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Sidney Harman, the stereo magnate who shocked the media world when he bought Newsweek magazine for $1, died on Tuesday from complications of acute myeloid leukemia, his family said.

The performer, who’s gone from being a background dancer to one of the most successful women in the entertainment industry, now has another honor for her resume.

This is really bad. Us Weekly has published what it claims are comments made by Sarah Palin, in which the former vice presidential candidate blasts Christina Aguilera’s performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XLV.

The publisher of Playboy magazine said Monday it has agreed to a sweetened offer by founder Hugh Hefner to take the company private. The price of $6.15 a share is an 18 percent premium over Friday's closing price and values the company at about $207 million. The bid tops Hefner's offer of $5.50 per share in July.

U.S. News & World Report will cease printing its monthly magazine in 2011, according to an internal memo from editor Brian Kelly posted on the journalism website Poynter.org's Romanesko blog.

Ann Moore, the chief executive of Time Inc. -- the world's largest magazine publisher -- is stepping down from the company to be replaced by Jack Griffin, a group president of Meredith Corp., according to published reports.

Playboy readers can only imagine what it would look like if a centerfold jumped right off the page -- unless they buy the new issue, which features a 3-D centerfold

The Washington Post Company announced Wednesday that it was putting Newsweek up for sale.

2009 was a very rough year for magazines, with over 400 titles folding over the course of the year. Some were surprising, like the death of big Condé Nast brands including Portfolio, Gourmet, and Cookie; others went relatively unnoticed.

Below, see 25 magazines that folded in 2009 and vote for the ones you'll miss the most:

Reader's Digest Association Inc, whose namesake magazine has been a staple of dentists' offices for generations, said on Monday it planned to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its U.S. businesses as part of a prearranged plan with lenders to cut debt by 75 percent.