User:Marie Sullivan/List of women publishers

There have been very few women magazine publishers. Frances Lear, publisher of Lear's Magazine (no longer in print), and Quarante Magazine, "Magazine for the woman who has arrived" published by Kathleen Katz are two women who achieved temporary success. Neither magazine is currently in print.

An article on both women publishers appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Monday, April 6, 1987, p. 31) by Cathy Trost. The article featured both publishers and addressed how they were building their respective publication empires.

Lear, who was the ex-wife of Norman Lear, the television producer, invested her divorce settlement but went through the millions quickly. Katz, who was on a shoestring budget, but had attracted well-known authors (U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, Frank Mankiewicz, and Martha Seger) and who had brought in magazine advisors (from Town & Country, Vogue and Changing Times) continued to struggle until it closed.

Oprah Magazine is published by Oprah, the talk-show host, and will likely succeed since it has limitless financial support.