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The good news, for magazine publishers, is that the earthward plummet in newsstand sales has finally started to moderate. The bad news is that sales are still falling at a vertigo-inducing rate -- just not quite so rapidly as they were a few months ago.

A media industry observer who fell asleep seven years ago and woke up last week would've had a hard time believing Friday's newspapers. That was the day that celebrity editor Bonnie Fuller publicly gave up her plans to start her own women's media company, while Quadrangle Group washed its hands of...

Americans are interested in Michael Jackson's death -- really, really interested -- but not so much in looking at his dying body, apparently. OK! magazine spent a reported $500,000 to obtain the exclusive "last photo" of the singer en route to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. But the...

When publisher Jann Wenner first revealed his plan to take Us, a middling monthly entertainment magazine, and put it into head-to-head competition with People, the world's most profitable weekly, it had the makings of a colossal error. In time, it even looked like an error to Wenner, who, panicked...