People

Bradley Cooper is People's 'Sexiest Man Alive' - Posted November 16, 2011
Because your FishbowlNY editors graciously took themselves out of the running this year, People has selected Bradley Cooper as the "Sexiest Man Alive." Other celebrities that came close to receiving the honor included Ryan Gosling, Idris Elba... [FishbowlNY]

Reconstructing J. Lo - Posted May 16, 2011
The Style section of The New York Times published a curious article about the second life of ... [PRNewser]

Academy Awards Boost Magazine Website Traffic - Posted May 2, 2011
Thanks to Anne Hathaway being arguably the most boring person on the planet and James Franco being (shockingly!) not as smart as the media would like him to be, the Academy Awards were largely unwatchable this year. However, according to... [FishbowlNY]

People Alters Publishing for Royal Wedding - Posted April 28, 2011
Who wants to read about the Royal Wedding? Anyone? Well, too bad. If we have to, you have to. So here's the latest: People magazine - Time Inc.'s big money maker - is altering its publishing schedule this ... [FishbowlNY]

Justin Bieber Hurting Magazine Sales - Posted February 18, 2011
Adweek is reporting a curious trend: When magazines feature Justin Bieber on their covers, that issue doesn't sell well. When People had the teen sensation on its cover last Spring it sold few copies, and now Vanity Fair i... [FishbowlNY]

People, 1B People Who Read People ... - Posted February 2, 2011
People magazine is a billionaire: People.com became the first magazine Web site to top 1 billion monthly page views in January. The celebrity magazine also touted other new-media a... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

People.com Reaches One Billion Page Views - Posted February 2, 2011
The city looks like an ice rink thanks to the freezing rain it received overnight, and it basically snows every single day now, but the staffers at People are having a good winter. Earlier we told you that People is the most followed magazine on Twitter, and now Ad Age is reporting... [FishbowlNY]

Time Inc. Claims Four of Five Most Popular Magazines on Twitter - Posted February 2, 2011
A bit ago FishbowlNY poked fun at Time for having a whole team dedicated to their Twitter feed, but it looks like the joke is on us. According to Folio, four out of the top five most followed magazines on Twitter ... [FishbowlNY]

Which Magazine's iPad Apps are Making Money? - Posted January 28, 2011
Steve Smith at MIN has a report today on which magazine iPad apps are actually making some money for their publishers. The big winner is People, which ranked as the 3... [FishbowlNY]

People Marks 25 Years Of "Sexiest Man Alive" By Raking In Money For Charity - Posted December 17, 2010
What's that old saying, "sex sells"? In the past month ... [FishbowlNY]

iPad vs. Newsstand Sales for Six Magazines - Posted October 22, 2010
AdAge.com examined the iPad ap... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

TooFab.com Taps People Senior Editor David Caplan as Managing Editor - Posted October 7, 2010
The destination for all things fabulous now has a managing editor: David Caplan assumed the post for TooFab.com, which was launched by... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Jim Gaines' New Project - Posted February 5, 2010
FishbowlNY has learned exclusively that Jim Gaines, the editor-in-chief of interactive publication FLYP Media, is leaving to start a new interactive media company. Gaines, the former managin... [FishbowlNY]

People Union Employees Win Arbitration Over Web Writing - Posted January 14, 2010
A group of People magazine writers represented by the Newspaper Guild of New York have won an arbitration ruling upholding a 2007 agreement with Time Inc. that allowed all writing for maga... [FishbowlNY]

How Citizen Journalism Helps A Story Live On - Posted December 30, 2009
As we cover the media trends we're looking forward to in 2010, today we're focusing on citizen journalism and crowdsourcing -- two similar concepts that promote engagement between reporters and people involved in the stories they're covering. To get us started on this topic, we spoke to ... [FishbowlNY]

Tyra Banks Won't Be Upstaged By Oprah's Departure - Posted December 28, 2009
After five years of giving away Vaseline in the most psychotic way possible, Tyra Banks is putting an end to her Emmy-award winning talk show. The weavestress told ... [FishbowlNY]

