Joanna Coles

Joanna Louise Coles (born 20 April 1962) is the chief creative and content officer for The Daily Beast. She was chief content officer for Hearst Magazines from 2016 to 2018. Coles started her career at The Spectator and moved to the US in 1997 to become bureau chief of The Guardian, later joining The Times. In 2006, she joined Hearst as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine, then Cosmopolitan (2012–2016), before becoming the company's chief content officer in 2016. Coles' foray into television began with the Style Network's Running in Heels, which she co-created and executive produced; she was a mentor on Lifetime's Project Runway: All-Stars and executive produced the E! reality series So Cosmo, in which she also appeared on camera. She is an executive producer for The Bold Type, a scripted series airing on Freeform (formerly known as ABC Family) and Hulu. She is on the boards of Snap, the parent company of Snapchat; Sonos, an American audio equipment manufacturer; Density Software (density.io), which provides AI-powered occupancy analytics for physical spaces; and the clean beauty company Blue Mistral. She is the author of Love Rules, published by HarperCollins; the book was optioned for TV by ABC Signature and FX. In 2019, she signed a first-look deal with ABC Studios.