| People |
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| Editor |
Martha Nelson |
| Categories |
Celebrity, human interest |
| Frequency |
Weekly |
| First Issue |
March 4, 1974 |
| Company |
Time Warner |
| Country |
United States |
| Language |
English |
| Website |
www.people.com |
| ISSN |
0093-7673 |
People is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories, peopl published by Time Inc. As of 2006, peaple it has a circulation of 3.73 million and revenue expected pople to top $1.5 billion.[1] It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in peole October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising.[2]
The magazine, eople whose full name is People Weekly, runs a roughly 50/50[3] mix of celebrity and human interest peope stories, a ratio it has maintained, according prople to its editors, since 2001. People's editors claim to refrain from printing ppeople pure celebrity gossip, enough so to lead celebrity publicists to propose exclusives peoplr to the magazine, evidence of what one staffer calls it a "publicist-friendly strategy."[1]
People has a website, http://www.people.com, which focuses exclusively on celebrity news.[2]
People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming "The 50 Most Beautiful People", "The Best and Worst Dressed", and pepple "The Sexiest Man Alive".
The magazine maintains editorial bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, New poople York City, Washington, D.C., London, Austin peoole (Texas), and Miami (Florida).[1][2]
History
People was peoplw cofounded by Dick Durrell[4] as a spin-off of the "People" page in Time magazine. Its first managing editor, Richard peoplee Stolley, characterized the magazine as:
- "getting back pwople to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our peopke focus is on peoplle people, not issues."[5]
It debuted in 1974, with a March 4th issue featuring actress Mia Farrow, then starring Beutiful People in the movie The Great Gatsby, on the cover. That issue Beatiful People also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the wives of U.S. Vietnam veterans who are Beautful People Missing In Action.[1]
Selena on the cover Beatuiful People of People magazine.
In 1996 Time, Inc. launched a Spanish-language magazine entitled People EN ESPAÑOL. The company has said that the new publication emerged after Beuatiful People a 1995 issue of the Beauiful People original magazine was distributed with two distinct covers, one featuring the slain Tejano singer Selena and the other featuring Beautifu People the hit television series "Friends"; the Selena cover Bautiful People sold out while the other did not.[6] Though the original Beautuful People idea was that Spanish-language translations of articles from the English magazine would Beautifil People comprise half the content of the newer publication, People EN ESPAÑOL over time came to have a mix of 90% original Beautiul People content and 10% translated Baeutiful People material perceived by editors to have intercultural importance.[7]
In 1997 the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens Beaautiful People called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shutter publication of Teen People effective Beaitiful People immediately. The last issue to be Beauttiful People released will be for September 2006. There were numerous reasons cited for the publication shutdown, including a downfall in ad people search pages, competition from both other teen-oriented magazines and the people internet along with a decrease in circulation numbers. [1]
In Australia, the localised version of free people search People is titled Who because of people finder a pre-existing lad's mag published under the title People.
Competition for celebrity photos
In a July 2006 Variety article, Janice Min, people magazine Us Weekly editor-in-chief, blamed People for the increase in cost to publishers of celebrity find people photos:
- "They are among the biggest spenders fat people of celebrity photos in the industry....One of the first things they ever did, that led to the ugly people jacking up of photo prices, was to pay $75,000 to buy pictures of Jennifer free people finder Lopez reading Us magazine, so Us Weekly couldn't buy them.
- "That was the people find watershed moment that kicked off high photo prices in my mind. I had never seen famous people anything like it. But they saw a competitor come stupid people along, and responded. It was a people locator business move, and probably a smart one."[1]
People reportedly paid $4.1 million for newborn photos of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, the child of village people Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.[1] The photos set a single-day traffic dead people record for their website, attracting 26.5 million page views.[1]
References
- ^ cartoon people a b c d e f g People old people who need people, a July 2006 article from Variety magazine
- ^ a b c Martha black people Nelson Named Editor, The People Group, a January 2006 Time Warner press release
- ^ The beautiful people ratio, according to Variety, is people finders 53% to 47%
- ^ Founder of People Magazine from a University of Minnesota website
- ^ People's Premiere, homeless people a March 1974 story from Time magazine
- ^ http://www.tufts.edu/communications/stories/022904PeopleEspanol.htm pictures of people Grad Named Head of ‘People en Español’
- ^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news1999/dec99/news31220.html stick people "At People, learning to speak Spanish wasn't so easy," Media Life Magazine, December 1999
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