FTC Conference: Panelist Jim Gaines Checks In - Posted December 3, 2009
We weren't able to make the trip to Washington, D.C. ourselves for the Federal Trade Commission's two-day conference discussing the future of journalism on the Web, but we wanted to get a sense of what was going on down there anyway. So we turned to... [FishbowlNY]

Time Inc. Closes Door on Buyouts Today - Posted November 18, 2009
As People magazine celebrates Johnny Depp as ... [FishbowlNY]

Former Time Inc. Exec On Recent Cuts: Positioning For A Better Future - Posted November 5, 2009
The expected cuts at Time Inc. started this week, with layoffs at ... [FishbowlNY]

First on FBNY: Time Inc. Shutters Custom Pub Fortune Small Business - Posted November 4, 2009
Although Time Inc. has said that it will not shutter any publications as part of the restructuring it is undergoing right now, FishbowlNY has learned ex... [FishbowlNY]

The Experts Weigh In On Conde Nast Closures - Posted October 6, 2009
In the day following the news that Conde Nast has decided to shutter four magazines, including ... [FishbowlNY]

Time Warner May Sell Off Magazines Eventually, Or Not - Posted September 28, 2009
Time Warner is completing its spin-off of AOL later this year, a deal that has led many ... [FishbowlNY]

Parents Deputy Editor Hickey Returns To Ladies' Home Journal - Posted September 28, 2009
Mary C. Hickey, formerly the deputy editor of Meredith's Parents magazine, has return... [FishbowlNY]

Former Cooking Light SVP Chris Allen Named Publisher Of Country Living - Posted September 11, 2009
Hearst Magazines today announced the appointment of Chris Allen as vice president/publisher of ... [FishbowlNY]

Former Time Editor Jim Gaines: Did You Get the Memo? - Posted September 10, 2009
Jim Gaines is the editor-in-chief of FLYPmedia, the first true digital multimedia publication. Gaines was the former managing editor at ... [FishbowlNY]

FLYP's James Gaines Offers Old Media A New Way Of Thinking About Online Content - Posted August 13, 2009
Now it's time for something completely different. In the current era of searching for "what's next" for the media industry, James Gaines, a former managing editor at People... [FishbowlNY]

Jon Gosselin's Charm Makes Girls Drop Pants, Jobs - Posted July 23, 2009
Well, it's official. Jon Gosselin's love has driven the Star magazine reporter assigned to cover the "Jon &... [FishbowlNY]

Us's Janie Min: "I don't think magazines are in my future." - Posted July 22, 2009
Yesterday, we learned that celebrity editor-in-chief Janice Min was stepping down from the top slot at Us Weekly. The question on everyone's mi... [FishbowlNY]

Barbara Walters To Receive Lifetime Achievement Emmy|HuffPo Launches Features To Watch Lobbyists, Misery|How Some Mags Are Using Paid Content Well|September Fashion Mags To Be Smaller| - Posted July 10, 2009
TVNewser: The National Academy of Television Arts ... [FishbowlNY]

More Michael Jackson Tributes: Four Special EW Covers, A Hardcover Book And More - Posted July 1, 2009
Last night, thousands of Michael Jackson fans gathered at New York's legendary Apollo Theater to honor the pop stars life and work. But they aren't the only ones paying t... [FishbowlNY]

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 ... [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 (... [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 ... [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 ... [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... [FishbowlNY]

Todd and Sarah Palin Revisit People - Posted October 22, 2008
Sarah Palin is making a second appearance in ... [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, ... [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 ... [FishbowlNY]

People Covers the Golden Children - Posted August 4, 2008
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's three week old twins Knox Leon and ... [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 ... [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 ... [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 t... [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 cha... [FishbowlNY]

(Geek) News You Don't Want To Miss: Thursday Roundup - Posted July 26, 2007
People: Rosario Dawson is a hot geek. The Book Standard: Geeks are tastemakers according to a Hollywood insider. Oh wait ... that insider is Ma... [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 ... [FishbowlLA]

FBLA 20 Questions: Leslie Gornstein - Posted February 12, 2007
E! Online's Answer Bitch and woman to watch, Leslie Gornstein took time off from abusing underlings to answer FBLA's 20 Questions. 1. What newspapers do you read? No physical papers; occasiona... [FishbowlLA]