David J. Pecker is the publisher of an American celebrity tabloid magazine founded in what year?
David J. Pecker David J. Pecker is the Chairman and CEO of American Media (publisher). He is the publisher of "National Enquirer", "Star", "Sun", "Weekly World News", "Globe", "Men's Fitness", "Muscle and Fitness", "Flex", "Fit Pregnancy" and "Shape". He has served in his current role at AMI since 1999 and previously served as Chairman and CEO of Hachette Filipacchi Médias. He began his career as an accountant and, at CBS Magazines, rose to vice president and controller. As the junior of four employees in a partnership, CBS Magazines was acquired in a leveraged buyout and sold to Hachette. He soon after became CEO at Hachette when the other three partners resigned.
The Sun (United Kingdom) The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since "The Sun on Sunday" was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation. As a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the "Daily Herald"; it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.