Diane Salvatore is an award-winning, four-time Editor in Chief of national brands—including Prevention and the nonprofit Consumer Reports—as well as a content strategist across digital platforms, including at Dotdash Meredith. She also led digital product innovation at Lee Enterprises, the country’s fourth-largest chain of news sites, building from scratch a paid e-newsletter program, launching apps, and overseeing podcasting programming. She was also VP/Publisher of the Broadway Books imprint at Crown/Random House.
Salvatore’s focus and passion have always been on health, social issues, and solutions-oriented, mission-based journalism with calls-to-action for both individuals and policy-making bodies. Over her career, she specialized in coverage of women’s health, supplement regulation, RX drug overprescribing, recall policy, palliative care, nursing home reform, medical innovations, AIDS, food and water safety, nuclear power, war veterans, sexist judicial decisions, teen suicide prevention, handgun violence, drunk driving, car and driving safety, racial bias in car insurance, and more.
Salvatore has had the privilege of personally interviewing Presidents Clinton and Obama, creating events with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama, Senators Dick Durbin and John Kerry, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, and leading newscasters such as Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts. She was also Editor in Chief of Ladies’ Home Journal and YM and has held senior editorial roles at Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Redbook, and Marie Claire.
Salvatore’s work was twice nominated for prestigious American Society of Magazine Editors Awards, and she has won multiple awards, including Columbia University’s Athena Award for excellence in health journalism, multiple Folio Eddie Awards, a National Citizens’ Coalition Public Service Award, and the American College of Emergency Physicians Journalism of Excellence award. She has been a frequent guest on The Today Show and Good Morning America.
Salvatore has a BA from Penn State University and an MA from New York University.
