April Franzino is the Beauty Director at Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, and Prevention magazines at Hearst Magazines. She produces and oversees each book’s beauty editorial content, including pitching, reporting, writing, editing, and market work, culminating with yearly Beauty Awards specials, and also contributes original beauty content to Goodhousekeeping.com. April represents the brands on television, radio, industry panels, and online, having appeared on The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, Good Morning America, The View, CNBC, NBC New York Live, PIX11 News, and Today.com. She is also a host of the podcast Beauty Is Your Business.
April has held positions as the Beauty Director of Redbook, Beauty Editor at SELF, Associate Beauty Editor at Fitness, Assistant Beauty Editor at Good Housekeeping, and as a Beauty Freelancer at People StyleWatch.
Franzino received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University's journalism school, during which time she logged internships at Glamour, Allure, Good Housekeeping, Lucky, and Jane. When not happily engrossed in all things beauty, April can be found with the people she loves, reading, spending time outdoors, traveling, cooking, seeking out great food, and listening to music—especially live. She is based in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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