- Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Playboy" magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism - Al Goldstein
Alvin "Al" Goldstein (b. January 10 1936, New York City) is an American publisher and pornographer. Goldstein founded the tabloid "Screw" magazine. He was also the host and producer (with radio personality Alex Bennett) of "Midnight Blue", a New York leased-public access cable television series. His company, Milky Way Productions, home of "Screw" and his long-running cable show, "Midnight Blue", went into bankruptcy in 2004. - Martha Stewart
Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues. - Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (pronounced like "loose") (April 3, 1898 - February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher. - David Lawrence
David Lawrence (December 25, 1888 - February 11, 1973) was a conservative newspaperman and former student of Woodrow Wilson's at Princeton University. After Wilson's reelection as U.S. President in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson fired Irish-American staffmember Joe Tumulty in 1916 to placate anti-Catholic sentiment particularly from his wife and his advisor Colonel Edward M. House. - Nat Fleischer
Nat Fleischer Born, November 3, 1887 in New York. Died, June 25, 1972. He was a noted American boxing writer. Fleischer inaugurated, in 1922, the "Ring Magazine" publication. He led that magazine, as editor in chief, for fifty years till his death in 1972. In 1942, Fleischer began to publish the magazine's annual record book and boxing encyclopedia, which was published until 1990. - Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carter (born 14 July 1949) is a Canadian-born American journalist and author. He is editor of "Vanity Fair". He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen, the satirical monthly magazine "Spy" in 1986. Carter began his career at "Time" as a writer-trainee where he met Andersen. After "Spy" closed down, Carter would become editor at the "New York Observer" before being invited to "Vanity Fair" to take over from Tina Brown, … - H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore." He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century. - Louis Rossetto
Louis Rossetto (born 1949) is an American journalist. He is best known as the founder and former publisher of "Wired magazine". Rossetto was born and grew up on Long Island, New York. He went to Columbia University as an undergraduate and later returned for an MBA. In the early 1970s, he wrote a novel called "Takeover." Several years later, he ghostwrote a book about the making of the film "Caligula" called "Ultimate Porno". - Legs McNeil
Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (b. 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut), is the co-founder and a writer for "Punk Magazine". He is also a former senior editor at "Spin Magazine", and the founder and editor of "Nerve" magazine (print only; 1992). - Bob Guccione Jr.
Robert Charles Guccione Jr., (born 1956), the son of Bob Guccione, is best known for founding the music magazine "Spin". He launched the magazine in 1985 with a loan from his father, who attempted to wrest control of the magazine from him two years later. After this bid proved unsuccessful Guccione, Sr. left the project, forcing his son to find investors to pay off the loan. These events resulted in an estrangement of the pair which lasted for a decade. Guccione Jr. - Tyler Brûlé
Jayson Tyler Brûlé is a Canadian-born journalist, entrepreneur and magazine publisher. The son of Canadian football star Paul Brûlé, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1989 and trained as a journalist with the BBC. He subsequently wrote for "The Guardian", "Stern", "The Sunday Times" and "Vanity Fair". After being shot by a sniper while covering the Afghanistan war in March 1994 and losing the use of his left hand, … - Steven Brill
Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950 in Queens, New York) is best known as the founder of Clear Registered Traveler, the New York-based startup airport security fast-pass company. He is the creator of a magazine with a critical eye to the media, "Brill's Content". He also launched the now-defunct Contentville.com, which was to be a clearinghouse for the buying and selling of web text, news, and info of all sorts. - Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of "Colors" magazine. Kalman was born in Budapest and became a U.S. resident in 1956, after he and his family fled Hungary to escape the Soviet invasion. He later attended NYU, dropping out after one year of Journalism classes. In the 1970s Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. - Christopher Kimball
Christopher Kimball is founder, editor, and publisher of "Cook's Illustrated" magazine (formerly "Cook's Magazine"). He is the author of "The Cook's Bible", "The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook", "Dear Charlie", and "The Dessert Bible". He is a columnist for the "New York Daily News" and the Boston-based "TAB" newspapers. He also hosts the syndicated PBS cooking show "America's Test Kitchen". - Marvin Scott Jarrett
Marvin Scott Jarrett, Founder of "Ray Gun magazine" and later became the editor-in-chief of the "Nylon magazine". His risk taking, extremely cutting edge philosophy towards editorial choices and graphic imagery is generally considered to have been highly influential to what the traditional media termed "Generation X". The sister publication to Ray Gun (which was primarily focused on alternative music) was Bikini Magazine, … - Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 - February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. Hadden got his start in newspaper writing at the Hotchkiss Record, a newspaper at the Hotchkiss prep school. At Yale, Hadden was elected to the staff of the Yale Daily News and later served as the paper's chairman twice (1917-1918 and 1919-1920). Luce was the News' managing editor both times. - Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was an English politician and writer. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded "The Spectator" magazine. - Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele (bap. March 12, 1672 - September 1, 1729) was an Irish writer and politician, remembered, along with his friend, Joseph Addison, as co-founder of "The Spectator" magazine. Steele was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Charterhouse School, where he first met Addison. He went on to Merton College, Oxford, then with joined the Life Guards of the Household Cavalry. He disliked British Army life, and his first published work, … - John Ames Mitchell
Publisher, architect, artist, novelist, mystic, mystery: John Ames Mitchell (1844-1918) was a Renaissance man who kept to himself but influenced many. A Harvard educated architect who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris Mr. Mitchell founded the original Life magazine in 1883. Much more like today's New Yorker than the Life of the later 20th Century, Mitchell's magazine discovered and encouraged many fine writers and artists at the turn of the 20th Century, … - Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher. Arthur C. Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1924, and grew up in Detroit. After spending two years in the Army, Danto studied art and history at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) and then pursued graduate study in philosophy at Columbia University. From 1949 to 1950, Danto studied in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, … - Stephen Osborne
