21 Facts About Joanna Coles

Joanna Louise Coles was born on 20 April 1962 and is the Chief Creative and Content Officer for The Daily Beast.

Joanna Coles served as chief content officer for Hearst Magazines from 2016 to 2018.

Joanna Coles has won awards for journalism, including, when she was editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan's national magazine award, for a guide to contraception.

Joanna Coles won a Matrix Award for Women in Communication in 2013, and was named an Editor of the Year by Adweek.

Joanna Coles moved to the United States in 1997 to become bureau chief of The Guardian, and she later joined The Times.

Joanna Coles is an executive producer for The Bold Type, a scripted series airing on Freeform and Hulu.

Joanna Coles is on the boards of Snap, the parent company of Snapchat; Sonos, Density Software and the clean beauty company Blue Mistral.

Joanna Coles is the author of Love Rules, published by HarperCollins; the book was optioned for TV by ABC Signature and FX.

Joanna Coles was born in Otley, West Yorkshire, England, in 1962.

Joanna Coles's mother was a medical social worker and her father was a teacher.

In 1972 at the age of 10, Joanna Coles had her first article published in the children's section of the Yorkshire Post.

Joanna Coles began her journalism career in 1984 on The Spectator.

In June 1997, Joanna Coles moved to the United States to be The Guardians New York bureau chief.

Joanna Coles was the articles editor of New York Magazine from 2001 to 2004 before becoming executive editor of More.

In 2006, Joanna Coles made the move to Hearst to become editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine.

Joanna Coles was named Adweek's 2011 Editor of the Year for her work.

Joanna Coles turned the magazine away from its "pleasing your man" approach towards women's empowerment.

In 2016, it was announced that Joanna Coles would become Hearst's first chief content officer.

Joanna Coles is an advocate for women in media and the business world.

Joanna Coles sits on the board of Women's Entrepreneurs New York City, an initiative to expand female entrepreneurship with a focus on underserved women and communities.

Joanna Coles is on the boards of public companies Snap Inc and Sonos, the non-profit Women's entrepreneurs NYC, and private companies such as Grover, Density and Blue Mistral.