Word: jann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INVENTORS have a way of getting bored with their creations, and would-be magazine mogul Jann Wenner has proven to be yet another restless mind too impatient to busy himself with perfecting what he gave birth to. As his personal plaything Rolling Stone magazine approached its tenth birthday, Wenner evidently decided that major changes were in order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan...
...second decade will lay to rest many of the doubts aroused by the anniversary issue. Greil Marcus's sensitive feature on Graham Parker and Dave Marsh's cutting review of a recent Rod Stewart concert prove that Rolling Stone remains an important publication that should be taken seriously, Jann Wenner's megalomania notwithstanding. But judging from the double-barrelled fiasco marking the tenth birthday of his magazine, Wenner would be well-advised to make the next celebration of a Rolling Stone landmark a more private affair...
...Area homes. Uniformed guards were posted at the biweekly's St. Louis printing plant. Randolph Hearst ordered a reporter at his San Francisco Examiner to find out whether the magazine's rumored scoop had anything to do with his daughter Patty. Rolling Stone Founder and Publisher Jann Wenner, 29, told the reporter no and branded the talk as empty gossip...
...Jann Wenner, 28, is known around the San Francisco offices of the biweekly Rolling Stone as "Citizen Wenner." The more or less jocular analogy to William Randolph Hearst is apt: Wenner is a brilliant, brash autocrat with an eye for lucrative markets and talented writers. Perceiving a vast audience for a rock-music magazine, he borrowed $7,500, produced his first issue in 1967. Since then, the staff has grown from six to 90, circulation has jumped to 415,000, and Stone's irreverent, meandering and sometimes erratic reportage has been extended to politics and society in general...
...York Magazine reported this week that Jann Wenner, editor of Rolling Stone, is also interested in buying The New Republic...