Jeannie Park

Jeannie Park became executive editor of People Magazine in April 2002. People, one of the most popular magazines in the world, has a paid circulation of 3.7 million, and is read by more than 36 million people each week.

Park moved to the weekly from the same position at sister publication In Style, where she had been since January 1999.

Park has worked for five Time Inc. publications, and this is her second stint at People. She began her career in 1985 as a reporter-researcher for Time, and moved to People as a staff writer in 1989. Over the next three years she was promoted to senior writer, and then associate editor. In 1991, she spent several months in Sydney on the team producing test issues of an Australian edition of the magazine, Who Weekly, which was launched the following year.

She moved to Entertainment Weekly in 1992 as senior editor of the television section, and in 1993 edited the publication’s first book, The Entertainment Weekly Seinfeld Companion. She served as EW’s assistant managing editor from 1995 until her appointment four years later to executive editor at In Style.

She is the founding president of the Asian American Journalists Association’s New York chapter, which is now the largest in the country, and she has been honored by numerous organizations for her work in the area of diversity. She is a founding member of A3, Time Inc.’s year-old Asian American employee affinity group.

Park graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in biochemistry in 1983. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.