People

Ladies' Home Journal Names Entertainment Director - Posted May 28, 2009
Ladies' Home Journal named a new entertainment director today: Susan Pocharski, a 20-year industry vet with experience wrangling celebrity interviews for magazines like People and Us. Pocharski most recently worked for Reader's Digest, booking their entertainment coverage. She also worked as a senior editor at People, where she produced the magazine's first... [FishBowlNY]

People Disappears from Wal-Mart in Distribution Stand-Off - Posted February 4, 2009
One has to wonder at the logic of a magazine distribution standoff in the midst of a financial crisis that's threatening to sink the industry. Nonetheless (as threatened) Time Inc., American Media, and Bauer have pulled their magazines from Wal-Mart, the single biggest magazine retailer in the country, over a... [FishBowlNY]

Time Inc. in Price Hike Showdown With Burkle Company - Posted January 28, 2009
Unlike, say, Conde Nast — who amidst the outcry over the closure of Domino may be wishing very much they had invested in their web properties prior to "seeing the religion" as a result of the financial collapse — Time Inc., as we mentioned yesterday, is doing fairly well online. ... [FishBowlNY]

People in the Tank for 'Scary Smart' Brangelina? - Posted November 21, 2008
According to the New York Times People — one of the few magazines still doing well in this economy, by the way — agreed to give Angelina Jolie and family positive coverage (no using the term Brangelina!) as part of a package deal that included photos of her newborn twins and... [FishBowlNY]

Time Inc. Looking For Buyout Volunteers Before Commencing Mandatory Layoffs - Posted November 10, 2008
We're beginning to get more details about where the 600 layoffs Time Inc. announced last month will land. Over at All Things D Peter Kafka is reporting that managing editors at Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Money — all of which employ Newspaper Guild members — will send out... [FishBowlNY]

Todd and Sarah Palin Revisit People - Posted October 22, 2008
Sarah Palin is making a second appearance in People (they point do out that this is not the Sarah Palin of five weeks ago!) in what is turning out to be Sarah Palin Embraces the Media week! (Lately she's been speaking more frequently with the press and even has an... [FishBowlNY]

People: For All Your Pressing Political Questions - Posted September 11, 2008
Has People gone all political? Last week the magazine featured Sarah Palin on its cover, this week it's John McCain and family — perhaps post-Palin we are going to have to redefine what actually qualifies as a "celebrity" candidate. ... [FishBowlNY]

People: For All Your Pressing Political Questions - Posted September 11, 2008
Has People gone all political? Last week the magazine featured Sarah Palin on its cover, this week it's John McCain and family — perhaps post-Palin we are going to have to redefine what actually qualifies as a "celebrity" candidate. ... [FishBowlNY]

Magazine Sales Numbers Released for First Half of 2008 - Posted August 12, 2008
We're going to focus on the positive. The Audit Bureau of Circulation released their numbers yesterday for the first half of 2008 and In Style and People are doing fine (though the Brangelina cover may not be as big as they'd hoped numberswise, if numbers were actually what they were... [FishBowlNY]

People Covers the Golden Children - Posted August 4, 2008
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's three week old twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline hits newsstands today. People paid upwards of $14 million to nab the first cover shots of the dynamic newborn duo, and the issue features "19 pages of intimate family photos and the full interview with Brad... [FishBowlNY]

People Covers the Golden Children - Posted August 4, 2008
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's three week old twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline hits newsstands today. People paid upwards of $14 million to nab the first cover shots of the dynamic newborn duo, and the issue features "19 pages of intimate family photos and the full interview with Brad... [FishBowlNY]

Unconfirmed: People Gets the Golden Children - Posted July 31, 2008
Looks like People has scored the right to pay between $10 and $15 million to publish pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. This news comes to us via Just Jared, and has yet to be confirmed (so, sort of similar to John... [FishBowlNY]

Unconfirmed: People Gets the Golden Children - Posted July 31, 2008
Looks like People has scored the right to pay between $10 and $15 million to publish pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. This news comes to us via Just Jared, and has yet to be confirmed (so, sort of similar to John... [FishBowlNY]

Celebrity Magazines: Some of US Are Struggling - Posted July 11, 2008
We know the saying goes "As GM goes, so goes the country" but considering our celebrity saturated climate maybe it would also be fair to say that as tabloids go, so goes the magazine industry. If that's the case than today's report that Us Weekly is having problems meeting its... [FishBowlNY]

HollyShorts Parties at Murano and We're There. Kinda. - Posted May 29, 2008
FBLA spies infiltrated the HollyShorts party at Murano last night and had this to report: start-up film makers are pretty rad. A host of former journalists (a few from E! and a couple from People were spotted by our spies) have gotten into the short film-making, and from all accounts their... [FishBowlLA]

Lunch: The British Are Coming — Tomorrow! - Posted March 19, 2008
— DIANE CLEHANE We're still exhausted from hob nobbing with last week's overflow of A-listers, so we were almost glad things were a bit more subdued at 55th & Fifth today. It gave us a chance to catch up and chat with some our favorite regulars. Imagine my chagrin when I stopped... [FishBowlNY]

Most Thankless Job Ever? - Posted May 7, 2007
We weren't sure who had it worse, the marketing department at E! where the network is gearing up for the next season of the Paris Hilton reality show The Simple Life, or Elliot Mintz, Hilton's longtime publicist. Well, allow Mintz to clarify: He's got it much, much worse. Or did, anyway. Mintz... [FishBowlLA]

Sundown on Sunset -- The Oscars Edition - Posted February 23, 2007
It's a cross between the Westminster Dog Show and your high school prom, but for whatever reason, we all go ga-ga over the Oscars. Here's a roundup of this week's Oscars coverage: The Envelope put out an Oscars preview issue that included too much Elizabeth Snead... which is to say any at... [FishBowlLA]