Cathleen P. Black
CATHLEEN P. BLACKPresidentHearst Magazines
Cathleen Black—dubbed “The First Lady of American Magazines” and “one of the leading figures in American publishing over the past two decades” by the Financial Times—heads Hearst Magazines, a division of The Hearst Corporation and one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly magazines. She manages the financial performance and development of some of the industry's best-known titles: Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, O, The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Popular Mechanics, Harper's BAZAAR, Redbook, and Town & Country—19 magazines in all. She also oversees 142 international editions of those magazines selling on newsstands in more than 100 countries. She has overseen 11 magazine launches and acquisitions in the last six years, most recently launching SHOP Etc., Weekend and Quick & Simple, Hearst’s first weekly magazine in the U.S.
One of Black's key areas of emphasis is extending the brand names of Hearst’s titles beyond magazines, into more than 3,500 products on the world market. She also has promoted growth in licensing, digital and Internet strategies, and has overseen aggressive international expansion.
Having begun her career in advertising sales with several magazines, including the launch of Ms., she made publishing history in 1979 when she became the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine: New York.
Black is widely credited for the success of USA Today, where for eight years she was first president, then publisher, as well as a board member and executive vice president/marketing of Gannett, its parent company. In 1991 she became president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America, the industry’s largest trade group, where she served for five years before joining Hearst.
She serves as a member of the boards of IBM, the Coca-Cola Company and iVillage, and held a two-year term as chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America. She is also a board member of the Advertising Council, a trustee of The University of Notre Dame and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2005, she made the Forbes list of “The 100 Most Powerful Women” and was listed among Fortune magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Women in American Business” for the eighth consecutive year. She has also been named “Publishing Executive of the Year” by Advertising Age, and Crain’s New York Business named her one of its “100 Most Influential Business Leaders.”
Black is a graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., and holds eight honorary degrees. She is married to Tom Harvey, and resides in New York City with their two teenage children.
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