Leslie Yazel

Programming Strategy Editor • The Wall Street Journal
Last edited December 14, 2020

Leslie Yazel was most recently Editor in Chief of Real Simple magazine, where she grew revenue, increasing millennial audience, the social following, and newsstand sales. This is her second tour at the WSJ, where she was previously Personal Journal Deputy Editor. Before that she edited Pulitzer-winning critics at The Washington Post. She began her career at her hometown paper, The Des Moines Register, reporting on floods, fires, and murder trials.


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