Us Weekly is an American weekly celebrity and entertainment magazine based in New York City. The magazine was founded as Us, a bi-weekly, in 1977 by the New York Times Company, which sold it in 1980. It was acquired by Wenner Media in 1986, changed to the weekly format and renamed Us Weekly in 2000, and sold to American Media Inc. in 2017. Shortly afterward, then editor James Heidenry stepped down, and was replaced by Jennifer Peros. The chief content officer of American Media, Dylan Howard, oversees the publication.