Jann Wenner Quotes

United States, Publisher
January 7, 1946

Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is the co-founder and publisher of the popular culture biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and former owner of Men's Journal magazine. Born in New York City, Wenner graduated from Chadwick School and later attended the University of California, Berkeley. He dropped out, but while at Berkeley he participated in the Free Speech Movement. Wenner, with his mentor Ralph J. Gleason, co-founded Rolling Stone in 1967 with the help of a loan from family members and his soon-to-be wife.

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Jann Wenner
- Mind
The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand.

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- Important
- Strong

It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

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- Time
- Heart
- Fun
The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

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- Different
- High
Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

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- True
I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

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Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

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- Long
- Quality
- Design
To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

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- Business
- Fear
- Insecurity

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

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- People
- Up
I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

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- Friends
- Fun
- Pretty