,1951 and is a former American magazine and newspaper editor.

Jane Amsterdam later joined the New York Post, becoming the first female editor of a major New York City newspaper.

Jane Amsterdam's mother, Fay, was a housewife and her father, Morton, a dentist and university professor.

Jane Amsterdam was raised in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania and worked for her high school newspaper.

Jane Amsterdam attended Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where which she interned at Philadelphia magazine.

Shortly afterward, Jane Amsterdam was made deputy editor of a Washington Post investigative unit under Woodward.

In 1983, Amsterdam was hired by D Herbert Lipson to begin assembling his new magazine, Manhattan, inc.

Under Jane Amsterdam's editorship the magazine was a National Magazine Award finalist for the same category in 1986 and 1987 and for the Single-Topic Issue category in 1988.

In March 1987, Jane Amsterdam abruptly resigned in a dispute over editorial control, accusing Lipson of wanting to favor advertisers.

In January 1988, Amsterdam joined book publishing company Alfred A Knopf as senior editor.

In May 1988, Jane Amsterdam was hired by the New York Post as editor and was given full control over all of the newspaper's sections except the editorial division.

Jane Amsterdam oversaw the debut of the Posts new Sunday edition, a feature intended to compete against rival New York tabloids the Daily News and Newsday, and worked on the section's book review and travel supplements.

Jane Amsterdam was a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and served as a judge for the National Magazine Awards in 1988 and 1989, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 and 1990.

From 1985 to 2000, Amsterdam was married to writer Jonathan Z Larsen, the former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, with whom she adopted a son, Edward Roy, in 1990.