Us Weekly

People.com Adds Style Director - Posted May 11, 2012
Andrea Lavinthal has been named Style Director for People.com. Lavinthal comes to People from Us Weekly, where she most rec... [FishbowlNY]

Americans Love Snooki - Posted March 14, 2012
According to The New York Post, last week's Us Weekly, featuring a pregnant Snooki on the cover, sold extremely well. Sources tell the Post th... [FishbowlNY]

Sagging Sales? Just Add Whitney Houston - Posted February 23, 2012
Celebrity magazines know a gold mine when they see one, so it should come as no surprise that they scrambled to plaster Whitney Houston's face on their covers. A... [FishbowlNY]

Veteran Photo Director Departs Us Weekly - Posted December 27, 2011
Brittain Stone, a veteran of Us Weekly for 14 years, is leaving his post. Adweek reports that Stone will be replaced by Jennifer Halper, formerly the magazine's Deputy Photo Editor. It's not known why Stone left, but sources told ... [FishbowlNY]

Us Weekly Exec Editor Fills Newly-Created Role at Glamour - Posted December 15, 2011
Catherine Romano has been named Senior Executive Editor -- a new position -- at Glamour. Romano most recently worked as Executive Editor of Us Weekly, wher... [FishbowlNY]

Adweek Unveils Annual Hot List Next Week; CBS and MTV Early Winners - Posted December 2, 2011
New York-based Adweek has named the finalists for this year's Hot List. For the first time, the list expands from best in magazines to include television, print, and digital banners. The winners will be revealed next week, but FishbowlNY has learned exclusively about several of the honorees. CBS h... [FishbowlNY]

Us Weekly Brands Trucks - Posted February 8, 2011
With headlines like "Jennifer Lawrence: I'm Attracted to My Brother" Us Weekly has always stood out on a crowded newsstand, but now it's going to stand out on the highways as well. The magazine's Publisher, ... [FishbowlNY]

Christina Aguilera Splits With Husband - Posted October 12, 2010
News broke today that pop star Christina Aguilera and her husband, music executive Jordan Bratman, have separated. US Weekly first broke the story... [FishbowlLA]

Huffington Post Fires Back While Tabloids Fail the Accuracy Test, Plus Other News of the Day - Posted September 28, 2010
- The Week is starting to look rather Radar-y. As the Business Insider points out, the weekly publication has attempted to booster its website over the past year, and in doing so it has brought on six new digital hires, including three from the now defunct magazine Radar. Sounds like an... [MediaJobsDaily]

The Flip Side Of Newstand Losses: Accentuate The Positive! - Posted February 9, 2010
Yesterday was all doom and gloom for the future of print over at The New York Times, which reported an average newsstand loss in the maga... [FishbowlNY]

Janice Min Doesn't Lament Her $2M Pay Check - Posted February 4, 2010
Former Us Weekly editor Janice Min has been laying relatively low since ... [FishbowlNY]

Bonnie Fuller Runs A Tight Ship - Posted December 21, 2009
Today's interview with tabloid media queen Bonnie Fuller in the Canadian Globe and Mail is worth reading for a thousand different reasons. For one thing, ... [FishbowlNY]

FishbowlNY's 2009 Lists: Stories That Captivated NY Media - Posted December 21, 2009
Here at FishbowlNY, we stick to covering stories that affect the media. But it's the media's job to cover the biggest stories in the world today. Here, we take a look back at the news stories that left New York and the world riveted in 2009, covered faithfully by our local... [FishbowlNY]

FishbowlNY's 2009 Lists: The Year's Biggest Moves In Media - Posted December 21, 2009
This year -- full of flux and uncertainty about where the media is heading -- has resulted in a vast number of job changes and departures across all matter of media companies and publications. In almost every field of journalism, big names have either been fired, promoted, retired, or simply moved... [FishbowlNY]

Former Editor: Playgirl's "A Relevant Brand Name Once Again," Thanks In Part To Levi - Posted November 20, 2009
Levi Johnston with the author, Nicole Caldwell, at last week's Playgirl photo shoot Levi Johnston is standing naked in a 13th-floor studio in midtown Manhattan holding a hockey stick. He swivels his head and looks into the camera as -- click -- the photo is taken. This is the money shot: the one... [FishbowlNY]

Bonnie Fuller Launches New "Blogazine" HollywoodLife - Posted November 17, 2009
We've been hearing for months now about how Bonnie Fuller, formerly of Star and Us Weekly, was planning a media comeback with her new gossip blog ... [FishbowlNY]

