is about the entertainment news wire service in london uk . for the radio station in birmingham alabama us see wenn am . this article has multiple issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . january 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message world entertainment news network type news online wire service founded london united kingdom 1989 1989 website wenn.com world entertainment news network commonly known as wenn is an entertainment text photo and video wire service provider headquartered in london with offices in los angeles new york las vegas and berlin . wenn provides breaking entertainment news images and text features to newspapers magazines radio stations television networks mobile phone company and websites including yahoo uk entertainment news 1 and imdb.com 2 contents 1 history 2 former employees 3 photographers 4 references 5 external links history edit wenn was launched as an entertainment news wire service in london in 1989 by uk newspaper journalist and abc radio news correspondent jonathan ashby . it began as the world rock news network wrnn and the company soon established a niche for itself providing music news to subscribers including mtv bbc abc and russia s daily youth newspaper komsomolskaya pravda . in 1991 the company name was changed to the world entertainment news network wenn to reflect its focus on celebrity news and photos . its picture desk opened in 1993 and a los angeles bureau was added in 1994 . a year later wenn opened a tv operation and spent 18 months interviewing international celebrities for global clients throughout europe and in japan and south africa . satellite offices followed in eastern europe japan australia and south america . in 2000 wenn sales director lloyd beiny became ceo after ashby retired . under beiny s wenn opened bureaus hubs in new york city and berlin germany former employees edit amy winehouse and dj yoda reported on celebrities in the early 2000s . other former employees include matthew wright and james desborough . 3 nme journalist alan woodhouse also had a stint at wenn in the late 1990s . 4 raymond brown now crime reporter for cambridge news also worked at wenn . photographers edit wenn relies on a team 5 of professional photographers including aaron d. settipane los angeles anthony dixon new york carrie devorah washington d.c. judy eddy las vegas c.m. wiggins chicago owen beiny los angeles patricia schlein new york dominic chan toronto carsten windhorst london daniel deme london sakura photogrrl henderson north west uk ben benjilali london ross robinson london mats andersson sweden emelie andersson sweden references edit wenn entertainment news . news from wenn . retrieved 9 december 2010 . martin lewis 3 august 2001 . the art of lying . salon.com . retrieved 18 august 2011 . topping alexandra 24 july 2011 . amy winehouse s family pay tributes as album sales surge . the guardian . retrieved 27 july 2011 . pan interview owen beiny director of paparazzi operations wenn los angeles . october 11 2007 . retrieved 9 december 2010 . external links edit wenn.com official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title world entertainment news network & oldid 736719715 categories media companies of the united kingdomentertainment companies established in 1989media companies established in 1989hidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2009all articles needing additional referencesarticles with a promotional tone from january 2010all articles with a promotional tonepages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 august 2016 at 11 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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