US Weekly

Us Weekly, a celebrity gossip magazine, has been published by the Wenner Media, LLC since 1986, when it acquired the periodical from The MacFadden Group. The magazine was originally founded by The New York Times Company in 1977. It is published in a weekly format, and has an average circulation of 1.85 million issues.http://www.worldcat.org/title/us-weekly/oclc/43642300

The magazine's current editor in chief is Michael Steele, no relation to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/us-weekly-names-replacement-min-8975

Designed to complement its printed version, the website UsMagazine.com incorporates online versions of many of Us Weekly's best known sections, including: Just Like Us, Hot Pics and Fashion Police.http://www.usmagazine.com/

The website is also used as source to interact with their readers offering online polls and subscription offers for its printed version.

Video has also been incorporated into the website, with Us Weekly columnists offering video reports as teaser pieces to articles appearing in full in the printed version of the magazine.http://www.usmagazine.com/

Us Weekly was founded originally by the New York Times company as an entertainment industry magazine which was published bi-monthly under the name Us Magazine.

In 2000, with the magazine now owned and published by the Wenner Group, the magazine was reformatted to amplify its demographic reach and was transformed into a celebrity style and gossip magazine.

As part of the change in format, Us Magazine was changed to a weekly publication and changed its name to Us Weekly, the name which it is known as today.

In 2001, Wenner Media entered into a partnership with The Walt Disney Company which gave that company a 50% stake in Us Weekly. This partnership lasted until 2006, when Wenner Media repurchased the stake that had been held by Disney.

Prior to Us Weekly once again becoming a wholly owned publication of the Wenner Group. The magazine's website, UsMagazine.com was launched in July of 2006.