Entertainment Weekly is leaving NYC

The publication will head to California in March

One World Trade Center (credit: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons)
One World Trade Center (credit: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons)

Entertainment Weekly is trading NYC for La La Land. The celebrity-obsessed publication announced that it plans to leave Time Inc.’s corporate offices across from 1 World Trade Center at 225 Liberty Street and move operations to Los Angeles.

The magazine will move into People Magazine’s West Coast offices in March, according to Crain’s.

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The move comes as Time looks to cut costs. It will relocate 40 to 45 of the publication’s 66 New York staffers to California, a spokesperson for the publication said. The move will also give EW employees access to Time Inc.’s new studio where they will produce original video programs.

“It makes a lot of sense in that covering TV is primarily what we do,” an EW staff member told Crain’s. “When the magazine was started, you couldn’t conceive of having a national publication based anywhere but New York.” [Crain’s] – Christopher Cameron