Jezebel (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Yay, more celebrity-centered junk filling up the newsstands: Wenner Media, which publishes Us Weekly and Rolling Stone, has announced that it will be creating a celebrity fashion spinoff quarterly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
WhyFame (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Bauer has Life & Style. Time Inc.'s People has People StyleWatch. And soon Wenner Media's Us Weekly will have its own fashion spin-off. Despite evidence the faltering economy caused celebrity weeklies' readership to plateau, Jann Wenner is betting a fashion quarterly, launching in the spring, is just what American women want. Inarguably, the... [ More on WhyFame.com ]
Advertising Age - MediaWorks (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Wenner Media has named Will Schenck to take over as publisher of Rolling Stone, where ad pages have been falling steadily. Mr. Schenck, who had been publisher of Men's Journal since October 2005, succeeds Ray Chelstowski as publisher at Rolling Stone.
Idolator (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Kent Brownridge, the former Wenner Media honcho who came out of retirement last year to become CEO and chairman of Blender publishers Alpha Media Group, stepped down from his CEO role yesterday, although he'll continue to stay on as chairman. He claimed that his reason for stepping down was the combination of 100-hour workweeks and a new wife, although WWD notes that Blender 's year-to-date ad pages...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
With the Oct. 30 issue, which will go on sale Oct. 17, Rolling Stone, published by Wenner Media, will adopt the standard size used by all but a few magazines. In an interview in his office, Jann Wenner, founder, publisher, editor and general guiding force behind the nation’s biggest music magazine, was characteristically brash about the change. Leaning back in his chair, one leg slung over the side...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
With the Oct. 30 issue, which will go on sale Oct. 17, Rolling Stone, published by Wenner Media, will adopt the standard size used by all but a few magazines.
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Wenner Breaks Off Us Weekly Sale Talk ( NYP ) It's shaping up to be the summer of no deals in the world of magazines. The biggest deal not getting done is Us Weekly , as Wenner Media owner Jann Wenner, who was said to be quietly testing the waters to sell the celebrity weekly for a blockbuster price of $750 million, has apparently broken...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Print publishers are clearly beleaguered as they rush to excite the younger generation about the virtues of newspapers and magazines, but Wenner Media's latest marketing effort may exhibit how difficult times truly are in this Internet age.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
"Sources inside Wenner Media, which publishes Us Weekly, said owner Jann Wenner 'is going nuts on the budgets' - prompting some longtime staffers to look for jobs elsewhere." [Post]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Quebecor World Inc. (TSX: IQW ) announces new multi-year agreement to print "Rolling Stone" and two other magazines published by Wenner Media in a new multi-year contract.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
One obvious advantage Barack Obama will wield over John McCain in the general election is the Celebrity Media, from Oprah and Ellen and Tyra on television to the supermarket weeklies like People and UsWeekly, a celebrity magazine published by Wenner Media (as in ultraliberal Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone fame.) The March 10 issue has an exclusive (softball) interview with Obama, and a photo spread...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
Looks like Canadian anarcha-core band Fucked Up are taking it, not to the streets, but to the courts. It's the people vs. the man, and this time "the people" are 186 of your favorite bands. Joined by Xiu Xiu, which the complaint describes as "often thematically dark, marked by non-narrative, evocative lyrics delivered in small fragments," the two groups have motioned for action, seconded that action,...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 19/12/2007
Daily Swarm reports today that Xiu Xiu and Fucked Up are leading a class action lawsuit against Wenner Media and RJ Reynolds for the stupid (not stupid-fresh) "Indie Universe" advertorial: Fucked Up vs. Rolling Stone. Fucked up vs. Camel cigarettes. It may be the first time those words have seen a vs. in the middle, but they're right there in print in a legal complaint filed this afternoon in Alameda...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 18/12/2007
Xiu Xiu and Fucked Up are leading the class-action suit against Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media and RJ Reynolds over that "Indie Rock Universe" pull-out from RS ' final 40th-anniversary issue. The suit is alleging "the unauthorized use of artists' names, unauthorized use of artist names for commercial advantage (right of publicity), and unfair business practices." [ Billboard.biz ]
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
Photo Illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images (santa), iStockphoto (suit) Last night saw loads of magazine parties: The blazered GQ staff boogied down at Passerby , Wenner Media rocked out at Madison in the meatpacking district, and W celebrated its continued existence at Death & Co. We didn't go to any of those, because we were New York 's own fiesta at the Cub Room . Unfortunately, we...
