Jann Wenner

Jann S. Wenner was born in New York City and raised in San Francisco and Marin County. He founded Rolling Stone in 1967. Over the ensuing decades, Rolling Stone won many awards for its design, photography, public service, and journalism, and was instrumental in launching the careers of many groundbreaking journalists and photographers.  A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the youngest inductee ever in the American Society of Magazine Editor’s Hall of Fame, Wenner lives in New York City  and Idaho.