Florida A&M alumnae Mitzi Miller is the new top editor of JET Magazine. Miller is an author (The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life and The Vow) and former associate editor at Jane and entertainment editor at Honey Magazine.Miller is expected to engineer a redesign of the African American weekly magazine, which has experienced declining circulation over the past few years. Jet's current circulation of 703,944 is 25% less than its 944,073 average of a decade ago.
Miller's challenge will be to institute change while adhering to the legacy of Jet and that of the late JPC founder (1918-2005) John H. Johnson. Perhaps the magazine's finest moment came in September 1955 when it published photographs of the the mutilated body of 14-year-old Emmett Till that showed the world the brutality of his murder in Mississippi.
In addition to her work in print media Miller has also appeared as a culture critic for VH1, BET and the Food Network.