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People
Image:People Logo.png
Editor Larry Hackett
Categories Celebrity, human interest, news
Frequency Weekly
First issue March 4, 1974
Company Time Inc. (Time Warner)
Country United States
Language English
Website www.people.com
ISSN 0093-7673

People (full name People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3. A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention A human interest story is a News story that discusses a person or persons in an interactive and/or emotional way News is any new information or information on Current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or Word of mouth Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Time Inc is a major subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner, the company formed by the 1990 Time Warner Inc ( is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered in New York City. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States An International Standard Serial Number ( ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic Periodical publication. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention A human interest story is a News story that discusses a person or persons in an interactive and/or emotional way Time Inc is a major subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner, the company formed by the 1990 75 million and revenue expected to top $1. 5 billion. [1] It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. Advertising Age (or AdAge) is a Magazine, delivering news analysis and data on marketing and media [2] People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on Adweek's "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.

The magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human interest stories, a ratio it has maintained, according to its editors, since 2001. a[›] People's editors claim to refrain from printing pure celebrity gossip, enough so to lead celebrity publicists to propose exclusives to the magazine, evidence of what one staffer calls a "publicist-friendly strategy. Gossip magazines feature scandalous stories about the personal lives of celebrities "[1]

People has a website, http://www.people.com, which focuses exclusively on celebrity news. [2] In February 2007, the website drew 39. 6 million page views "within a day" of the Golden Globes. However "the mother ship of Oscar coverage" broke a site record with 51. 7 million page views on the day after the Oscars, beating the previous record set just a month before from the Golden Globes. [3]

People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming "The Most Beautiful People", "The Best and Worst Dressed", and "The Sexiest Man Alive".

The magazine maintains editorial bureaus in New York City, Los Angeles and London. The City of New York Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. [1][2]

Contents

History

People was co-founded by Dick Durrell[4] as a spin-off from the "People" page in Time magazine. Richard J Durrell (ca 1925 &ndash March 7 2008) was an American advertising executive and one of the founding staff members for People Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Its first managing editor, Richard Stolley, characterized the magazine as "getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues. "[5]

It debuted in 1974, with a March 4 issue featuring actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby, on the cover. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow, known as Mia Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American Actress. The Great Gatsby is a Novel by the American author F Scott Fitzgerald. That issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the wives of U. Gloria Laura Madeleine Sophie Vanderbilt (born February 20, 1924 in New York City New York) is an American artist actress and socialite most Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (December 11 1918 – August 3 2008 was a Russian Novelist S. Vietnam veterans who are Missing In Action. Vietnam Era veteran is a phrase used to describe someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War. Missing in action is a status assigned to a member of the armed services who is reported missing following combat [1] The magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white.

In 1996 Time, Inc. launched a Spanish-language magazine entitled People en Español. People en Español ( People in Spanish) is a Spanish-language magazine published by Time Inc The company has said that the new publication emerged after a 1995 issue of the original magazine was distributed with two distinct covers, one featuring the slain Tejano singer Selena and the other featuring the hit television series Friends; the Selena cover sold out while the other did not. Tejano or Tex-Mex music is also a kind of music originating in Texas Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16 1971 – March 31 1995 best known as Selena, was an American Singer who has been called "The Queen of Friends was an [6] Though the original idea was that Spanish-language translations of articles from the English magazine would comprise half the content of People en Español over time came to have entirely original content.

Later, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People with immediate effect. Events 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The last issue to be released was for September 2006. Events in September It is the start of the academic year in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [7] Subscribers to this magazine received Seventeen Magazine for the rest of their issues in exchange. There were numerous reasons cited for the publication shutdown, including a downfall in ad pages, competition from both other teen-oriented magazines and the internet along with a decrease in circulation numbers. [8] Teenpeople. com was merged into People. com in April 2007. People. com will "carry teen-focused stories that are branded as TeenPeople. com" Mark Golin the editor of People. com explains the decision to merge the brands, "We've got traffic on TeenPeople, People is a larger site, why not combine and have the teen traffic going to one place?"[9]

In 2002, People introduced People Stylewatch, a title focusing on celebrity style, fashion, and beauty- a newsstand extension of its Stylewatch column. Due to its success, the frequency of People Stylewatch was increased to 10 times per year in 2007.

In Australia, the localized version of People is titled Who because of a pre-existing lad's mag published under the title People. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Who is a celebrity news and entertainment weekly Magazine produced in Australia by Pacific Magazines. This is a list of Magazines primarily marketed to Men. The list has been split into subcategories according to the target audience of the magazines People is a weekly Australian lad's mag published by ACP Publishing, a division of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited.

