Joanna Coles

Joanna Coles

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderFemale
Birthdayavr. 20, 1962
BiographyJoanna Louise Coles (born 20 April 1962) is the Chief Creative and Content Officer for The Daily Beast. She served as 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 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.

Coles’ foray into television began with the Style network's Running in Heels, which she co-created and executive produced; she was a mentor on Project Runway: All-Stars and executive produced the E! reality series So Cosmo, in which she also appeared on camera. She is an executive producer for The Bold Type, a scripted series airing on Freeform (formerly known as ABC Family) and Hulu.

She is on the boards of Snap, the parent company of Snapchat; Sonos, Density Software and the clean beauty company Blue Mistral. She is the author of Love Rules, published by HarperCollins; the book was optioned for TV by ABC Signature and FX. In 2019, she signed a first-look deal with ABC Studios. She currently resides in New York City. She has two sons with Peter Godwin.

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