From the current (July 16) issue of OK! Magazine: "We often see Katie Holmes carrying around 6 year-old daughter Suri— dollies, blankets, and all. But on June 25, the little princess gave mom's back a break as they sprinted through the streets of NYC. With husband Tom Cruise shooting Oblivion in Iceland, the…
Shauna Bass is the entertainment director and former East Coast news editor at OK! Magazine. She frequently makes media appearances as an expert on reality TV. Last week, Simba, her pet Pomeranian, passed away. Sad. But Shauna's pain has been soothed by more than $5,000 in donations—most of it from people who have a…
In your autumnal Monday media column: the NYT Co's paying back Carlos Slim early, the NYO may buy Dealbreaker, Richard Spencer's OK! mag deal confirmed, Richard Siklos goes into PR, and Nikki Finke is as litigious as ever.
Rumor: former In Touch editor Richard Spencer's the new editor of OK! Magazine. Update: Confirmed.
In the constantly-contradicting world of tabloid journalism, is anyone reliable? We analyzed 20 months of reported break-ups, marriages, and pregnancies to tabulate our first-ever Tabloid Reality Index, batting averages for America's five major celebrity glossies and the rumors they monger.
In your global Wednesday media column: strongman manager buys biz show, rumors of trouble at OK! Magazine, management shuffles at Time Inc, and press freedom threatened in South Africa and Venezuela.
In your trendy Tuesday media column: another big name leaves Newsweek, ProPublica's employees are shockingly well-compensated, magazine trends examined, more freelance payment fuckery, and OK! is not OK!
New York Post media man Keith Kelly crunches the numbers for the American version of British tabloid OK!. It's lost $175.7 million in four years of existence. That's $787,000 an issue. Even the ! in the title is sad.
From sports drinks to action figures, Tiger was once an industry unto himself. The Tiger Woods economy may have crashed, but in its place we now have the Tiger's woodies economy, repackaging and selling the women who turned him on.
Getting an editorial job at OK! Magazine has proven to be similar to riding a merry-go-round where you get your head chopped off after one go-round. That said, we'd like to welcome OK!'s new editorial boss! We hear many things.
OK! magazine wanted to drum up sales with this cover about Jessica Simpson's weight loss. When Us Weekly ran the same basic cover, it was their best-selling cover of 2007 — the same year, incidentally, OK! found Jessica's "new" body.
The absurd follies at OK! Magazine, British publisher Richard Desmond's cash-hemorrhaging tabloid weekly, never seem to end. This week they're tossing a desperate "Hail Mary" by paying huge to plaster an image of a dying Michael Jackson on their cover.
On Tuesday we told you that OK! editor Jason Oliver Nixon and publisher Lori Burgess were likely to be fired within the next two weeks. Well, one of them was fired last night! Can you guess who it was?
Consulting editor Jason Oliver Nixon may yet bring civility to the man-eat-man hellscape that OK! magazine seems to have become. Nixon, who we're told is still running the show, is to be joined by editorial consultant Mark Pasetsky, the former Life & Style honcho who now operates CoverAwards.com.
It's been a while since we caught up with the sinking ship of suck that is OK! magazine. Last we checked in, people were being fired over a silly catfight, rhetorical venom was flowing like wine, and they all drowned their sorrows in margaritas after. Now big heads will roll.
Today we received a tip updating us on the shitshow that is OK! Magazine, and now tonight another tipster has shared more information, including details of a team-building margarita fest at Dos Caminos tomorrow night!
Here's something unexpected: angry insiders tipping us off about OK! Magazine's management shuffle! Jason Oliver Nixon is now running things, they say:
Earlier today we reported on the firings at OK! Magazine and at the end of that post we solicited tips on the matter. Since then, we've been flooded with information via phone and email.
Late today we received an anonymous tip that Katie Caperton and a host of others had been laid off at OK! Magazine. Now it appears that the rumors are true.
