Jann Wenner

Jann Wenner Buys $11.9 Million Montauk Waterfront Home

New York Post | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media


It's rock 'n' roll time in Montauk. After summering in Martha's Vineyard rentals with partner Matt Nye, Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenne...

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame To Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Two Huge Concerts

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment


A full roster of music legends will help the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebrate its silver anniversary with two sweeping concerts in Madison Square Ga...

Janice Min, Us Weekly Editor, Is Stepping Down

AP | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Janice Min, the editor in chief of Us Weekly for six years, is leaving the celebrity magazine to pursue "other opportunities." Thoug...

Matt Taibbi Blogging For True/Slant: "Did Jann Wenner's Blog-ophobia Drive [Him] To Moonlight?"

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media


Did Jann Wenner's blog-ophobia drive one of his most popular writers to moonlight? Among the brand-name journalists contributing to True/Slant, a n...

Bette Midler's Hulaween Ball: A Great Investment

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 12.02.2008 | Green


Andrea Chalupa

Last night, at Bette Midler's annual Hulaween Ball in the Waldorf Astoria, the eco-diva raised $2-3 million for New York's Restoration Project. Ticket...

Rolling Stone's Format Shrinks After Four Decades

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Rolling Stone magazine is shrinking with the times. After more than four decades of standing out with a larger format than other mag...

Us Weekly Spinoff: Wenner Plans Quarterly Fashion Magazine

Wall Street Journal | Russell Adams | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media


US Weekly, which inspired a host of competitors by using candid celebrity photos, a larger dose of scandal and splashy graphics to emerge from the sha...

Rolling Stone Set To Debut Smaller, Sleeker Format

New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 09.10.2008 | Media


Some packages like the curvaceous old Coke bottle become so iconic that they are recognizable at 30 paces. So it is with Rolling Stone, whose large fo...

Us Weekly No Longer For Sale As Wenner Breaks Off Talks: Report

New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media


IT'S shaping up to be the summer of no deals in the world of magazines. The biggest deal not getting done is Us Weekly, as Wenner Media owner Jann We...

Conde Nast Buying Rolling Stone? Rumor Propped Up On Charlie Rose Show

Folio: | Dylan Stableford | Posted 07.05.2008 | Media


Near the end of an otherwise unremarkable interview with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner (both of whom have dev...

FundRace: How The Media Gave (Or Didn't Give) In 2007

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


With campaign finance data for the 4th quarter of 2007 released late last week, Huffington Post's FundRace now gives us information on a year's worth ...

Britney Rejects Rolling Stone

New York Post | Richard Johnson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Britney Spears may have finally made a good decision. The train wreck, who hasn't done much publicity for her new album, "Blackout," besides her daily...

Jann Wenner On Impossibility Of Starting New Magazines, Expecting Twins With Partner

Business Week via Gawker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Rolling Stone and Us Weekly owner Jann Wenner and his partner, Matt Nye, (for whom he dropped his wife, Jane) are expecting twins in January, accordin...