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FILTER RESULTS ►Most Popular FishbowlNY Stories for The Week
Here’s a look at the FishbowlNY stories that made the most buzz this week. 1) Village Voice Fires Michael Musto, Robert Sietsema and Michael Feingold 2) Jann Wenner Names Gus Wenner Editor of Rollingstone.com 3) ESPN Cutting Hundreds...Show More Summary
Briefly: Brad Pitt, George Michael, Jesse James, Jann Wenner
Brief news from elsewhere: Brad Pitt thinks he has prosopagnosia, aka “face blindness.” That’s why he doesn’t remember you. No, seriously, it’s very sad. “You meet so many damned people,” he says, “and then you meet ’em again.” (Esquire) Yikes: … Continue reading ?
Jann Wenner Appoints 22-Year-Old Son, Gus, as Rollingstone.com's Editor-in-Chief...
Jann Wenner has appointed his 22-year-old son, Gus, as Rollingstone.com’s editor-in-chief. The new role for the young Wenner has drawn plenty of criticism, but Jann is quick to defend the decision. Via Adweek: Was this appointment the plan all along? I didn’t expect this. Show More Summary
Jann Wenner Thinks Gus Wenner is The Perfect Choice to Run RollingStone.com
Jann Wenner is very satisfied with naming Gus Wenner, his 22-year-old son, the new editor of Rollingstone.com. To quote Elaine, get out.
Below are some quotes from Jann’s interview with Adweek, along with some FishbowlNY analysis. In the talk, Jann explains why he hired his son without mentioning that he hired his son. Show More Summary
Rolling Stone boss Jann Wenner says he picked his 22 year-old son Gus to run the magazine's website
Rolling Stone boss Jann Wenner says he picked his 22 year-old son Gus to run the magazine's website because he "impressed me more than anyone." Read more...
Jann Wenner Made His 22 Year Old Son The Head of RollingStone.com
Nepotism is a tricky move to pull off because it’s almost always a sure-fire way to immediately lose the trust and respect of your employees even though they’ll go to extreme lengths to hide that fact from you while secretly getting their resume ready because clearly it’s only a matter of time before you replace Read More...
‘Rolling Stone’ Owner Puts Son, 22, In Charge Of RollingStone.com
Are you fresh out of college and unable to find a job? Then you’re probably not Gus Wenner, a 22-year-old recent graduate who was just named the editor at RollingStone.com. Coincidentally, Gus is the son of Jann Wenner, the owner of Rolling Stone‘s publisher Wenner Media. An email sent out to Rolling Stone staffers and picked up [...]Show More Summary
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Jann Wenner Names Gus Wenner Editor of RollingStone.com
Jann Wenner, the owner of Rolling Stone’s publisher, Wenner Media, has a son named Gus Wenner. The former Wenner has named the latter Wenner — all 22 years of him— the new editor of RollingStone.com. Seems fair. In a memo obtained by...Show More Summary
Jann Wenner's Kid Is the New Head of RollingStone.com
Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner has a knack for picking talent. So we're sure his online staff will give a hearty welcome to their new boss: Jann Wenner's fresh-out-of-college kid. Read more...
Gus Wenner is put in charge of RollingStone.com
Here’s Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s memo about his son‘s promotion. (I inserted the photo.) From: Jann Wenner Date: Monday, May 20, 2013 2:52 PM Subject: Gus Wenner Dear all: [Wenner Media chief digital officer] David Kang and I are very pleased — and I am very proud — to announce that Gus Wenner [left], … Read More
Power List 2013: JANN WENNER
Publishing Magnate, 67While Wenner Media struck a deal with Yahoo! to get Us Weekly and Rolling Stone content on its OMG and Music feeds (and vice versa), hoping to increase already robust web traffic and advertising revenue, the man...Show More Summary
Paul Williams on the Founding of America's First Rock Magazine
This week, we lost one of the godfathers of American rock criticism. Before Rolling Stone was a twinkle in Jann Wenner's eye, a college freshman created Crawdaddy! on mimeographed pages.
'The Magical Misery Tour': John Lennon Gets National Lampooned...
Dangerous Minds:
Actually this isn’t a parody so much as it’s satire. National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra used actual quotes from John Lennon’s infamous 1970 Rolling Stone interview with Jann Wenner (later published as Lennon Remembers) for this hysterical bit.
Read and comment. From dangerousminds.net.
Attention, Publishers: ‘Iconic’ Is Not A Business Model
Let's review what the year 2013 hath wrought so far in the media industry. Reader's Digest, staggering under $1.2 billion in debt, has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in four years. Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner managed to...Show More Summary
Rolling Stone Rocks and Rolls Its Way to iPad
In a May 2011 interview with AdAge, Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner memorably described magazine publishers’ embrace of the iPad as “premature” and spurred by “sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.” A little under two years later, Wenner Media has decided the time is right for the classic music magazine to embrace the... Read More
Rolling Stone finally comes to iPad, with buy links to iTunes
Two years ago, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner criticized magazine publishers' "premature" rush to iPad. Now, the 40-year-old music magazine is launching an iPad edition that includes a music purchase partnership with iTunes.
Rolling Stone finally comes to iPad, with buy links to iTunes
Two years ago, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner criticized magazine publishers' "premature" rush to iPad. Now, the 40-year-old music magazine is launching an iPad edition that includes a music purchase partnership with iTunes.
Celebrity Birthdays For January 7… Cha, Cha, Cha!
Happy Birthday to Katie Couric! She’s 56 today. Let’s see who else is celebrating a birthday. Country singer Jack Greene is 83. Keyboardist Paul Revere of Paul Revere and the Raiders is 75. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner is 67. Singer … Continue reading »
Wenner Media's $200M Albatross...
Wenner Media, parent company of Rolling Stone, US Weekly and Men’s Journal, is in a bit of a debt crisis. While they’re far from going over the fiscal cliff as it were, founder Jann Wenner’s “lavish lifestyle” apparently isn’t helping things. Show More Summary
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