Diane Harris has joined Kiplinger as a deputy editor.
Harris has been freelancing for the past 18 months. She has been a regular contributor to The New York Times, Time and AARP among other publications, in addition to doing editorial consulting for business thought leaders. Most recently, she helped edit and launch the inaugural Time100 Philanthropy list.
Before that, she was deputy editor and executive editor at Newsweek magazine. She also started Considerable, a personal finance news site for people in their 50s and 60s.
Harris is former editor in chief of Money magazine. Harris left Money magazine in February 2017. She joined Money in 1983 as writer, left in 1992 as a senior editor and rejoined the magazine as a top editor in 2005. She became its first female editor in chief in 2015.
In her two stints at the magazine she won a National Magazine Award for her coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, edited several award-winning series and features, and worked to develop extensions for the brand.
She has written monthly columns in Parenting and AARP magazine and is the co-author of a personal finance book for women, with Georgette Mosbacher, called “It Takes Money, Honey,” based on a feature Harris originally wrote for Money. She was also a senior editor at Working Woman magazine.
