Bio:
Joanne Lipman (born June 18, 1961) is an author, media advisor and editor. She is co-author, with Melanie Kupchynsky, of Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations, published by Hyperion in the U.S. in October 2013, with international editions in Europe and Asia. Ms. Lipman serves as an adviser to news organizations such as CNN, Yahoo, and NYPR. She was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine and Portfolio.com website from 2005 to 2009. Portfolio magazine won National Magazine and Loeb awards and spawned Michael Lewis’s bestseller The Big Short, based on his cover story about the financial crisis. Previously she was a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, the first woman to hold that position, where she supervised coverage that earned three Pulitzer prizes. She is a frequent television commentator on business issues, appearing on CNN, NBC, CNBC, CBS and other news outlets. She has also contributed to the New York Times.
A native of East Brunswick, New Jersey, Joanne Lipman graduated from East Brunswick High School and summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. degree in history. While a student at Yale, she worked as an intern for The Wall Street Journal, which she joined as a staff reporter upon graduating in 1983. After covering the insurance and real estate beats, she created and wrote the Journal’s daily Advertising column from 1989 through 1992. She served as a Page One editor of the Journal from 1992 through 1996.
In 1998, she created the Journal’s popular Friday section, Weekend Journal. She served as its Editor-in-Chief through 2000, when she was named a Deputy Managing Editor of the newspaper, the first woman to hold that post. In 2002, she oversaw the creation of a new fourth section, Personal Journal.The New York Times described her role as the Journal’s “innovator in chief.”
In 2005, Lipman moved to Conde Nast to create Conde Nast Portfolio and Portfolio.com, a business magazine and website that launched in April 2007. The print magazine folded after 21 issues in May 2009. The website, Portfolio.com, is now being run by a Conde Nast sister company, American City Business Journals.
Lipman serves on the Yale University Council, the Yale Daily News board of directors, and theBreastcancer.org advisory board. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Awards, among others.
Awards:
In 2008, Portfolio was awarded a National Magazine Award, with the magazine’s “Brief” section cited for being “Consistently smart, contrarian, and well-reported…. an original take on ambition, invention, ego, drama, and conflict. The surprisingly fresh and clean design complements and furthers and section’s distinctive voice as it charts the impact of business on society, culture, and politics.”
While on the Journal’s Page One, Lipman edited a series that earned the paper the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. In 2005, the Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage that appeared in Weekend Journal and Personal Journal.
Lipman received the John Hancock award in 1993 for Excellence for her daily Advertising column. In 2001, she received the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications for achievement in the newspaper category.
Ms. Lipman, a breast cancer survivor, is also one of the Professional Advisory Board members ofbreastcancer.org.
Personal Life:
Lipman is married to Thomas Distler, an entertainment lawyer. They have two children.
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About Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
http://stringsattachedbook.com/
The Fine Art of Tough Love.
If you’re lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend.
For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a public-school music teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, known as Mr. K–a Ukrainian-born taskmaster who yelled and stomped and screamed, and who drove his students harder than anyone had ever driven them before. Through sheer force of will, he made them better than they had any right to be.
It wasn’t until years later that they realized how much they loved him for it. And at the end of his life, they gathered once more, traveling from every corner of the country and creating a symphony orchestra the size of the New York Philharmonic, to play one last concert together – this time for him.
Strings Attached tells the inspiring, poignant, and powerful story of this remarkable man, whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for his students. And it raises provocative questions we all face every day: How hard should we push our kids? How do we best help our children succeed?
Lyrically recounted by two former students–acclaimed journalist Joanne Lipman and Mr. K’s daughter, Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Melanie Kupchynsky–Strings Attached takes you on a journey that spans from his days as a forced Nazi laborer and his later home life as a husband to an invalid wife, to his heart-breaking search for his missing daughter, Melanie’s sister.
This is an unforgettable tale–a captivating narrative that is as absorbing as fiction–about the power of a great teacher, but also about the legacy that remains long after the last note has faded into silence: lessons in resilience, excellence, and tough love.
Strings Attached is for anyone indebted to a mentor and for those devoted to igniting excellence in others.
Media:
Joanne Lipman to host ‘Reliable Sources’
“For the first time since introducing a rotating cast of hosts, CNN’s “Reliable Sources” will be fronted by a woman.”
TVNewser | October 18, 2013
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/joanne-lipman-to-host-reliable-sources_b192096
Is Music the Key to Success?
By Joanne Lipman
The New York Times | October 12, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/is-music-the-key-to-success.html?_r=0
Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results
By Joanne Lipman
The Wall Street Journal | Sept. 27, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304213904579095303368899132
And the Orchestra Played On
By Joanne Lipman
The New York Times | February 27, 2010