Former Times correspondent will edit Marie Claire

Posted by Jeffrey Blyth on 19 April 2006 at 09:38
Tags: Journalism, Marie Claire, Times, United States

A former New York bureau chief for The Times has been appointed editor-in chief-of Marie Claire, the Hearst-owned American version of the French beauty and fashion magazine.

Joanna Coles replaces Lesley Jane Seymour, who has been editor for almost five years.

Coles, after leaving The Times in 2001, worked for New York Magazine, first as articles editor and then features editor. Eighteen months ago she joined More, the Meredith magazine for women over 50, as executive editor. She was a popular and respected editor.

Coles will take up her new job in May. Hearst has made no official comment except to announce Seymour is leaving the company.

One of the oddities of the unexpected change is that Marie Claire was recently nominated for an award at next month’s National Magazine Awards, its first nomination for at least five years. Also Marie Claire’s circulation, under Seymour, grew thre per cent in the second half of last year to a total of just under 1 million, plus another half million newsstand sales.

Tags: Journalism, Marie Claire, Times, United States