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Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in print by John H. Johnson in November 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, [3] [4] the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".
Everything in the magazine was addressed to the African-American consumer. Johnson maintained that Ebony′s success was due to the positive image of African Americans that it offered. [2] In 1951, Johnson launched Tan, a "true confessions"-type magazine. In 1951, Jet, a weekly news digest, began.
In March 2015, the company offered the Ebony/Jet photo archives spanning more than 70 years, for sale [5] to reduce the company's debt. In June 2016, the company announced the sale of Ebony and Jet magazines. [32] The buyer, Clear View Group, a private equity firm based in Austin, Texas, created a new publisher called Ebony Media Corp. The ...
Robert Edward "Bob" Johnson (August 13, 1922 in Montgomery, Alabama – January 1996 in Chicago) was Associate Publisher and Executive Editor of JET Magazine.He joined the JET staff in February 1953, two years after it was founded by Publisher John H. Johnson.
In December 2020, Milwaukee Bucks alum and Black businessman Junior Bridgeman bought Ebony and Jet for $14 million from CVG. [23] Under Bridgeman, the publication stated its intention to pivot toward themes of financial literacy and building Black wealth. [23] In March 2021, the magazine relaunched in a digital format. [24] [25]
He worked as a journalist for the Atlanta Daily World from 1949 until 1953 and as city editor for JET magazine from 1952 to 1953. [2] The magazine had been established in 1945 by John H. Johnson, who founded its parent magazine, Ebony, that same year. In 1953, Bennett became associate editor of Ebony magazine and then executive editor from 1958 ...
Jet.com was an American e-commerce company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company was co-founded in 2014 by Marc Lore (who had previously sold Diapers.com to Amazon.com ), along with Mike Hanrahan and Nate Faust.
During the 1960 presidential election cycle, in an attempt to garner the support of Black voters, the campaign of John F. Kennedy attempted to buy Booker's column in Jet magazine, meaning the campaign would write the column and the magazine would publish it under Booker's byline; Booker and the publisher refused. [6]