American Media, Inc., Names Bonnie Fuller Exec. Vice President/ Chief Editorial Director.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2003

David J. Pecker, Chairman, President and CEO of American Media Inc., today announced the appointment of Bonnie Fuller as Executive Vice President and Chief Editorial Director for the entire company.

Ms. Fuller

Ms. Fuller brings to AMI one of the most successful track records in publishing history:

* She started her career at the Toronto Star as a fashion reporter and then moved to Women's Wear Daily as Sportswear Editor. She returned to Canada in 1983 to become Editor In Chief of the Canadian fashion magazine Flare. During her five year tenure, she saw newsstand sales increase by 100%.

* Based on this success, she was then hired by Gruner & Jahr to take over YM. Ms. Fuller re-launched YM and increased circulation from 700,000 to 1.75 million.

* She was next recruited by Hearst to launch Marie Claire, taking newsstand sales from 0 to 500,000. Based on this achievement, Hearst named her to replace Helen Gurley Brown at their flagship woman's title, Cosmopolitan. Ms. Fuller grew newsstand sales 18%, from 1.6 million to 1.9 million in the first year. As a result of Cosmo's success, Ms. Fuller was named Ad Age Editor Of The Year.

* Conde Nast then hired her to replace another industry legend, Ruth Whitney, at Glamour. Ms. Fuller increased circulation to 2.1 million, the highest ever. In 2000, the magazine was awarded the prestigious Amnesty International Spotlight Award for its coverage of women's issues around the world.

* In March 2002, Jann Wenner brought her in to turn around US Weekly. When Ms. Fuller arrived, US averaged 274,000 copies an issue sold on the newsstand. Newsstand sales are now more than 600,000, an increase of more than 100%. For her achievements, Ms. Fuller was named Ad Age Editor Of The Year for the second time.

Ms. Fuller will oversee AMI's 20 weekly, bi-weekly and monthly magazines, 21 monthly specials, 200 mini-mags, micro-mags and digests and its paperback book division. She will be in charge of editorial for all six AMI tabloids, including The National Enquirer, Star and Globe, which collectively sell more than 3 million copies per week.

She will also oversee AMI's Consumer Magazine Division consisting of Shape, Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Natural Health, Fit Pregnancy, Flex, Country Weekly, Auto World, NOPI Street Performance Compact, the new AMI Latino Magazine Group (Mira! and the soon-to-be launched Shape En Espanol and Men's Fitness En Espanol), the single subject mini-mags, micros and digests, and the company's paperback book division. Collectively, this represents more than 240 million units in annual sales.