Oprah Winfrey has reportedly directed editors of O: The Oprah Magazine to plan for covers without her in six months time. The star, who has appeared on every cover since the monthly’s launch in 2000, apparently wants to take a break from the photo shoots. The New York Post (Aug. 21, 2008)
Oprah Winfrey is not expected to introduce Barack Obama or take any other leading role, at this month’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, either because she doesn’t want to steal the spotlight (the idea advanced by Oprah associate Gayle King) or because her TV ratings suffered from her very public support of Obama in the primaries [...]
She’s not taking on water, but Oprah appears to be sailing into, perhaps, a touch of foul weather. That any of the multifarious enterprises Oprah Winfrey captains isn’t doing stupendously well is news, so here is the NYT’s take on what dips in audience numbers for Oprah’s daytime TV show and magazine may mean [...]
Amy Gross leaves after a highly successful, eight-year run at the helm of what is believed to be Hearst’s second most profitable magazine. When asked about her future plans, she said, “I plan to go on retreats … I’m not jealous of anything or anybody except people who go on retreats.” The New York Post (Apr. [...]
In what may be P&G’s biggest public-relations ad play ever, the CPG giant will donate one tetanus shot to an expectant mother for each package of specially marked Pampers diapers sold in August. Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey announced the Unicef campaign on television show, along with Salma Heyek, who is spokesperson for the effort. The star [...]
The suit alleges that Harpo Productions failed to adequately protect audience members before a Dec. 5, 2006, taping of the Oprah Winfrey show. Plaintiff Orit Greenberg claims she suffered “severe and permanant” injuries as a result of a disorderly “seat-yourselves” policy. Chicago Sun-Times (Mar. 19, 2008)
Covering all things Oprah, the blog will be written by Mark Bieganski, an online content “guru” for the newspaper, and apparently someone who covers his subject with religious devotion. The new blog is available at: http://blogs.suntimes.com/oprah/
That’s O-W-N for the ‘Oprah Winfrey Network.’ Howard Stern’s boast that he is the “King of All Media” may be questionable, but can anyone doubt that Oprah really is the Queen? Today, Harpo Productions, Ms. Winfrey’s production company, and Discovery Communications LLC. announced that they are forming a 50-50 joint venture to launch the network, which will [...]
Oprah Winfrey reaches more than 8 million people every weekday on TV and more than 2.5 million readers a month in print. She has earned the deep affection and respect of many of these people, for telling it like it is and by scrupulously avoiding financial gain from the books and other products she talks [...]