Media Profiles

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Former US Weekly Editor Janice Min Never Liked Celebrities; Always Liked Money

Back when Janice Min was editor of US Weekly, she seemed like a general in the celebrity-industrial complex’s war on culture.

Now that she’s editor of Prometheus’ glossy L.A. trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, she says she was always more of a mercenary.

“I found growing the business interesting, but I didn’t find the actual content interesting,” Read More

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Yolanda Adams–She’s Just Like Whitney! So Says Us Weekly in Getty Foul-Up [Updated]

An eagle-eyed Twitter user caught Us Weekly in an embarrassing mix-up last night–a story about Lady Gaga’s acceptance speech shout-out to Whitney Houston was illustrated with a photo of last night’s performer Yolanda Adams. The trouble may stem to a mislabeled Getty Images photo of Adams–one photo was inadvertently labeled “Whitney Houston.” Read More

Us Weekly Editor’s Lafayette Apartment Sells At a Min-imum

Janice Min, Us Weekly‘s formidable former editor and recent Hollywood Reporter recruit, has officially sold her “sprawling” corner loft at 285 Lafayette Street. The apartment, listed at $7.395 million in March, was scooped up 22 days afterward by a “secretive New York family,” according to the New York Post. The Post reported that the apartment Read More

Media Fascination With Obama Is No Liberal Conspiracy

Once again, the right is up in arms, yelling that the Liberal Media is conspiring to distort coverage and silence opposing views so that their chosen candidate might claim the White House. Several specific developments account for the current clamoring.

One is the presidential-level press coverage of Barack Obama’s trip to Afghanistan and the Middle Read More

Us and She: Wenner Might Sell But Fuller Cashes In

In today’s New York Post, Keith Kelly reports that Jann Wenner may be trying to sell US Weekly to Condé Nast for $750 million.

That’s a lot of scratch for pictures of Katherine Heigl getting Starbucks, but according to Kelly, the magazine is not only "lucrative" (he uses the term twice), but profitable Read More