Jann Wenner
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Wenner is Keeping US to Himself - Posted July 23, 2008
After months of (sometimes confusing) rumors, the New York Post is reporting that Jann Wenner is no longer interested in selling US Weekly. Wenner was rumored to be offering up the celeb mag at a price of $750 million, with the idea that at some point the celebrity market was... [FishBowlNY]
Rolling Stone Teases Britney Spears Story - Posted February 6, 2008
Rolling Stone follows Blender's lead on the Britney Spears beat, with a piece by Vanessa Grrigordias, last seen skewering Gawker. Starts off nicely:
In person, Britney is shockingly beautiful--clear skin, ruby lips, a perfectly proportioned twenty-six-year-old porcelain doll with a nasty weave.
Moves into weirdness pretty quickly:
"Fuck you, fuck people, fuck, fuck,... [FishBowlLA]
Marc Weingarten's Review Pushed Hunter Thompson Widow To Tears - Posted November 2, 2007
Hunter Thompson's widow, Anita Thompson, is boo-hooing over Marc Weingarten's LAT review of a new biography of the gonzo king, Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson.
According to Stacey McCain in the Washington Times, Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour discredit everything Thompson wrote after leaving Rolling Stone. Considering the source,... [FishBowlLA]
Is Janice Min Leaving Us Weekly? Or Just Being Coy? - Posted June 29, 2007
Us Weekly EIC Janice Min hasn't signed her contract with Jann Wenner--what can this mean?
Is she holding out for more money? After all, she did come up with the Paris moratorium idea. Does she want to transform the gossip/celeb rag into something more worthy?
Was the Panopticist right... [FishBowlLA]
Wallpaper*'s Offices Too 'Common' - Posted June 21, 2007
So design magazine Wallpaper* (you know, the one responsible for unleashing Tyler Brulé upon the world) recently moved into new offices in London's Blue Fin building. They share the space with parent company IPC Media's other properties, which include Country Life and The Railway Magazine.
Wallpaper* isn't too happy about the arrangement.... [FishBowlNY]
Lunch at Michael's: Forget Michael Caine It's Star Jones! - Posted June 6, 2007
Imagine our disappointment when we heard that had we chosen to come by on Monday, we'd have been sipping Bloody Marys at the bar with Claire Danes and Natasha Richardson. Luckily, there were enough faces in today's crowd from filmdom, fashion and, of course, publishing to satisfy our appetite for observing... [FishBowlNY]
Video: Inside The Ellies - Posted May 2, 2007
While we were busy liveblogging the blingy National Magazine Awards last night, our Brooklyn-based videographer Kelly Loudenberg was there shooting the revelry. Watch Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner attack the Bush administration ("... killing innocent people for some fantasy war, denying global warming exists and burning more f*cking fossil fuels than... [FishBowlNY]
Jann Wenner Wishes He Sold Rolling Stone To MTV When He Had The Chance - Posted April 19, 2007
Wenner [left] at the National Magazine Awards in May 2006
As Rolling Stone preps its New Yorker-style DVD archive project and 40th anniversary issue, founder Jann Wenner has had some time to reflect on his professional regrets.
AP [via Jossip]:
There are few professional regrets. A Frank Sinatra interview was dangled in front of... [FishBowlNY]
Editor Tom Foster Resigns from Men's Journal - Posted January 31, 2007
Trouble in "paradise"?
Tom Foster, editor-in-chief, Men's Journal, Monday:
"The conventional wisdom in the magazine world is that you have to job-hop to get ahead that's not necessarily true. I got the job because I had been there and knew the magazine through its various forms."
Today:
Tom Foster, editor of Men's Journal, has... [FishBowlNY]
Jann Wenner Doesn't Call - Posted January 8, 2007
In light of last night's premiere of MTV's new reality show, I'm From Rolling Stone, the Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a true-to-life article by DFWST staff writer and former Rolling Stone intern Aman Batheja.
Batheja dispels any notion that the sextet is performing typical tasks. "These kids worked the red carpet... [FishBowlNY]
When Rolling Stone Tried TV the First Time: Dancing Strawberries and Donny Osmond - Posted January 5, 2007
While the Rolling Stone/MTV reality show is sure to be engrossing, if you like that sort of thing, it's not the first TV venture for the mag. In 1977, Jann Wenner launched a 10th Anniversary Special. Directed by Steve Binder, written by Steve Martin and Mason Williams, Donny... [FishBowlLA]
When Rolling Stone Tried TV the First Time: Dancing Strawberries and Donny Osmond - Posted January 5, 2007
While the Rolling Stone/MTV reality show is sure to be engrossing, if you like that sort of thing, it's not the first TV venture for the mag. In 1977, Jann Wenner launched a 10th Anniversary Special. Directed by Steve Binder, written by Steve Martin and Mason Williams, Donny... [FishBowlLA]
Jim Cramer's Soft Side | View's New Star | O.J.'s Blood Money | Ivanka Trump's Defense - Posted January 5, 2007
A Tale: Of two Jim Cramers. [Marketwatch]
Judge Freezes: O.J.'s blood money. [E!]
View: To place Star Jones with Sherri Shepherd? [Jossip]
Ivanka Trump: Rosie started it. [AP]
NBC's: Holiday ratings blitz. [CityNews]
MTV's: Rolling Stone reality show debut includes Jann Wenner-esque cockiness. [USA Today]... [FishBowlNY]





