Dead editor In the hours before he was found dead, two people saw the body of Colfax editor A. Thomas Homer on the office floor, but neither raised an alarm because they thought he was sleeping, officials said.
New Star shines Bonnie Fuller, whose eye-catching covers helped pump up sales at Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Us Weekly magazines, is ready to unveil the newly revamped Star tabloid.
Stewart defections A senior art director and a former food editor at Martha Stewart's flagship magazine have joined rival Lifetime, publisher Hearst Magazines said on Wednesday.
John Sack dies John Sack, a war correspondent who wrote for Esquire, The New Yorker and other publications during his 50-year career, has died. Esquire editor in chief David Granger called Sack "one of the rare giants of magazine journalism."
Chinese Maxim The young men's lifestyle magazine Maxim plans to begin publishing in China, hoping its "beer-and-babes" formula will find an audience in the world's most populous market.
Blair book lawsuits The publisher of a book by disgraced journalist Jayson Blair has sued the New York Daily News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for breaking an embargo on publication of excerpts.
Driven to tabs The publisher of The National Enquirer and Muscle & Fitness magazine has hired a General Motors Corp. marketing executive as a media consultant.
Raines reflects Nearly a year after losing his job as executive editor of The New York Times, Howell Raines is defending his efforts to shake up the newspaper's culture and criticizing the paper's review into its own practices, saying it represents "an institution in denial."
Editor Bonnie Fuller on her big redesign: "Star had not been growing a big enough next generation of readers -- they had not gotten the tabloid habit." Read the story
Fiction bestsellers
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"The Da Vinci Code"
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"The Last Juror"
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"The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
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"3rd Degree"
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"Angels & Demons"
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"Bad Business"
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"Princess of Ireland"
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"Seduced by Moonlight"
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"The Birth of Venus"
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"A Death in Vienna"
For week ending March 21. Source: Wall Street Journal
U2 photo book HarperCollins has secured worldwide rights for a full-color U2 photo retrospective book. The volume will likely be penned by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame curator Jim Henke.
Updike wins PEN/Faulkner Award John Updike added another honor to his list on Monday when he was named the winner of the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his short story collection "The Early Stories."
Clarke's take on terror war a runaway hit After only a week, Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" is already in its sixth printing with 550,000 copies.
Contrary to popular belief, the growth of "reality" shows has not come at the expense of scripted shows. According to a study, it's movies, games shows and specials that have shrunk.
Thomas Mottola on the music industry's woes: "The technology needs to evolve. (But) the other 50% is that the music has to get better." See what the former head of Sony Music says about his new gig at Casablanca.
