People, a weekly magazine of celebrity and popular culture news, debuted in 1974. It is best known for its yearly special issues naming "The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World," "The Best & Worst Dressed," and "The Sexiest Man Alive." It is published by Time, Inc., a division of Time Warner. This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Time Warner Inc. ...
In Australia the magazine is known as Who in order to avoid confusion with an adult publication of the same name. Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ...
People is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories, published by Time Inc..
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."
In Australia, the localised version of People is titled Who because of a pre-existing lad's mag published under the title People.
TeenPeople and ESPN Magazine, backed by well-known names and huge corporate dollars, tout fresh approaches to popular themes and are viewed as likely successes among the hundreds of new magazines that come and go every year.
TeenPeople, which goes on sale Friday, is an monthly spinoff of Time Inc.'s weekly People and is built on the same formula: Profiles of celebrities and regular folks.
TeenPeople's circulation for 1998 is projected at 500,000, compared to nearly 2.5 million for Seventeen, 2.1 million for YM and 1.6 million for Teen.