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Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is an

American magazine magnate who is the co-founder and publisher of the popular culture magazine Rolling Stone, and former owner of Men's Journal magazine. He participated in the Free Speech Movement while

attending the University of California,

Berkeley. Wenner, with his mentor Ralph J. Gleason, co-founded Rolling Stone in

1967. Later

in his career, Wenner co-founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and

has founded other publications. As a publisher and media figure, he has faced

controversy regarding Hall of Fame eligibility favoritism, the breakdown of his

relationship with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and

criticism that his magazine's reviews were biased. Wenner was born in New York

City, the son of Sim and Edward Wenner. He grew up in a secular Jewish family. His

parents divorced in 1958, and he and his sisters, Kate and Merlyn, were sent to

boarding schools. He completed his secondary education at the Chadwick School in 1963 and went on to attend the University of California,

Berkeley. Before dropping out of Berkeley in 1966, Wenner was active

in the Free Speech Movement and

produced the column "Something's Happening" in the student-run

newspaper, The Daily Californian.

With the help of his mentor, San Francisco Chronicle jazz

critic Ralph J. Gleason, Wenner

landed a job at Ramparts, a

high-circulation muckraker, where Gleason was a

contributing editor and Wenner worked on the magazine's spinoff newspaper. In

1967, Wenner and Gleason founded Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco. To get the magazine started, Wenner borrowed

$7,500 from family members and from the family of his soon-to-be wife, Jane

Schindelheim. Throughout

the 1970s and 1980s, Wenner played an integral role in popularizing writers

such as Hunter S. Thompson, Ben Fong-Torres, Paul Nelson, Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Grover Lewis, Timothy Crouse, Timothy Ferris, Joe Klein, Cameron Crowe, Joe Eszterhas and P.J. O'Rourke. He also discovered photographer Annie Leibovitz when she was a 21-year-old San Francisco Art

Institute student. Many of Wenner's proteges, such as Crowe,

credit him with giving them their biggest breaks. Tom Wolfe recognized Wenner's influence in ensuring that

his first novel, The Bonfire of the

Vanities, was completed, stating "I was absolutely frozen

with fright about getting it done and I decided to serialize it and the only

editor crazy enough to do that was Jann." In

1977, Rolling Stone shifted its base of operations from San Francisco to New York City. The magazine's circulation dipped briefly

in the late 1970s/early 1980s as Rolling Stone responded slowly in covering the

emergence of punk rock and again in the 1990s,

when it lost ground of hip hop. Wenner hired former FHM editor

Ed Needham, who was then replaced by Will Dana, to turn his flagship magazine

around, and by 2006, Rolling Stone's circulation was at an all-time high of 1.5

million copies sold every fortnight. In May 2006, Rolling Stone published its 1000th edition with a

holographic, 3-D cover modeled on The Beatles' Sgt.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Wenner has been involved in the conducting and

writing of many of the magazine's Rolling Stone Interviews. His interview subjects have included: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama for the magazine during their election

campaigns and in November 2005 had an interview with U2 rockstar Bono,

which focused on music and politics. Wenner's interview with Bono received

a National Magazine Award nomination.

Rolling Stone and Jann Wenner are chronicled in three books, Gone

Crazy and Back Again by Robert Sam Anson, Rolling Stone: The

Uncensored History, and Sticky Fingers:The Life and Times of

Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan. Weir is working

on a biography, as is poet and Beat historian Lewis MacAdams. Robin Green's memoir The Only Girl covers the

time she worked at Rolling Stone. Wenner founded the Randolph Hearst

III and Jack Ford both worked for the magazine before Wenner sold

it a year later. He also briefly managed the magazine Look and, in

1993, started the magazine Family Life. In 1985, he bought a share