{{Short description|British magazine editor}} {{Multiple issues| {{unreliable sources|date=February 2012}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2012}} }}

'''Lisa Lorraine Byrne''' (born 12 April 1970, Shrewsbury)<ref>[http://capitalpictures.photoshelter.com/image/I00004EATFBlFQ1c 40th birthday]</ref><ref>[http://www.debretts.co.uk/people/biographies/browse/b/25274/Lisa+BYRNE.aspx Debretts]</ref> was the Editor-in-Chief of the UK edition of the worldwide celebrity [[gossip magazine]], ''[[OK!]]''.

==Career== She began her career as the Editor of the ''Northallerton, Thirsk and Bedale Times'' in 1994 (the newspaper closed in 2008<ref>{{cite web |title=Newspaper closures: Stop press |date=2009-08-25 |website=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901040255/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/aug/25/local-newspaper-closures |archive-date=2022-09-01 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/aug/25/local-newspaper-closures}}</ref>).

In 1995 she moved to London and became a freelance writer for the ''[[Mail on Sunday]]'', ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'', and the ''[[Sunday People]]''.

===OK!=== From 1998 she was a features writer, then Senior Writer and Features Editor on ''OK!''. In 2002 she became the deputy editor. She became Editor of ''OK!'' in 2004. ''OK!'' magazine is part of Express Newspapers group, owned by [[Northern & Shell]] and is based at 10 ''[[Thames Street (London)|Lower Thames Street]]''.<ref>[http://www.ok.co.uk/contact OK! address]</ref>

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{{start box}} {{s-media}} {{succession box|title=Editor of ''[[OK!]]''|years=2004&ndash;2012|before=Nic McCarthy|after=Christian Guiltenane}} {{end box}}

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