SHAPIREZ Jared, Perez (inset)
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Photo: Paul R. Laurie/patrickmcmullan.com)
Former
Star reporter
Jared Shapiro has
just been named executive editor of
Life and Style. How did the American University grad, who got into the mag business in 2003, climb the masthead so quickly? Shapiro started off his career at
Us Weekly before decamping to
Star in 2003, where he served as executive assistant to AMI ice queen
Bonnie Fuller. (Presumably, he was one of those who refrained from
urinating in her soup). After being named an editor at the magazine in 2004, he
dropped Fuller for
Inside TV, published a book titled
Going Corporate: Moving Up Without Screwing Up, and then left
Inside TV to become the News & Entertainment Director at
Life & Style Weekly. This past summer, he finished up
another book, this one with
Perez Hilton, that looks
super good!
And now he's sitting pretty at Bauer with his Life & Style gig. How can you become the next Jared Shapiro? Here's your chance to learn from the master!