Jacqueline Leo

Jacqueline Leo is a magazine editor and media producer.

Career

Jacqueline Leo is President and Editor in Chief of The Fiscal Times, a news website launched in February 2010.

After spending years in the magazine and newspaper business, Ms. Leo founded and launched Child (magazine) in 1986. A year later, The New York Times Magazine Group acquired the magazine and appointed her Editor-in-Chief of Family Circle magazine. Under her leadership, an article on toxic waste dumping won the 1990 National Magazine Award for Public Interest, the first time that a woman’s magazine ever received the honor. She later became Editorial Director of The New York Times Women’s Magazine Group, where she launched Fitness magazine and a variety of special interest publications.

Since then, Ms. Leo worked in a variety of media: She was Vice President of Editorial Operations, Sales and Marketing for Meredith Interactive where she oversaw the digital development of Better Homes and Gardens (magazine) and Ladies' Home Journal; she was Senior Producer and Editorial Director for ABC News’ Good Morning America; and served as Editorial Director for Consumer Reports magazine and their varied media products.