From 2008 until early 2011, she was chief operating officer of Condé Nast Digital simultaneously, beginning in 2010, she was COO of the Fairchild Fashion Group. Previously, Chirichella spent seven years at Condé Nast, where she served in a number of executive positions. She joined Hearst Magazines as senior vice president and chief financial officer in November 2011, overseeing the company’s strategic financial planning and reporting. Chirichella is a member of the Hearst board of directors. and nearly 250 international magazine editions, after serving as executive vice president, chief financial officer and director of global operations for Hearst Magazines. Josh Rottenberg contributed to this report.Debi Chirichella is senior vice president of Hearst and president of Hearst Magazines, one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines, with more than 25 brands in the U.S. People en Español debuted in 1996 as a Spanish-language version of the flagship celebrity title People. Health is a lifestyle title aimed at women, launched by Meredith in 1981.
InStyle, which focuses on celebrity style and fashion advice, has been in print since 1994. “For example, who ever turns an internet splash page into a poster? But that used to happen regularly with iconic magazine covers.” Neuhaus is skeptical a digital version of EW will have the same impact. When an amazing picture and strong cover-lines combined at the just-perfect moment - bang - everyone was pleased. Hollywood got that, so they would, for the most part, try to cooperate with EW on timing. A week early or late would make all the difference. “The best ones stood out - particularly if you had the right star on the cover at the exact right moment. “Not so long ago, that you’d walk up to a newsstand and be confronted by hundreds of covers,” said Cable Neuhaus, a former general editor and Los Angeles bureau chief for Entertainment Weekly. The magazine’s covers have long been coveted newsstand real estate for studios and networks pushing their new movies and television shows. Parents had the longest run among the axed print titles, first founded in 1926 as a guide to child rearing.Įntertainment Weekly has been a pop culture staple since it was launched by Time Inc. Vogel might get some disagreement on that point from the 200 employees expected to lose their jobs as part of the move. Younger viewers aren’t watching TV, but ad-makers are finding a way to reach them through the big game. The deal closed in December.Ĭompany Town In the streaming era, Super Bowl 2022 commercials will be working overtime The shutdown comes only months after IAC acquired the titles from Meredith for $1.8 billion in October. The consumer shift to digital accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The move, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, reflects the declining circulation and revenue for print media as audiences continue to turn to digital devices for their content. “It is not news to anyone that there has been a pronounced shift in readership and advertising from print to digital, and as a result, for a few important brands, print is no longer serving the brand’s core purpose.”
“We have said from the beginning, buying Meredith was about buying brands, not magazines or websites,” Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel wrote in a memo to employees obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The New York-based digital media company told employees that EW, InStyle, EatingWell, Health, Parents and People en Español will be available only online starting April. Barry Diller’s IAC/Interactive Corp is ending the print editions of Entertainment Weekly, InStyle and four other titles acquired from Meredith Corporation last year, turning them into digital-only properties.
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