Elizabeth Fenner, the assistant managing editor at Money magazine, has been named editor in chief of Chicago magazine, a Chicago Tribune publication.
Fenner grew up in the Chicago area but has spent most of her career at Time Inc. in New York City. Since 2008 she has been assistant managing editor at Money, where she managed some of the brand’s most important cover franchises and helped create an award-winning retirement channel on CNNMoney.com. From 2005 to 2007 she was the executive editor of Women’s Health, one of the most successful magazine launches of the past decade.
“I’m thrilled to be returning to Chicago to lead the editorial team,” Fenner said in a statement. “I look forward to helping make Chicago more indispensable to readers than ever.”
Prior to Women’s Health, Fenner was an assistant managing editor at Fortune and a senior editor at People, where she edited fashion and food stories, among others. In 2011, she won the Best Home & Design Feature Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
She has acted as a judge for the National Magazine Awards and for the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Fenner holds a B.A. in classics from the University of Notre Dame.
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