A360media

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A360 Media, LLC (a360media), formerly American Media, Inc. (AMI), was an American magazine publisher. Originally formed in 1988, it primarily owned entertainment, lifestyle, and tabloid magazines. It was originally formed as the parent company of the National Enquirer following the death of its previous owner Generoso Pope Jr. AMI's holdings expanded considerably in the 1990s and 2000s, with the company acquiring other supermarket tabloids such as Globe, the National Examiner, and Star, as well as other magazines such as In Touch Weekly, Men's Journal, Soap Opera Digest, Us Weekly, and Woman's World among others. In 2014, AMI was acquired by Chatham Asset Management; under its ownership, AMI began to make further acquisitions and place a larger focus on its "glossy" publications, while consequently pursuing the sale of its tabloids. In the mid-2010s, AMI and its then-CEO David Pecker were controversially engaged in "catch and kill" tactics to protect Donald Trump during his 2016 U.S....

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