Title | People Weekly |
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Image file | People cover chace .jpg |
Editor | Larry Hackett |
Category | Celebrity, human interest, news |
Company | Time Inc. (Time Warner) |
Firstdate | March 4, 1974 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Website | People |
Issn | 0093-7673}} |
People (originally called People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. 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 articles. 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".
People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming "Most Beautiful People", "The Best Dressed", and "The Sexiest Man Alive".
The magazine maintains a single editorial bureau in Los Angeles. Due to economic reasons it has recently closed bureaus in New York City, Austin, Miami, Chicago, and London. as a spin-off from the "People" page in Time magazine. 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."
It debuted in 1974, with a March 4 issue featuring actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby, on the cover. That issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the wives of U.S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action. 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.
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.
Title | Teen People |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Editor | Christina FerrariBarbara O'Dair |
Editor title | Managing Editor |
Category | Celebrity |
Company | Time Inc. (Time Warner) |
Language | English |
Firstdate | 1998 |
Lastdate | September, 2006 |
Country | |
Website |
In 1998, 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 immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received Entertainment Weekly 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. 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 explained, with 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?"
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.
As of 2011, John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Patrick Swayze are the only winners to have died since winning.
{|class="wikitable sortable" |- ! style="width:10%;" | Year ! style="width:25%;" | Choice ! style="width:10%;" | Age ! style="width:55%;" | Notes |- | | 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: 18 months. Was the youngest winner. Only non-actor to win. First member to have since died (1999). |- | 1989-12-16 | Sean Connery | 59 | Oldest person to win the title. First winner to have portrayed James Bond. First scottish winner. |- | 1990-07-23 | Tom Cruise | 28 | |- | 1991-07-23 | Patrick Swayze | 39 | Second member to have since died (2009). |- | 1992-03-16 | Nick Nolte | 51 | |- | 1993-10-19 | Richard GereCindy 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 African American winner, only non-white 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. |- | 2000-11-13 | Brad Pitt | 36 | First two-time solo winner. |- | 2001-11-26 | Pierce Brosnan | 48 | Second winner to have portrayed James Bond. First Irish winner. |- | 2002-12-02 | Ben Affleck | 30 | |- | 2003-12-01 | Johnny Depp | 40 | First of two awards. |- | 2004-11-29 | Jude Law | 31 | First English winner |- | 2005-11-28 | | 36 | |- | 2006-11-27 | George Clooney | 45 | Second win. |- | 2007-11-26 |Matt Damon | 37 | |- | 2008-11-25 | Hugh Jackman | 40 | First Australian winner. |- | 2009-11-18 | Johnny Depp | 46 | Second win. |- | 2010-11-17 | Ryan Reynolds | 34 | First Canadian winner. |}
For example, the news-makers People Magazine named as the 'Most Intriguing People of 2010' were: # Sandra Bullock # President Barack Obama and his wife # Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie # Michael Douglas # Elizabeth Smart # Prince William and Kate Middleton # Elin Nordegren # Natalie Portman # Nicki Minaj # Sarah Palin # LeBron James # Bret Michaels # Julian Assange # The Chilean Miners # Ricky Martin # Kim Kardashian # Mark Zuckerberg # Heidi Montag # Jake and Taylor # Ryan Reynolds # Will Smith’s kids (Jaden and Willow) # Christina Aguilera # Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez # James Franco # Conan O’Brien
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