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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
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...
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Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
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.
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
"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]
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
MONTREAL, CANADA (MARKET WIRE) Quebecor World Inc. (TSX: IQW) today announced it has reached a new multi-year agreement with Wenner Media to print its three magazine titles-Rolling Stone, US Weekly and Men's Journal. Under the new agreement Quebecor World will increase its volume with Wenner Media by approximately 10% as the exclusive printer for Rolling Stone and Men's Journal and will print more...
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Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
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,...
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Line Out (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
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...
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Idolator (Free subscription) | 12/18/2007
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 ]
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
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...
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The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
From an article in Mediaweek (via Web Weekend Toronto): Keith Blanchard, onetime editor of Maxim who worked on the sites of Wenner Media’s Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal, sees print brands struggling to be responsible and authentic at...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2007
Business Week's John Fine interviews Jann Wenner about everything from the profitability of Wenner Media (''just three magazines ......
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Mediabuyerplanner (Free subscription) | 10/29/2007
Wenner Media and Bauer Publishing have joined the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Rapid Report. Wenner’s participation will begin immediately; Bauer’s will take effect in January, writes Mediaweek. The...
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Jossip (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Despite Wenner Media communications chief Mark Neschis assuring us there “is absolutely no truth to” the rumors we heard about a special relationship between Us Weekly and Intermix, a source inside the fashion company confirms to us that select editors at the magazine do, in fact, enjoy a discount. Among them: Editor-in-chief Janice Min, [...]
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
Will no one step forward to edit Wenner Media's Men's Journal? The gig pays $300,000, but, of course, it also includes dealing with Jann Wenner. "The problem with the job," a source tells Keith...
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Jossip (Free subscription) | 09/18/2007
Just when you think things couldn't get worse for the Wenner Media tabloid, this.
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Jossip (Free subscription) | 09/17/2007
Jann Wenner, Janice Min, Ken Baker, and Wenner Media proper are being hit with a $55 million lawsuit today filed by former Us Weekly staffer Jill Ishkanian, we’ve learned. In court papers being filed now-ish, Ishkanian – who left the magazine and went on to form the paparazzi agency Sunset Photo and News – alleges her [...]
