Jeffrey Ressner

Ressner was born in New Jersey in 1958. He was raised in the town of Lakewood, and graduated in 1975. He was a co-founder of an underground publication at his high school. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1979. He relocated to Los Angeles and began his career as a messenger for The Hollywood Reporter, by covering music in the media, during the mid-1980s.^[1] A breakthrough in his career began in 1988, when he became senior writer for Rolling Stone magazine.^[2] He became West Coast bureau chief for Us Weekly in the late 1980s. He joined Time magazine in 1993 and remained there until his retirement in 2007.^[3]

Ressner died in Santa Monica, California, on June 26, 2014, at age 56, of heart arrhythmia.^[3]