Welcome to the all-new Us Weekly. I’m Dan Wakeford, your editor-in-chief, and I’ve spent the final three months fascinated by easy methods to make this iconic American model — the print journal in addition to the web site — even higher. My journey started by listening to you, our valued readers. I found that there are lots of belongings you cherish about Us, like how we all the time carry you the large scoopy tales and enjoyable, candid superstar images of the week. However we need to offer you extra, so constructing on this, we’re excited to introduce a spread of recent options we all know you’ll love within the print version (with a lot rolling out on-line, too)…
Extra pages! We’ve added 12 pages to the journal, filled with unique superstar tales, to offer you extra bang to your buck.
Extra celebrities! We’re delivering extra interviews than ever earlier than with the celebs you like, like Glen Powell, Selma Blair and Kyle MacLachlan, who all wished to be a part of our relaunch problem.
Extra belief! In a world the place you not know who or what to consider, we take credibility and the reality very severely, so you may belief the tales we carry you.
Extra pleasure! Life is tougher than ever, so we’re making Us extra enjoyable, lighthearted and optimistic to carry pleasure to your day.
Extra smarts! I’m an enormous believer that the upper your IQ, the better the necessity for gossip. Indulging your self within the Hollywood world simply reveals that you simply’re keen on life, folks and relationships. Celeb tales can train us so much about ourselves and the world round us, so our proficient journalists will carry a sharper, brighter focus to our reporting.
Extra Stars Are Simply Like Us! We love celebrities not as a result of they’re well-known however as a result of their tales replicate our personal lives. We discuss them with the identical compassion we’d present our associates, however we additionally tease them in the identical heat method we might rib our friends. So, we’ve prolonged this part because it focuses on what all of us have in frequent.
Way more leisure! Leisure brings us collectively, and there has by no means been a extra thrilling time in popular culture than now. The limitless digital panorama has given us an explosion of latest music, movie, TV, podcasts and books. Nevertheless it’s so much, proper?! We’ll curate solely the perfect stuff that we all know you’ll love to look at, hearken to, see and do. Then we’ll collect round all of your popular culture obsessions and keep it up the storytelling when your reveals cease.
We love what we do, however we’re doing this for you, so please let me know whether or not you just like the adjustments we’ve made. E-mail me at editor@usmagazine.com. Take pleasure in, Dan
Watch the video above and skim extra on this week’s relaunch problem of the brand-new Us Weekly, that includes 12 extra pages, a redesigned look and new franchises you’ll love — on newsstands now.