Conde Nast Retreads On Familiar Obama Territory To Sell Copies - Posted October 28, 2009
A Michelle Obama Glamour cover for December? We know that coming up with new and original content for women's magazines that doesn't feel old hat is hard, but something about ... [FishbowlNY]

NYT's New Bay Area Blog|Playboy Cuts Rate Base|Us Weekly Officially Names Min's Successor|Conde Nast Traveler Pairs With Gilt Groupe - Posted October 21, 2009
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Social Ad Summit Report: Wikipedia Founder On Helping Kidnapped Journos - Posted October 7, 2009
Don Draper may not have been in attendance, but Monday's panels on advertising and the Internet at the Social Ad Summit at the New World Stages certainly had its fair share of slick sellers. Did you know that one in three people working in new media are developing Facebook applications? That... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo, Bloomberg Join Forces|Wenner Changes Distributors For Us|Denver Web Site Stops Producing New Content|David Letterman Scandal Round-Up - Posted October 2, 2009
FishbowlDC: The Washington Post has ... [FishbowlNY]

Four Vie For 2009 Thurber Prize|FBDC Founding Editor Graff Takes Over Washingtonian|NYT Columnist Buys New Home|Us Weekly Thrives|Economist Sells Single Copies In U.K. - Posted August 13, 2009
GalleyCat: The organizers of the Thurber Prize for... [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]

Janice Min Set To Depart Us Weekly - Posted July 21, 2009
Janice Min, longtime editor of celeb magazine Us Weekly said yesterday that she will be leaving her post when her ... [FishbowlNY]

Newsweek Redesign Hasn't Paid Off Yet|Min Looking To Leave Us?|September Ad Page Numbers May Not Be So Bad|Cox Sells More Papers|It's Not Looking Good For Business Journalism - Posted July 20, 2009
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan=&#... [FishbowlNY]

Bonnie Fuller Returns To Editor-In-Chief Spot at Celeb Web Site - Posted July 17, 2009
She once helped celebrity magazine Us Weekly become a must-read and guided American Media, which publishes Star... [FishbowlNY]

Mediaite Launches To Server-Crashing Traffic - Posted July 6, 2009
The hotly anticipated Mediaite.com, the media blog brainchild of consulting company Abrams Research, launched early this morning. The site, which has sections for TV, online and print media news and criticism in addition to columns from media heavy weigh... [FishbowlNY]

As Jon & Kate Head Toward Divorce, Is It Time To Back Off? - Posted June 23, 2009
After proclaiming that the "Jon & Kate + 8" marriage scandal was single-handedly helping to bring a dying media back to life, we thought it only fitting to add our voice to the ... [FishbowlNY]

"Jon & Kate + 8" Scandal Helps Bring Life Back To Dying Media - Posted May 29, 2009
Confession: We were one of the 9.8 million viewers who tuned in to watch the season premiere of "Jon & Kate + 8" on TLC Monday night. Although we have long found control freak Kate Gosselin and hen... [FishbowlNY]

US Weekly Draws ASME Fire for Faux Cover - Posted April 17, 2009
Turns out that even though times are as desperate as they are in the magazine world, you still can't do whatever you want to make money. ASME has jus... [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]

Sarah Palin Meets the Press Whether She Wants to or Not - Posted September 8, 2008
So much Palin! We're going to do a round-up: She will meet the press! Looks like ABC's Charlie Gibson has landed the first interview with the ... [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]

Wenner is Keeping US to Himself - Posted July 23, 2008
After months of (sometimes confusing) rumors, the New York Post is reporting that ... [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]

FBLA Exclusive: Face of Us Weekly, Ken Baker, Leaves The Mag - Posted January 13, 2008
Ken Baker, the editorial director of Usmagazine.com, and quite possibly the most senior employee of Us Weekly (he's been there eight years -- longer than Janice Min) sent a surprising e-mail to friends. The e-mail: Friends, I've decided that Golden Globes weekend is... [FishbowlLA]

The Toll "Real News" Takes - Posted April 19, 2007
The folks at Us Weekly, OK!, Star and E! must be taking some long lunch breaks this week. Whenever "real" news strikes (read: tragedy that happens in the U.S. -- that Iraq stuff is so played out), the appetite for celebrity dish tends to go way, way down. How far down? Thirty-three... [FishbowlLA]

James Brown | Jared Kushner | Mr. Rogers Redux? | Ex-Us Weekly Ed Convicted - Posted December 29, 2006
James Brown: Last Apollo gig loud, proud. [NYT] Jared Kushner: NYO owner plans free paper for NJ. [... [FishbowlNY]