Competition for celebrity photos

In a July 2006 Variety article, Janice Min, Us Weekly editor-in-chief, blamed People for the increase in cost to publishers of celebrity photos:

"They are among the biggest spenders of celebrity photos in the industry. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman Us Weekly is a celebrity magazine originally founded in 1977 by The New York Times Company, and acquired by Wenner Media in 1986 A publication's editor in chief is its Primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies . . . One of the first things they ever did, that led to the jacking up of photo prices, was to pay $75,000 to buy pictures of Jennifer Lopez reading Us magazine, so Us Weekly couldn't buy them. Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July
"That was the watershed moment that kicked off high photo prices in my mind. I had never seen anything like it. But they saw a competitor come along, and responded. It was a 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 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4 1975 is an American film actor William Bradley "Brad" Pitt Pitt received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for his role in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys [1] The photos set a single-day traffic record for their website, attracting 26. 5 million page views. [1]

Recently, "Dancing with the Stars" host Samantha Harris decided to share the news of her pregnancy with People, even before she announced it on her own show. Harris said she "ideally wanted a prestigious magazine to be the one to break it," Harris tells FBLA. " People breaks a lot of baby news and seems to be a reliable source. Plus, I've never had a chance to be in People, and it was nice that they wanted to break it. "[10]

Recently Jennifer Lopez decided to sell photos of her twin newborn babies (a boy and girl) for $6 million to People Magazine. Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July

Awards

Sexiest Man Alive

Currently an annual feature, the Sexiest Man Alive designation by the magazine is billed as a benchmark of male beauty. It is determined in a similar procedure to Time's Person of the Year. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States Newsmagazine Time that features and profiles The origin of the title was a discussion on a planned story on Mel Gibson. Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3 1956 A female editor exclaimed, "Oh my God, he is the sexiest man alive!" And someone else said, "You should use that as a cover line. "[11]

For the first decade or so, the feature appeared at uneven intervals. Originally awarded in the wintertime, it shifted around the calendar, resulting in gaps as short as seven months and as long as a year and a half (with no selection at all during 1994). Since 1997, the dates have settled between mid-November and early December.

Dates of magazine issues, winners, ages of winners at the time of selection, and pertinent comments are listed below.

Year Choice Age Notes
1985-02-04 Mel Gibson 29 First person chosen
1986-01-27 Mark Harmon 34
1987-03-30 Harry Hamlin 35
1988-09-12 John F. Kennedy, Jr. 27 Longest gap between selections: eighteen months. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3 1956 Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Thomas Mark Harmon (better known as Mark Harmon; born September 2, 1951) is an American Actor. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Harry Robinson Hamlin (born October 30, 1951) is an American film and television Actor, known for his role as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr (November 25 1960 – July 16 1999 often referred to as John F Only winner now deceased. Was the youngest winner. Only non-actor to win.
1989-12-16 Sean Connery 59 Oldest winner
1990-07-23 Tom Cruise 28
1991-07-23 Patrick Swayze 39
1992-03-16 Nick Nolte 51
1993-10-19 Richard Gere
Cindy Crawford		 44
27		 People took a one-year hiatus from Sexiest Man and instead awarded Sexiest Couple
1995-01-30 Brad Pitt 31 First of two awards
1996-07-29 Denzel Washington 41 First and only African American winner
1997-11-17 George Clooney 36 First of two awards
1998-11-16 Harrison Ford 56
1999-11-15 Richard Gere 50 First two-time winner (previous win was shared)
2000-11-13 Brad Pitt 36 First solo two-time winner
2001-11-26 Pierce Brosnan 48
2002-12-02 Ben Affleck 30
2003-12-01 Johnny Depp 40
2004-11-29 Jude Law 31
2005-11-28 Matthew McConaughey 36
2006-11-27 George Clooney 45 Second win
2007-11-26 Matt Damon 37 [12][13]

Best selling issues

See also

Notes

^ a: The ratio, according to Variety, is 53% to 47%. A sex symbol is a famous person of either gender typically an Actor, Musician, model, Teen idol, or Sports star

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g People who need people, a July 2006 article from Variety magazine
  2. ^ a b c Martha Nelson Named Editor, The People Group, a January 2006 Time Warner press release
  3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/business/media/19oscars.html?ei=5070&en=eb4d4a33da296591&ex=1177128000&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1176998874-81JFp4XY79gbmv17Dl/bCQ<Media Industry News letter, March 2006>
  4. ^ Founder of People Magazine from a University of Minnesota website
  5. ^ People's Premiere, a March 1974 story from Time magazine
  6. ^ http://www.tufts.edu/communications/stories/022904PeopleEspanol.htm Grad Named Head of ‘People en Español’
  7. ^ Teen People magazine closes, but website will still continue
  8. ^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_6217.asp Medialifemagazine. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman Time Warner Inc ( is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered in New York City. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and com
  9. ^ TeenPeople.com to Merge Into People.com
  10. ^ mediabistro.com: FishbowlLA
  11. ^ Argetsinger, Amy; Roberts, Roxanne (November 19, 2007), "Matt Damon??!!! We Demand to Differ!". Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-01-31
  12. ^ No byline (2007-11-26), "The Sexiest Man Alive". 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" People. 68 (22):70 Retrieved 2008-01-31
  13. ^ No byline (2006-11-27), "EXCLUSIVE! GEORGE REVEALS His Pick for Sexiest Man Alive". 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont People. 66 (22):80 Retrieved 2008-01-31

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