Jane Friedman, President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins
Publishers Worldwide, today announced she is stepping down after 10
years at the helm of one of the world’s
largest English-language publishers.
"My 10 years at HarperCollins have been far
and away the most rewarding of my career and so it was not easy to make
the decision to step down,” commented Ms.
Friedman. "It has been a great privilege to
develop and lead the best and brightest team in the world of publishing
as we created and implemented innovative programs which placed
HarperCollins at the forefront of the 21st Century publishing world. We
have expanded opportunities for our authors to connect with our readers
across many different mediums, while also encouraging a new generation
to get excited about reading.
"During the past decade, we have enjoyed
tremendous success while expanding our brand on-line and around the
world. Our accomplishments include: more than doubling the company’s
profits over the past ten years; launching the Publishing+ program that
has made HarperCollins an industry leader in the world of digital
publishing; our authors whose excellence was recently recognized with
the awarding of two Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature
in recent months; a company record 25 books on the New York Times
best-seller list just last week; and expansion to new markets around the
world including India and China.
"I am extremely pleased to be succeeded by
Brian Murray, an incredibly talented individual and executive, and a
true lover of books, who is the perfect person to lead our team to
continued success in the future. I wish Brian and the entire team at
HarperCollins the best of luck.” "Jane has been a terrific leader who succeeded
in attracting some of the world’s most
brilliant authors while, at the same time, delivering record breaking
profits,” Said Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and
Chief Executive of News Corporation. "We are
enormously grateful for her contributions over the past 10 years and
understand her desire to seek new challenges at this point in her
career. I have enjoyed working with her immensely and will miss her. We
wish her much success.”
Ms. Friedman joined HarperCollins in November 1997, overseeing
HarperCollins worldwide book publishing including operations in the
U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and India. Under her
leadership, the company achieved record revenues as well as countless
publishing honors.
Previously, she was Executive Vice President of Random House, Inc.,
Executive Vice President of the Knopf Publishing Group, Publisher of
Vintage Books and Founder and President of Random House Audio Publishing.
Ms. Friedman is Vice-Chair of the Entertainment, Media and
Communications Division of the UJA. She serves on the board of the
Association of American Publishers, Literacy Partners, Yale University
Press, and Poets & Writers, Inc. She is also a member of the American
Advisory Committee of the Jerusalem International Book Fair, the
Advisory Committee to the MFA program in creative writing at The New
School and The Committee of 200.
About HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins, one of the largest English-language publishers in the
world, is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS,
NWSLV). Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups
around the world including the HarperCollins General Books Group,
HarperCollins Children’s Books Group,
Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins
Australia/New Zealand and HarperCollins India. HarperCollins is a
broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction,
business books, children's books, cookbooks, mystery, romance,
reference, religious and spiritual books. With nearly 200 years of
history HarperCollins has published some of the world’s
foremost authors and has won numerous awards including the Nobel Prize,
the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, the Newbery Medal and the
Caldecott. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological
advancement HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content
and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its
authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business
opportunities. You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com.
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