MIRA LOWE, the former editor-in-chief of JET magazine, is a highly respected leader in executive management, media and diversity.
An award-winning editor, media contributor and public speaker, Lowe focuses on leadership, professional development and personal branding as a principal of Aim High Media, a communications company in Chicago. She also lectures at the Loyola University School of Communication and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Lowe has been featured on several national and local radio and television talk shows and websites, including the “Warren Ballentine Show,” “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” MSNBC, the Grio.com, BlackAmericaWeb.com, Target Market News, PRWeek.com and Richard Prince’s Journal-isms. She has also been profiled or quoted in numerous national and regional publications such as Crain’s Business, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star, Folio magazine and Columbia Journalism Review.
In 2009, Lowe became the first woman to helm JET, the No. 1 African-American newsweekly, with more than 7 million readers, founded in 1951 by Johnson Publishing Co. in Chicago.
Lowe transformed the magazine during her tenure as editor-in-chief. She oversaw a major redesign aimed at better targeting a multigenerational audience. She expanded the publication’s appeal and exposure by boosting its entertainment and political coverage, recruiting exciting new writers and thought leaders from around the country. She spearheaded the creation of myjet247.com, JET’s dynamic digital platform, to expand the iconic brand to a broader base. And she led JET’s extensive tribute to music icon Michael Jackson after his death in 2009; the commemorative issue was the highest-selling JET ever.
Lowe joined Johnson Publishing in 2007 as assistant managing editor for JET and Ebony magazines. She served as the newsroom point-person on Election Night when Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, and as part of the editorial team covering his historic inauguration in Washington, helping to produce a top-selling keepsake edition.
Before moving to Chicago, Lowe worked her way through the editing ranks at Newsday, a New York daily newspaper, for nearly 20 years. Her last position at Newsday was associate editor for recruitment; her responsibilities included recruitment and hiring, staff development and training, directing internship programs and producing an annual job conference.
Lowe also led the newspaper’s Minority Editorial Training Program (METPRO), which trained journalists of color interested in pursuing an editing career, and oversaw LI Life, a Sunday lifestyle section, bringing fresh inspiration to one of the paper’s most popular features. Lowe joined Newsday in 1989 as a copy editor and over the years became a supervisory editor on the news, business and features desks. In 1999, she earned the publisher’s award for editing.
She has also taught journalism at Columbia University and York College in New York, and lectured on diversity and recruitment issues at various colleges and conferences.
A longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Lowe copyedited the acclaimed “Committed to the Cause: Salute to NABJ’s Presidents,” a book detailing the association’s first 25 years; served as chairwoman of its national special honors, awards contest and 30th Anniversary committees; and helped lead the committee that created “NABJ Style,” the association’s journalism stylebook centered on coverage of the black community. She is also a member of the Association for Women Journalists (AWJ), Online News Association (ONA) and Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS).
Lowe is a former vice president for Dreams Into Action, a nationally recognized nonprofit mentoring group for teenage girls in New York. She is also a board member, adviser or volunteer for other nonprofits serving women and youth.
The Brooklyn, N.Y., native graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor’s degree in television and radio and from Columbia with a master’s degree in journalism.
Lowe is co-author of Heart and Soul: A Marriage of Love, Faith and Journalism monograph, published in 2007 by the World Journalism Institute.
An award-winning editor, media contributor and public speaker, Lowe focuses on leadership, professional development and personal branding as a principal of Aim High Media, a communications company in Chicago. She also lectures at the Loyola University School of Communication and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Lowe has been featured on several national and local radio and television talk shows and websites, including the “Warren Ballentine Show,” “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” MSNBC, the Grio.com, BlackAmericaWeb.com, Target Market News, PRWeek.com and Richard Prince’s Journal-isms. She has also been profiled or quoted in numerous national and regional publications such as Crain’s Business, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star, Folio magazine and Columbia Journalism Review.
In 2009, Lowe became the first woman to helm JET, the No. 1 African-American newsweekly, with more than 7 million readers, founded in 1951 by Johnson Publishing Co. in Chicago.
Lowe transformed the magazine during her tenure as editor-in-chief. She oversaw a major redesign aimed at better targeting a multigenerational audience. She expanded the publication’s appeal and exposure by boosting its entertainment and political coverage, recruiting exciting new writers and thought leaders from around the country. She spearheaded the creation of myjet247.com, JET’s dynamic digital platform, to expand the iconic brand to a broader base. And she led JET’s extensive tribute to music icon Michael Jackson after his death in 2009; the commemorative issue was the highest-selling JET ever.
Lowe joined Johnson Publishing in 2007 as assistant managing editor for JET and Ebony magazines. She served as the newsroom point-person on Election Night when Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, and as part of the editorial team covering his historic inauguration in Washington, helping to produce a top-selling keepsake edition.
Before moving to Chicago, Lowe worked her way through the editing ranks at Newsday, a New York daily newspaper, for nearly 20 years. Her last position at Newsday was associate editor for recruitment; her responsibilities included recruitment and hiring, staff development and training, directing internship programs and producing an annual job conference.
Lowe also led the newspaper’s Minority Editorial Training Program (METPRO), which trained journalists of color interested in pursuing an editing career, and oversaw LI Life, a Sunday lifestyle section, bringing fresh inspiration to one of the paper’s most popular features. Lowe joined Newsday in 1989 as a copy editor and over the years became a supervisory editor on the news, business and features desks. In 1999, she earned the publisher’s award for editing.
She has also taught journalism at Columbia University and York College in New York, and lectured on diversity and recruitment issues at various colleges and conferences.
A longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Lowe copyedited the acclaimed “Committed to the Cause: Salute to NABJ’s Presidents,” a book detailing the association’s first 25 years; served as chairwoman of its national special honors, awards contest and 30th Anniversary committees; and helped lead the committee that created “NABJ Style,” the association’s journalism stylebook centered on coverage of the black community. She is also a member of the Association for Women Journalists (AWJ), Online News Association (ONA) and Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS).
Lowe is a former vice president for Dreams Into Action, a nationally recognized nonprofit mentoring group for teenage girls in New York. She is also a board member, adviser or volunteer for other nonprofits serving women and youth.
The Brooklyn, N.Y., native graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor’s degree in television and radio and from Columbia with a master’s degree in journalism.
Lowe is co-author of Heart and Soul: A Marriage of Love, Faith and Journalism monograph, published in 2007 by the World Journalism Institute.