Black, Cathie

CATHIE BLACK heads Hearst Magazines, a division of Hearst Corporation. She manages the financial performance and development of some of the industry's best-known magazines, including "Cosmopolitan,"" Esquire,"" Good Housekeeping,"" Harper's Bazaar,"" "and" O,"" the Oprah Magazine," Black made publishing history in 1979 as the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine, New York, and she is widely credited for the success of "USA Today," where for eight years, starting in 1983, she was first president, then publisher. Before joining Hearst, she also served five years as president and C...