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People is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.73 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. more...

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It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising.

The magazine, whose full name is People Weekly, runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human interest stories, a ratio it has maintained, according to its editors, since 2001. People's editors claim to refrain from printing pure celebrity gossip, enough so to lead celebrity publicists to propose exclusives to the magazine, evidence of what one staffer calls it a "publicist-friendly strategy."

People has a website,

People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming "The 50 Most Beautiful People", "The Best and Worst Dressed", and "The Sexiest Man Alive".

The magazine maintains editorial bureaus in New York City, Los Angeles and London. People is shutting down its bureaus in Washington, Miami, Chicago and Austin, Texas

History

People was cofounded by Dick Durrell as a spin-off of the "People" page in Time magazine. Its first managing editor, Richard Stolley, characterized the magazine as:

"getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues."

It debuted in 1974, with a March 4th issue featuring actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby, on the cover. That issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the wives of U.S. Vietnam veterans who are Missing In Action.

In 1996 Time, Inc. launched a Spanish-language magazine entitled People EN ESPAÑOL. The company has said that the new publication emerged after a 1995 issue of the original magazine was distributed with two distinct covers, one featuring the slain Tejano singer Selena and the other featuring the hit television series "Friends"; the Selena cover sold out while the other did not. Though the original idea was that Spanish-language translations of articles from the English magazine would comprise half the content of the newer publication, People EN ESPAÑOL over time came to have a mix of 90% original content and 10% translated material perceived by editors to have intercultural importance.

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