People
Summary
People (original name People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on Adweek's "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.The magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest stories. People's editors claim to refrain from printing pure celebrity gossip, enough so to lead celebrity publicists to propose exclusives to the magazine, evidence of what one staffer calls a "publicist-friendly strategy."People has a website, http://www.people.com, which focuses exclusively on celebrity news.
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Fashion Magazines See Little Newsstand Love in March
Back in January, when most of the major fashion and beauty titles reported ad page increases for their key March issues, the industry was looking forward to a sunny spring. Unfortunately, everything isn’t coming up roses: March newsstand sales aren’t matching up to the magazines’ strong ad numbers, with many big titles declining more than 20 percent versus a year earlier, according to publisher-reported numbers in the Audit Bureau of Circulations' Rapid Report.
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Self Editor Lucy Danziger Voted President of ASME
Self editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger has been elected president of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), succeeding People managing editor Larry Hackett, who served as president for the past two years.
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Top Mags on Twitter Skip Engagement
What do The New Yorker, People Magazine, Rolling Stone, Health Magazine and National Geographic have in common? Each magazine has eclipsed 1 million followers on Twitter. While numbers aren’t as important — anyone can buy followers. . .
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Beyoncé's earth mother image shows fake authenticity at work | Bim Adewunmi
The 'natural beauty' Beyoncé has taken to Twitter and Tumblr to show us how normal she looks, but that's no bad thing.
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Gone “Magazine” Fishin’ with Ned Desmond, President and Founder of GoSPORTn, GoFISHn and GoHUNTn. The Mr. Magazine™ Interview with the former President of Time Inc. Interactive on His Entrepreneurial New Ventures in the Digital World.
Before he founded GoSPORTn Inc. and hooked us with “The Year in Fishing” via GoFISHn’s new iPad magazine app, Ned Desmond was the head of Time Inc. Interactive, and also served as TIME magazine’s bureau chief in both Tokyo (’92-’96) and New Delhi (’88-’91), while wearing the hats of writer and researcher before that.
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‘People’s’ William Levy ‘Source’ Is ‘People En Español’
The Cuban-born actor-dancer is not the first People en Español cover (October 2011) to migrate to the flagship (April 23, 2012), but past examples Ricky Martin and Shakira. . .
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The Media Equation: The Polarization of a Shooting
Trayvon Martin’s death has gripped social media and sent groups searching for the facts that fit their opinion.
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Geoffrey Dunn: Game Change You Can Believe In? You Betcha!
"[McCain] knows in his gut that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with. . . He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk; he knows that.
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People Magazine Announces Commemorative Book, Remembering Whitney
(Press Release) NEW YORK, February 22, 2012— People magazine, the world’s most popular celebrity weekly, announces the release of the commemorative book Remembering Whitney, 1963-2012, a tribute to the legendary singer and actress,. . .
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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 24, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Obama's privacy policy means business as usual for web companies (ReadWriteWeb) 2. Twitter's co-founder says spending too much time on the site is 'unhealthy' (Guardian) 3. Yahoo, Hulu and other tech firms pose another challenge to traditional TV (PaidContent) 4.
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