How David Pecker Built His Tabloid Empire AMI on Fear
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Mark Peterson/Redux
A previously unpublished profile captures the Enquirer boss at start of his reign as gossip king. ‘He likes people walking around in fear,’ says one worker. ‘He gets off on it.’
In 2001, I was commissioned to write a profile of David Pecker, the CEO of American Media Inc., the National Enquirer’s parent company. I spent the next few months writing and reporting—only to have the story spiked.
