Conde Nast Portfolio editor Lipman lands at Gannett

Gannett Co., publisher of USA Today, has tapped Joanne Lipman, former editor in chief of Conde Nast Portfolio, as its first chief content officer, writes Jessica Toonkel of Reuters.

Toonkel writes, “In her new role, Lipman will work to enable more collaboration among USA Today Network’s 3,000 journalists, she told Reuters in an interview Saturday.

“‘Great ideas can bubble up from anywhere within this network,’ she said. ‘It is really about taking what has been 92 individual papers…and building it into this nationwide news organization.’

“As one of her first priorities, Lipman is going to focus on digital, video and social media initiatives she said.

“Most recently, Lipman has been working with Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, consulting news organizations on using digital technology, like video and social media, to tell stories.

“Before that she was the founding editor in chief of Conde Nast Portfolio, a monthly business magazine, and Portfolio.com. She spent most of her career as an editor at The Wall Street Journal.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.