Also known as TMZ.com
TMZ is an American entertainment-focused tabloid news organization owned by Fox Corporation. It made its debut on November 8, 2005, as a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures, a division of Warner Bros., until Time Warner divested AOL in 2009. On September 13, 2021, Fox Corporation acquired TMZ from WarnerMedia for $50 million.
Key facts
- Website.name
- TMZ
- Website.logo
- TMZLogo.svg
- Website.logo_size
- 200px
- Website.caption
- Logo of TMZ.com
- Website.type
- Tabloid journalism
- Website.language
- English, Spanish
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.owner
- Fox Corporation
- Website.editor
- Harvey Levin
- Website.key_people
- Charles Latibeaudiere
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
29 sectionsContents
- Development
- Company synopsis
- Legal issues
- Contempt-of-court motion
- Photographer altercation
- Temporary block in the UK
- Branches
- ''TMZ Live''
- ''TMZ on TV''
- ''Dax Chat''
- ''TMZ Sports''
- ''TMZ France''
- Criticism
- Reporting of suicide details
- Stolen Indiana Jones items
- Story-gathering tactics
- Murder of Andre Lowe
- Death of Kobe Bryant
- Johnny Depp Vs. Amber Heard
- Death of Liam Payne
- Assassination of Charlie Kirk
- False news
- John F. Kennedy
- Lil Wayne
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Beyoncé at DNC
- References
- Further reading
- External links
TMZ is an American entertainment-focused tabloid news organization owned by Fox Corporation. It made its debut on November 8, 2005, as a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures, a division of Warner Bros., until Time Warner divested AOL in 2009. On September 13, 2021, Fox Corporation acquired TMZ from WarnerMedia for $50 million.
The name "TMZ" is derived from the initialism for "thirty-mile zone" that was historically used in the film and television industry to refer to the so-called "studio zone"—an area with a radius centered on the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. It was called the studio zone because of the number of film and television studios within it. TMZ's founder and managing editor is Harvey Levin, a lawyer-turned-journalist who was previously a legal expert for the Los Angeles television station KCBS-TV.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “TMZ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.