Jane Friedman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, one of the world's leading English-language publishers and a subsidiary of News Corporation. She 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. Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ...

Since joining HarperCollins, Friedman has directed the company to nine years of continuous growth, record-breaking profits and the industry's highest profit margins. Over the course of her career she has embraced innovation at every turn. Under Friedman's leadership HarperCollins launched Publishing+, a way to organically grow the business and create a truly global publishing company. Most recently, Friedman's decision to create a global digital warehouse, including digital files of its core backlist and future books, has positioned the company as a leader in the industry and is propelling HarperCollins into the 21st century of publishing.

Friedman, who earned a B.A. degree in English from New York University in 1967, came to HarperCollins from Random House, where 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. New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. ...

She is a 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. The United Jewish Communities (UJC) is an American Jewish umbrella organization representing 155 Jewish federations and 400 independent Jewish communities across North America. ... The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is the largest trade association of publishing companies in the United States. ... Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908. ... The New School, previously known as New School University, is an institution of higher learning in New York City. ...

Friedman has earned a myriad of awards and has been recognized by numerous international, national, and local organizations and publications. In addition to being named one of Fast Company's Fast 50, she was recently featured in New York magazine's The Influentials—charting the people "whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York." She has also been chosen by the New York Post as one of New York's 50 Most Powerful Women and named one of New York's 100 Most Influential Business Leaders by Crain's New York Business. In addition, she was named one of America's 100 Most Important Women by Ladies' Home Journal. Entertainment Weekly recognized her as one of the 101 Most Powerful People in Entertainment for several years running. Additionally, Friedman was included on Vanity Fair's list of 200 Women Legends, Leaders and Trailblazers. Fast Company magazine is a full-color monthly magazine that reports on the technology industry. ... New York magazine is a weekly magazine, founded in 1968, concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. ... The New York Post is one of the oldest newspapers published in the United States. ... A cover of Ladies Home Journal from 1906 Ladies Home Journal was first published February 16, 1883 as a womens supplement to the Tribune and Farmer. ... June 17, 2005 cover of Entertainment Weekly, featuring actor Tom Cruise Entertainment Weekly is a magazine published by Time Warner in the United States which is dedicated to the world of celebrity and popular culture. ... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ...