Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer, longtime Fox News contributor and Pulitzer Prize winner died June 21. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he was chief resident of the psychiatric consultation service at Massachusetts General Hospital, an official at HHS and a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale before embarking on his career as a political analyst and commentator. He wrote for such publications as Time, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard and the National Interest, winning his Pulitzer for essays that were published in the Washington Post. On June 8, Krauthammer publicly released a letter saying the cancer he thought he had beaten was back in a particularly virulent form. “This is the final verdict. My fight is over,” he wrote. “I leave this life with no regrets.”

AARP The Magazine

AARP the Magazine remains at the top of media and consumer research company GfK MRI’s list of the 20 most-read magazines in the U.S. With 38.6 million readers, AARP The Magazine, which is distributed for free to all paying AARP members, saw a slight uptick (+0.03 percent) in its audience—one of only three publications in the top 20 to do so. (The other two were The Costco Connection, another freely-distributed membership-based publication and monthly video game magazine Game Informer.) Coming in at second place was former number-one People, whose 35.9 million readers represented a drop of 11.9 percent. Two of the publications that Meredith currently has on the auction block, Time (16.9 million readers) and Sports Illustrated (16.4 million readers), were in the top 10. GfK MRI’s figures represent readership from September 2017 to May 2018, and record the number of individuals who read each publication as opposed to the number of copies that are sold.

Cristina Silva
Cristina Silva

Newsweek news director Cristina Silva is leaving the company. Silva came to Newsweek Media Group in 2014 as a senior editor at the company’s International Business Times. She was promoted to managing editor in 2016 and moved to the news director slot at Newsweek last year. Silva survived the wave of turmoil that swept through the Newsweek offices earlier this year, when Newsweek editor-in-chief Bob Roe, executive editor Ken Li and investigative reporters Celeste Katz and Josh Saul were all let go following a piece about the company’s ownership. While it is unclear who Silva’s successor will be, a source at the magazine told the Wrap that the company is doing an external search. According to a memo from current Newsweek editor-in-chief Nancy Cooper, Silva plans to return to freelance writing and teach as an adjunct professor at NYU.

Dick Delson
Dick Delson

Dick Delson, a publicist and awards consultant whose clients included Sylvester Stallone, Walter Matthau, Harold Robbins and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, died Sunday after a long illness. Delson was Universal’s New York-based director of publicity and subsequently served as director of publicity at Filmways Pictures and vice president, publicity at Disney. In addition to partnering with the late Murray Weissman at Weissman Delson Communications from 1998 through 2005, he had his own firm, Dick Delson & Associates. Delson helped out on Miramax campaigns for more than a decade, assisting on pictures including Pulp Fiction and Oscar best picture winner Chicago. At MCA/Universal, he worked on campaigns for several best picture winners, including The Sting and The Deer Hunter. He was 81.