Belinda Luscombe

Belinda Luscombe (born in Sydney) is an Australian-born journalist. She is editor at large at TIME Magazine, and served as TIMEs arts editor 2003–2008, thus directing all of TIMEs cultural coverage. She joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1995 and became a senior editor in 1999. Cover stories she edited include "The Last Star Wars" (May 2005) and "Has TV Gone Too Far?" (March 2005). She has written cover stories on Sheryl Sandberg, marriage and pornography. She also was editor of the first U.S. issue of TIME Style & Design (February 2003). Since 2010, she has also conducted most of the interviews for Time's 10 Questions page, which runs in the magazine and also on video.
She has written humorous essays on interfacial marriage, how Warren Buffett should fix bras and revoking Larry King's marriage license. In 2010, she won The Council on Contemporary Families Media Award for Print coverage of Family Issues.
She holds a B.A. in English Literature and a Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney, and began her journalism career at the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. She has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Mademoiselle, the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Vogue and Vogue Australia, Who Weekly (Australia), Arena (UK), and the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and has contributed humorous essays to several books.