Biography of people of today magazine
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People (magazine)
American weekly magazine
For the Australian magazine, see People (Australian magazine).
People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories. It fryst vatten published by Dotdash Meredith, a subsidiary of IAC.[3] With a readership of &#;million adults in , People had the largest audience of any American magazine, but it fell to second place in after its readership significantly declined to &#;million.[4][5]People had $&#;million in advertising revenue in , the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine.[6] In , it had a circulation of &#;million and revenue expected to top $&#;billion.[7] It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October , for excellence in editorial, circulation, and advertising.[8]People ranked number 6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and number 3 on Adweek's "Brand Blazers" list in October
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“People” magazine launches
On March 4, , actress Mia Farrow from The Great Gatsby graces the cover of the inaugural issue of People, a weekly celebrity and human interest magazine spotlighting the personal lives of notable and intriguing people. People remains one of America’s best-selling weeklies.
People’s founding editor Richard Stolley came from the newsweekly LIFE, where he’d been assistant managing editor—and gained fame for acquiring the Zapruder film of J.F.K.’s assassination. In his first editor’s letter for the new publication, Stolley said People would focus on “the headliners, the stars, the important doers, the comers, and on plenty of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary situations.” The emphasis would be on people, not issues.
The inaugural issue, which cost 35 cents and had 72 pages, featured articles about people as varied as Exorcist author William Peter Blatty, fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt and Marina Oswald, the widow of John
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The following is adapted from the new special issue LIFE&#;s People Who Changed the World, available at newsstands and online:
History never stops moving. It evolves. It is fluid. What history looks like today is different from what it looked like, say, a hundred years ago; and what today’s history-in-the-making looks like now may be seen very differently just 20 years from now. Did anyone in really think Henry Ford was changing the world when he started tinkering with how to make his Model T? Other than maybe Henry himself, probably not. Will Elon Musk be seen in as a world changer because of his electric Tesla? He may or he may not.
When combing the past and the present for a list such as the People Who Changed the World, there are criteria to consider, to be sure, but there are no hard-and-fast rules. There are judgments to be made, but there are no certain truths. Our list was less a hardened document than a current collection—a collection of men and women who, for better an