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''People'' is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, ''People'' has the largest audience of any American magazine. ''People'' had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion.〔(People who need people ), a July 2006 article from ''Variety'' magazine.〕 It was named "Magazine of the Year" by ''Advertising Age'' in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising.〔(Martha Nelson Named Editor, The People Group ), a January 2006 Time Warner press release.〕 ''People'' ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on ''Adweek's'' "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006. The magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. ''People''s editors claim to refrain from printing pure celebrity gossip, enough to lead celebrity publicists to propose exclusives to the magazine, and evidence of what one staffer calls a "publicist-friendly strategy".〔 ''People''s website, People.com, focuses on celebrity news and human interest stories.〔 In February 2015, the website broke a new record: 72 million unique visitors.〔Media Industry News letter, March 2006〕 ''People'' is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming the "World's Most Beautiful," "Best & Worst Dressed" and "Sexiest Man Alive". The magazine's headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles and in London. For economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006.〔〔 ==History== The concept for ''People'' has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc.'s chief executive officer at the time and the former publisher of the weekly ''Life'' magazine. The founding managing editor of ''People'' was Richard B. (Dick) Stolley, a former assistant managing editor at ''Life'' and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. ''People''s first publisher was Richard J. (Dick) Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran. 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." Stolley's almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, the magazine only broke even 18 months after its debut in March 1974. Initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premiere edition for the week ending March 4, 1974 featured 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 were Missing In Action.〔 The magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents (). The core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from ''Life'' magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo (father of ESPN anchor Trey Wingo), Sam Angeloff (the founding managing editor of ''Us'' magazine) and Robert Emmett Ginna (later a producer of films); writers James Watters (a theater reviewer) and Ronald B. Scott (later a biographer of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney); former ''Time'' senior editor Richard Burgheim (later the founder of ''Time''s ill-fated cable television magazine ''View''); Chief of Photography, a ''Life'' photographer, John Loengard, to be succeeded by John Dominus, a noteworthy ''Life'' staff photographer; and design artist Bernard Waber, author and illustrator of the ''Lyle The Crocodile'' book series for children. Many of the noteworthy ''Life'' photographers contributed to the magazine as well, including legends Alfred Eisenstaedt and Gjon Mili and rising stars Co Rentmeester, David Burnett and Bill Eppridge. Other members of the first editorial staff included editors and writers: Ross Drake, Ralph Novak, Bina Bernard, James Jerome, Sally Moore, Mary Vespa, Lee Wohlfert, Joy Wansley, Curt Davis, and Jed Horne, later an editor of ''The Times-Picayune'' in New Orleans. 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.〔("Grad Named Head of ''People en Español''" ). Tufts University. February 29, 2004.〕 Although the original idea was that Spanish-language translations of articles from the English magazine would comprise half the content, ''People en Español'' over time came to have entirely original content. In 2002, ''People'' introduced ''People Stylewatch'', a title focusing on celebrity style, fashion, and beauty – a newsstand extension of its Stylewatch column. Due to its success, the frequency of ''People Stylewatch'' was increased to 10 times per year in 2007. In Australia, the localized version of ''People'' is titled ''Who'' because of a pre-existing lad's mag published under the title ''People''. The international edition of ''People'' has been published in Greece since 2010. On July 26, 2013, Outlook Group announced that it was closing down the Indian edition of ''People'', which began publication in 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「People (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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