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Rolling Stone names top Daily Beast staffer as new editor in chief
Rolling Stone magazine named Noah Shachtman, the top editor at the Daily Beast, as its new editor-in-chief, ending a five-month search for a replacement. Shachtman, who will start the new...
WWD in turmoil after staffer behind grievance forum canned
Already depressed morale at "fashion bible" WWD hit a new low when a reporter behind a forum letting staffers vent their grievances was unceremoniously canned last week, Media Ink has...
Penske Media buys big stake in SXSW in bid to save festival: report
Penske Media Corp. — the publisher of titles including Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety -- has struck a deal for a 50 percent stake in South by Southwest, according to...
Rolling Stone hits back amid calls to boycott magazine
Rolling Stone is punching back after a blog post claimed that the magazine "sold out" to President Trump and the Saudis under its owner Jay Penske led to calls for...
Bonnie Fuller buys Hollywood Life from Penske Media
Bonnie Fuller -- once one of the hottest celebrities in publishing as she jumped from Hearst to Conde Nast to Wenner Media and American Media -- is taking the plunge...
Fashion 'bible' WWD loses two top editors amid COVID pandemic woes
Fashion "bible" Women's Wear Daily continues to slim down even as its owner, Penske Media, beefs up via a $225 million merger with the publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. Two...
DOJ in antitrust probe of Penske Media's deal to buy The Hollywood Reporter
The Department of Justice is investigating antitrust concerns surrounding Penske Media's deal to buy The Hollywood Reporter, The Post has learned. Sources close to the situation said the DOJ has...
Ex-Penske Media staffers stick Jay Penske with champagne tab at Pastis
Penske “came over to them and said, ‘I’m sorry we aren’t working with each other anymore.’”
Variety and Hollywood Reporter, once rivals, are now under same roof
Two longtime tinseltown rivals, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, will soon be part of the same team thanks to a merger unveiled Wednesday by their publishers. Penske Media Corp., which...
Rolling Stone, Variety publisher Penske Media closes NYC offices
Penske Media, owner of WWD (formerly Women's Wear Daily), Variety and Rolling Stone, has shut down all nine floors of its New York City offices after one confirmed case of...
Condé Nast to launch Vogue Business newsletter
Vogue is plowing into the less sexy side of fashion. The Condé Nast stalwart said Monday it will launch a new website and newsletter called Vogue Business. Instead of runway...
Penske Media buys Peter Brant's trove of art publications
Jay Penske’s publishing empire PMC just gobbled up a trove of art publications. The company, which owns Variety, WWD and Rolling Stone, said Tuesday that it bought print tycoon Peter...
Penske Media pressured to cut ties with Saudi fund
Pressure is building on Penske Media — the parent company of Rolling Stone and Variety — to unravel its finance deal with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in the wake...
Frontrunner emerges in bid to buy Sports Illustrated
At least three potential suitors for Sports Illustrated are believed to have dropped out of the hunt, making the buyout group that includes motivational speaker and author Tony Robbins and...
Deadlines approaching to bid on former Time Inc. titles
There are two different deadlines for those seeking to pick up some of the former Time Inc. titles that the new owner, Meredith, is selling. The auction for Time, Fortune...
Croughton named new US Robb Report editor
After a two month search, Jay Penske has found a new editor for the Robb Report. Paul Croughton, the former digital editor of the UK edition of the Robb Report,...
New Rolling Stone owner pumping $8M into fresh content
Rolling Stone is beefing up its music, politics and pop culture as its new owner gets ready to pump in an estimated $8 million to $10 million in a redesign...
Univision could sell Fusion and Gizmodo Media
Could Fusion and Gizmodo Media be going on the block? Speculation amped up after Vanity Fair’s Hive blog reported that Univision — the struggling Spanish-language TV network that owns Fusion...
Jay Penske said to get $200M investment from Saudi fund
Jay Penske has sold a minority stake of his media company, Penske Media Corp., to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, The Post has learned. The fund has invested “over $200...
Penske hopes to make Rolling Stone cool with millennials
Jay Penske dined with Gus Wenner and Jann Wenner at The Pool — formerly part of the fabled Four Seasons Restaurant — inside the Seagram Building on Wednesday night to...