Culture
Rolling Stone, Music Chronicle Spanning Rock to Rap, Up for Sale
- Co-founder Jann Wenner to relinquish control after 50 years
- Wenner Media becomes latest publisher to give up on print
Rolling Stone Sale a New Beginning, Says Mediatech's Bibb
Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner is putting the magazine up for sale, marking a new chapter for the cultural bible that for half a century has spotlighted musical artists from Jimi Hendrix to Kendrick Lamar and prose from writers like Hunter S. Thompson and Matt Taibbi.
Wenner Media, one of the last family-owned media companies, would become the latest publisher to shift away from print publications after years of losing advertising and readership to online alternatives. A sale would leave the company without a print publication for the first time since Wenner created Rolling Stone in San Francisco in 1967.