Janice Min, formerly of Us Weekly, has reemerged at The Hollywood Reporter as their editorial director. Janice Min was famous for turning Us Weekly into a powerhouse magazine.

Min was editor in chief of Us Weekly magazine from 2003-09. During her tenure, she more than doubled the weekly circulation, increased advertising sales, launched and served as editor in chief of Usmagazine.com and garnered many of publishing’s most prestigious awards, including Adweek’s Editor of the Year.

“Janice dramatically transformed the landscape of entertainment journalism, and she is perfectly suited to lead The Hollywood Reporter’s business-to-influencer coverage of the global entertainment industry,” said Richard Beckman, CEO of e5 Global Media, owner of THR.

Asked why she wanted to come aboard, Min said Wednesday she was “sold” on the idea after speaking with Beckman.

“The vision he laid out for the brand was really exciting to me, and I loved the idea of re-establishing something from the ground up — and for something that I feel strongly has huge potential.

“If you look at the space as it exists now, there seems to be a huge opportunity to grow and dominate and really start reaching this wide audience of influencers that I feel already reads The Hollywood Reporter, but now will become addicted to it.”

While plans for expanding the THR brand are not complete, Min said the idea is to reach a larger following of influential people.

“I think that whole idea of the influence that Hollywood has over a lot of different areas is important to tons of industries,” she said. “I’d like to think of the person reading THR as the first to know. And I think there will be some consumers who come along with that.

“We are living in an age where boxoffice grosses are important to regular people; the Conan-Leno debacle was essentially a trade story that became a consumer story. People know who Ari Emanuel is thanks to ‘Entourage.’ I think you could almost say that this is a byproduct of celebrity culture, but there’s a lot more interest in ‘how the sausage is made,’ the behind-the-scenes players.”

Min joined Us in 2002 as executive editor. Before that, she was assistant managing editor at InStyle, where she was instrumental in launching several successful newsstand special issues, and she oversaw InStyle Weddings and InStyle Makeover.

Min also held positions at Life magazine and People, where she began her editorial career after receiving a graduate degree from Columbia Journalism School and a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.

Min will reside in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Janice Min is the former US Weekly editor-in-chief who reportedly made $2M a year and at one point in time, her monthly paycheck was more than her husband’s annual salary.  Ka-ching!  In the New York Post this week, Janice Min who is Korean-American, shares her secrets to having a successful marriage while being the female breadwinner.  She notes that nearly a quarter of American wives serve as the family breadwinner but to her estimation, 60% of them are annoyed by that status.

To me, marriage wasn’t a goal, but something that happens to some and not others. I probably filled my mind with thoughts about being a journalist and working in media more than anything else.

Now I look back at that decision and realize what I was really resisting was the idea of turning over my independence — financial and otherwise — to someone else. It wasn’t my style. But it has never shaped my worldview. I dare you to find another editor in New York who has assigned more stories and photo shoots involving rings, wedding dresses and romance than I. I am a staunch believer in love, marriage and family, but not that a woman can’t out-earn a man or that a man shouldn’t change the diapers.

Are you an Alpha Woman?  Read more at the New York Post.

Janice Min, the powerful editor-in-chief of US Weekly is calling it quits.  She is stepping down next week after a long and successful tenure at US Weekly, where she was the architect in transforming the weekly magazine into one of the premiere publications on the rack.  During her tenure, circulation more than doubled and US Weekly started to challenge long-time leader People magazine.  The magazine had more than $300 million in revenue last year.  So where is she going next?  What’s she going to do for the next chapter of her life?

“As long as I’m here, I can’t really even begin to think about what I’m going to do next,” she said. “But I’m 39 and I’d like to have another career. I felt like I’d done every possible thing at Us Weekly to make it successful.”

We found a video from a couple years ago of SuChin Pak of MTV interviewing Janice Min.