Lisa Sharkey

Lisa Sharkey is the Senior Vice President and Director of Creative Development for HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, one of the world's leading English-language publishers and a subsidiary of News Corporation. She joined the company in March 2007 after more than two decades in television.[1][2]

Career

Publishing

As the Director of Creative Development at HarperCollins, Sharkey has overseen the acquisition of the following books:

Television

From 2000 to 2005 Sharkey was Senior Producer for ABC's Good Morning America where she oversaw GMA's on-air contributors and produced the second hour of the show. She ran the GMA medical unit, the financial news unit, headed up the consumer investigative team, the parenting unit, the home improvement and safety areas, and created and implemented multiple magazine partnerships. Sharkey also senior produced GMA's Weddings as well as many other sweeps specials and big television events for the show.

Prior to working at GMA, Lisa was a Senior Producer at Inside Edition where she oversaw coverage of stories such as the exclusives with Paula Jones and Mary Kay Letourneau. Sharkey has also written for news programs at CBS News, line produced and senior produced the news at WCBS, WNYW, WPIX,and KETC.

Lisa has been honored by a Peabody Award and a DuPont Award for her work at ABC covering the events surrounding September 11.[47] She has also written for Redbook and Child magazines.

A two-time Emmy Award winner and ten-time Emmy nominee, Sharkey was the President of Al Roker Entertainment in New York City from 2005 to 2007.[48] Projects there included: Executive Producer: "Profiles in Courage: A Kennedy Legacy" for NBC, Executive Producer: "The Quill Book Awards" 2005, 2006 for NBC, Executive Producer: "Al Roker Investigates: Innocence for Sale" and "Al Roker Investigates Meth, Murder and Madness" for Court TV as well as "Honor Deferred" for the History Channel, "Uncovered: The Hidden Lives of Miss USA" for E!, and "Childhood Obesity: The Danger Zone" which aired on The Food Network.

On May 3, 2012 it was announced that the best selling book Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony by Jeff Ashton, which Sharkey acquired, will be made into a Lifetime movie starring Rob Lowe and produced by Fox Television Studios.[49]

Personal life

Lisa and her husband Paul Gleicher, architect and President of Gleicher Design Group live in one of the country's first total Eco Houses, a "green" brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side,[50] where they reside with their three children. Lisa and Paul have written a book on green homes called Dreaming Green: Eco Fabulous Homes Designed to Inspire which was published in November 2008 by Clarkson Potter.[51] Lisa's son Doug Gleicher is one of the members of the music group Upper West. Her sister Tina Sharkey is an online media executive and the former chairman and global president of BabyCenter. Lisa Sharkey holds a degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

References

  1. Learmonth, Michael (19 March 2007). "HarperCollins books Sharkey". Variety.
  2. http://www.harpercollins.com/footer/release.aspx?id=533&b=&year=2007
  3. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/business/megyn-kelly-of-fox-news-signs-book-deal.html?_r=0
  4. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062444288/conviction
  5. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062388889/raising-ryland
  6. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062333810/ashleys-war
  7. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/derek-houghs-taking-lead-dwts-pro-reveals-life/story?id=24839872
  8. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/amy-purdy-opens-death-experience-book/story?id=28043217
  9. http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/24633/Jorge_Cruise/index.aspx
  10. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062362162/happy-gut
  11. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062382221/bang-bang
  12. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/019992c391634908bcf660bca97973d1/designer-norma-kamali-working-health-and-beauty-book
  13. http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062363442/napkin-notes
  14. http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062334435/the-greek-diet
  15. http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062323910/around-the-table
  16. http://harpercollins.com/books/Organic-Avenue-Denise-Mari/?isbn=9780062202215
  17. http://harpercollins.com/books/Hold-Me-Contempt-Wendy-Williams/?isbn=9780062268419
  18. http://harpercollins.com/books/Unbreak-My-Heart-Toni-Braxton/?isbn=9780062293282
  19. http://harpercollins.com/books/Ted-Williams-My-Father-Claudia-Williams/?isbn=9780062259561
  20. http://harpercollins.com/books/Own-Tabatha-Coffey/?isbn=9780062251008
  21. http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Etched-Sand-Regina-Calcaterra/?isbn=9780062218834
  22. http://jetsetera.net/2013/05/09/book-ask-wendy-by-wendy-williams/
  23. Anderson, Jessica (30 April 2013). "Gabby Douglas Opens Up On Faith, Family And Finding Time To Sleep, In New Book". Huffington Post.
  24. http://zondervan.com/news/zondervan-acquires-two-books-us-olympic-gold-medalist-gabby-douglas. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  25. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20627374,00.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/niece-of-church-of-scientology-leader-miscavige-plans-tell-all-book-with-strange-details/2012/09/24/d31ec69a-06a4-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. http://omg.yahoo.com/news/real-housewife-caroline-manzo-book-deal-064124371.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  28. http://www.harpercollins.com/footer/release.aspx?id=1001&b=&year=2012
  29. Rolling Stone (5 June 2012). "Cissy Houston Writing Memoir on Daughter Whitney". Rolling Stone.
  30. http://www.harpercollins.com/footer/release.aspx?id=992&b=&year=2012
  31. Continuous Sports Desk (26 June 2012). "Eric LeGrand signs two-book deal with HarperCollins Publishing". The Star-Ledger.
  32. Continuous Sports Desk (26 June 2012). "Eric LeGrand signs two-book deal with HarperCollins Publishing". The Star-Ledger.
  33. http://www.welovesoaps.net/2011/07/12july2011d.html
  34. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrk-VZyuyXR7HUync5zgp9vrLDEg?docId=dec5fdb0c3e54b5b9f63921097ace961
  35. Lewis, Andy (30 August 2011). "Casey Anthony Prosecutor's Book Shoots to No. 1, Publisher Promises 'Explosive' Details". The Hollywood Reporter.
  36. Ng, Philiana (3 May 2012). "Rob Lowe to Star in Lifetime's Casey Anthony Telepic". The Hollywood Reporter.
  37. Bosman, Julie (20 May 2011). "Greg Allman Joins the Aging-Rocker Memoir Brigade". The New York Times.
  38. Heyman, Jessie (28 July 2011). "The Kardashians Announce New Book". Huffington Post.
  39. http://youritlist.com/2011/05/it-books-to-publish-new-memoir-by-regis-philbin/
  40. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/11/tebows-book-debuts-at-no-6-on-bestseller-list/
  41. Chaney, Jen (8 April 2011). "Susan Lucci's memoir, ‘All My Life'". The Washington Post.
  42. "Sammy Hagar fills in 'Red' with his colorful life story". USA Today. 16 March 2011.
  43. Memmott, Carol (15 March 2011). "'Dressmaker': The next big Afghanistan book?". USA Today.
  44. Schlesinger, Fay (7 October 2010). "Charles, defender of nature: Prince uses book to pledge a duty to the environment". Daily Mail (London).
  45. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1615706/lauren-conrads-la-candy-best-seller.jhtml
  46. Lisa Pulitzer
  47. "Lisa Sharkey: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  48. http://www.alrokerproductions.com/newsitem.cfm?NEWSID=19
  49. Levine, Stuart (3 May 2012). "Lowe cast as prosecutor in 'Casey Anthony' pic". Variety.
  50. http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/renovation/building-green-house-may06
  51. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&afsrc=1&ISBN=9780307395481&ourl=Dreaming-Green%2FLisa-Sharkey&itm=1

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