NEW YORK, July 21 (UPI) -- Us Weekly editor Janice Min is leaving the U.S. celebrity gossip magazine after seven years, in an amicable parting, the publication said. I decided it was time to try something else in my life, Min said in a memo to the staff Monday. There are no immediate plans, except to enjoy the month of August, take some tennis lessons, and maybe finally edit my wedding album, she...
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Rolling Stone magazine has severed its last tenuous link to San Francisco, the city where Jann Wenner co-founded the irreverent biweekly 42 years ago to cover the psychedelic rock scene and counterculture movement flourishing in the region. New York publisher Wenner Media will shutter its three-person office at 1700 Montgomery St., spokesman Mark Neschis said. It housed one Rolling Stone sales representative,...
One more reason for San Francisco to hate us: James Temple at SF Chronicle writes : New York publisher Wenner Media will shutter its three-person office at 1700 Montgomery St., spokesman Mark Neschis said. It housed one Rolling Stone sales representative, who will relocate to Los Angeles. The other two employees, a Men's Journal representative and an assistant, are being laid off. Bummer. New Career...
Just 42 years after the groundbreaking music magazine launched in San Francisco, Rolling Stone has severed its last physical tie to its birthplace. Wenner Media, its New York Publisher, has announced it will close its small office at 1700 Montgomery Street. A spokesman for the magazine said there was no longer enough business to justify a full-time office there.
Conceived in San Francisco 42 years ago, the publisher of Rolling Stone has decided to close its cozy SF office at 1700 Montgomery due to cutbacks. Founded by Jann Wenner way back when, this most recent snip to the ailing Wenner Media music mag ( Rolling Stone is down 21.6 percent in ad pages for 2009) is slight but significant. According to Portfolio , "a Wenner spokesman confirms the shutdown...
In an economy, where news papers and magazines find it hard to fetch adequate ad revenue, more and more incidents of ‘disguised ads’ are appearing. We have read about The Los Angeles Times before. Now, Wenner Media’s ‘Us Weekly’ shows us...
Country Living has a (relatively) new editor and a new look... Elizabeth Sulcer is leaving her job... A top lieutenant of Jann Wenner departed Wenner Media...
'It became such a regularity for me that I got tired of it,' Weezy tells Rolling Stone for an upcoming cover story. By Jayson Rodriguez Lil Wayne on the April 16, 2009 cover of <i>Rolling Stone</i> Photo: Wenner Media Lil Wayne spent years campaigning to be the "best rapper alive," dropping the reference endlessly throughout his recordings and freestyle rhymes. Now, as he puts...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
Today in media, there are shuffles and delays, but no one is ready to admit defeat just yet. Wenner Media insists they can sell another Us Weekly (just not right now), and the Washington Post consolidates. • Wenner Media announced plans to delay the launch of Us Style , a fashion quarterly from Us Weekly , for a third time. The company still plans to publish the magazine in 2010. [ Mediaweek...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
More news to report from the media front: Political websites are closing down and everyone from Men’s Journal to the Christian Science Monitor is laying off staffers. But Bono is writing for the Times now. A sign of hope? Er, up to you. Sadly, you know the drill. • The Jared Kushner–owned Politicker network has shut down its New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania–based...
Little birdies are tweeting that Jann Wenner had to do another round of layoffs yesterday, this time at US Weekly, an unfortunate addition to the Rolling Stone-owner's Christmas firings. Basically, ever since November (which coincided almost perfectly with Rolling Stone's incredible shrinking trick), Wenner has cut costs the only way he knows how: fire everybody. Yet [...]
Can Wenner Media go three weeks without another spurt of layoffs? Probably not, judging by its recent history. The latest seemingly whimsical cuts came earlier today. An indeterminate number of...
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It's not going to be a merry Christmas for Rolling Stone staffers. Jann Wenner cut three from the editorial department before going on his yearly vacation, the New York Post 's Keith Kelly reports. Wenner Media axed respected Rolling Stone deputy editor Jason Gay , who just arrived at the company from GQ in March. ... Also gone is Erin Kelly from photo and Brian Breaker , a writer who joined in October...
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