Deidre Depke was named a NEWSWEEK assistant managing editor in October 2006 and continues to oversee and manage the editorial operation of Newsweek.com and its staff of editors and producers. She also works closely with Newsweek's sales and marketing teams to develop advertising and promotion strategies for both the magazine and for Newsweek.com.

Under Depke's leadership, Newsweek.com has become the Web's most popular newsweekly site and the third largest magazine Web site on the Internet. NEWSWEEK.com has won numerous awards, including Editor & Publisher's "EPpy" award for best newsmagazine Web site, MIN's "Best of the Web Award" for Best National Magazine-Affiliated Web Site, multiple Clarion awards from Women in Communications, two New York Press Club Awards and two National Press Club Awards. In 2006, Newsweek.com was honored with a nomination for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online.

Depke came to Newsweek.com in 2000 as Senior Editor, and helped relaunch Newsweek.com as part of an alliance between The Washington Post Company, Newsweek, NBC and MSNBC. She continues to be responsible for the weekly editorial coordination between Newsweek's writers and editors and the staffs at NBC News operations.

Depke had been Newsweek's foreign editor from February 1997 to December 1999. During that time, Newsweek won an Ed Cunningham Memorial Award from the Overseas Press Club for its coverage of the Hong Kong handover (1998). Newsweek was also cited by major media organizations for its coverage of life for women in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime and for its story about African-American expatriates in Asia, among others.

Before Newsweek, Depke served as BusinessWeek's senior editor for news, editing the magazine's "News: Analysis and Commentary" from 1993 to 1997.

A 1983 graduate of Syracuse University with a B.A. in both Journalism and Political Science, Depke was also awarded the Sigma Delta Chi and Quill in Scroll scholarships.

She currently lives in New York City.