Joycelyn Winnecke
VP/Associate Editor
My Role
As Vice President and Associate Editor at the Chicago Tribune, Joycelyn works on new business ideas for media and journalism, directing strategic initiatives to increase audience and profitability through innovation, organizational design and content development across all platforms. Trib Nation, a reader engagement program that includes a broad menu of live programming, is among her projects. She also works across Tribune Co. properties, facilitating collaboration among newsrooms and business units.
My Biography
Joycelyn previously worked as Associate Managing Editor for national news at the Chicago Tribune, and before that was Managing Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
She began her journalism career at age 16, writing obituaries and taking high school basketball scores at my hometown newspaper in Evansville, Ind. That was followed by work as a reporter and editor in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C. For 10 years, she wrote a widely distributed column on food and cooking for Scripps Howard News Service.
Joycelyn has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Indiana and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her 11-year-old daughter.
She began her journalism career at age 16, writing obituaries and taking high school basketball scores at my hometown newspaper in Evansville, Ind. That was followed by work as a reporter and editor in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C. For 10 years, she wrote a widely distributed column on food and cooking for Scripps Howard News Service.
Joycelyn has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Indiana and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her 11-year-old daughter.