Career
Rowe worked for a succession of magazines: 19, Petticoat, Club, Look Now and Woman"s World, before becoming Assistant Editor of The Sun, then editor of "Sunday", the News of the World"s magazine. In 1986 Rowe became editor of Woman"s Own, then left to become editor of television Times. Rowe edited the Sunday Mirror from 1991 to 1992, then moved to edit The People.
In 1995 she became managing director of both newspapers, and in 1997 she returned to editing the Sunday Mirror for a year.
After this she served as the Director of Communications for the National Magazine Company, and later was the content director of Yava until 2001. She was a panelist on the first series of Loose Women in 1999.