Celebrity-mag editor signs new $1.5m deal

Bonnie Fuller, editor of Star, the US celebrity magazine, has agreed a new three-year deal for £1.5m, plus performance bonuses. Her fate has been swinging in the wind along with the fortunes of her beleaguered employer, American Media. The publisher closed three magazines earlier this year, announced the sale of five more, laid off 9% of its employees and sent the staff of its ailing National Enquirer back to Florida after just a year in New York. By contrast Fuller's magazine has done well, building a 1.4m circulation, a rise of 15% since 2004. (Via NYT > Media and Advertising)