Stephen Osborne (born 1947 in Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut)) is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of "Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World", and the editor of "Geist" magazine. He currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was the winner of the inaugural Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing in 2004. - Rufus Porter
Rufus Porter (May 1, 1792 - August 13, 1884) was an American painter, inventor, and founder of "Scientific American" magazine. - David Bentley
David Bentley is a Canadian businessman from Halifax, Nova Scotia who has been involved in print media since the 1970s. Born in England, Bentley emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1966 - Daniel Filipacchi
Daniel Filipachi is the son of Henri Filipacchi, a director at Hachette and the inventor of Hachette's "Livre de Poche" brand of pocketbooks. He was for many years a photographer for Paris Match magazine and friend of René Char, as well as a jazz concert promoter and founder of Mood Records. He was also an associate of publisher Franck Ténot. He then became deputy chairman of Hachette Filipacchi Publication, the worlds largest magazine and publishing group. - Ted Byfield
Edward Bartlett "Ted" Byfield (born ca. 1929) is an Alberta conservative journalist, publisher and editor. He founded the "Alberta Report" and "Western Report" newsmagazines. Born in Toronto, Byfield moved with his parents to Washington, D.C. at the age of 17. He began his journalism career as a copy boy for the "Washington Post". He returned to Canada in 1948 and worked at the "Ottawa Journal" and "Timmins Daily Press". - Ralph Ginzburg
Ralph Ginzburg (October 28, 1929 - July 6, 2006) was an American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist. He was best known for publishing books and magazines on erotica and art and for his conviction in 1963 for violating federal obscenity laws. - John Shuttleworth
John Shuttleworth can be: * John Shuttleworth, the name of a fictional character created by Graham Fellows * John Shuttleworth, the founder of The Mother Earth News magazine - Mark Lemon
Mark Lemon (November 30, 1809 - May 23, 1870) was the editor of "Punch", born in London, England. He had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London. At the same time he contributed to a variety of magazines and newspapers, and founded and edited the "Field". - Edward K. Thompson
Edward K. Thompson (1907 - October 1996) American writer and editor. The "Smithsonian Magazine" called him "one of the great editors of the last half [of the 20th] century." He was the editor of LIFE from its early days as a weekly and was the founding editor of "Smithsonian Magazine". - Colab
Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects. Colab was formed in 1978 after a series of open meetings. Throughout its roughly ten years of activity, Colab was distinguished from contemporary New York artists' groups by its regular open meetings and open membership. Among the group's numerous accomplishments include the New Cinema screening room for punk and no wave films (1979); the Times Square Show, … - Leo Margulies
Leo Margulies (b. June 22 1900, Brooklyn, New York, USA - d. December 26 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American editor and publisher of science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines. - Willoughby Sharp
Willoughby Sharp (b. 1936, New York City), the co-founder, with writer/filmmaker Liza Bear, of Avalanche magazine (1970-1976), is an internationally known artist, independent curator, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist. - Georges Bernier
Georges Bernier or Le Professeur Choron as he was more commonly known, was a French humorist and founder of "Hara Kiri magazine". He was orphaned by his father at 11 years and without a proper education, he vacillated between many jobs before fighting in the Indochina Wars for 28 months. On his return, he worked in the press, and rose through the ranks to take the position of Head of Sales of a satirical newspaper, … - Thomas Gibson Bowles
Thomas Gibson Bowles, the founder of the magazines "The Lady" and the English "Vanity Fair", and the maternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. He was the illegitimate offspring of Thomas Milner Gibson and a servant girl named Susannah. He attended the University of London for a year. His father gave him a yearly stipend of £90 and helped him find a job at Somerset House. - Abraham Lubelski
Abraham Lubelski (born 1940) is an American contemporary artist and founder of the NYArts Magazine. He was born in Siberia, USSR, and emigrated to the United States with his parents, becoming a U. S. citizen in 1954. He is widely known as a media artist and as a curator. .He is also active as a lecturer and panelist. He has worked on paintings, conceptual projects, theater set designs and installations. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2001. - Archibald Constable
Archibald Constable (February 24, 1774 - July 21, 1827), was a Scottish publisher. He was born at Carnbee, Fife, as the son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie. In 1788 Archibald was apprenticed to Peter Hill, an Edinburgh bookseller, but in 1795 he started in business for himself as a dealer in rare books. He bought the "Scots Magazine" in 1801, and John Leyden, the orientalist, became its editor. - Simon Donald
Simon Donald is a co-founder and co-editor of the British comic magazine "Viz". He set up the magazine in 1979 with his brother Chris from a bedroom in Newcastle. His most famous creation for the magazine is probably Sid the Sexist. When Chris quit as editor in 1999, Simon took up the role of co-editor along with Graham Dury, Simon Thorp, Davey Jones and Alex Collier. He and Alex left the magazine in 2003. - Rudy Vanderlans
Rudy VanderLans, founder of Emigre , said in an interview with Speak Up, “Perusing the visuals is a kind of ‘reading’ also. It requires a certain visual literacy to appreciate looking at reproductions of graphic design.” As professionals endowed with creating visuals, our aversion to assimilating, understanding and willingness to learn from visuals seems surprising at best, hypocritical at worst. - John Bayne MacLean
Lieutenant Colonel John Bayne Maclean (26 September 1862 - 25 September 1950) was a Canadian publisher. He founded "Maclean's Magazine", the "Financial Post" and the "Maclean Publishing Company", later known as Maclean-Hunter. He was born in Crieff, Ontario (near Guelph). Maclean's father, Andrew Maclean, was a Presbyterian minister in Puslinch Township who had immigrated to Canada from Scotland.
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