Jann Wenner

Jann Wenner is an American magazine publisher who started Rolling Stone in 1967 with Ralph J. Gleason, and he is the former owner of Men's Journal. Born in New York City, he grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended the University of California, Berkeley before leaving in 1966. A mentor, the jazz critic Ralph J. Gleason, helped him get work at the muckraking magazine Ramparts, and he went on to give early breaks to writers such as Hunter S. Thompson and Cameron Crowe and to the photographer Annie Leibovitz. Rolling Stone shifted its base from San Francisco to New York City in 1977, and he also launched Outside and Family Life and bought a share in Us Weekly, which became a weekly in 2000. He helped establish the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, published a memoir, Like a Rolling Stone, in 2022, and holds a Norman Mailer Prize and a Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace.