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ABCs: OK! defies drops in women's weekly market
From Media Guardian. Posted August 14 2008, 2.27pm
Magazine ABCs: Nothern & Shell's OK! Magazine defied the trend of the woman's weekly magazine market in the first half of 2008 by growing its readership year on year while rival titles plummeted. By Oliver Luft (more)

ABCs: OK! defies slump in women's weekly market
From Media Guardian. Posted August 14 2008, 2.27pm
Magazine ABCs: Nothern & Shell's OK! Magazine defied the trend of the woman's weekly magazine market in the first half of 2008 by growing its circulation year on year while rival titles plummeted. By Oliver Luft (more)

Magazine ABCs: OK! takes top spot in celebrity weekly race
From Press Gazette. Posted February 14 2008, 12.00am
Northern & Shell’s OK! leapt into the top spot in the celebrity weeklies market, over taking former Emap title Closer in the latest circulation figures for the last six months of 2007. (more)

OK! takes on Hello! in Spain
From Media Guardian. Posted January 28 2008, 3.38pm
OK! magazine will launch a Spanish-language edition later this year, striking into the heartland of rival celebrity weekly Hello!. By Stephen Brook (more)

OK! launches Turkish edition
From Media Guardian. Posted January 16 2008, 3.02pm
OK! magazine launched in Turkey today, marking the 14th international edition of the popular celebrity weekly. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons (more)

OK! rapped over 'reckless' photo story
From Media Guardian. Posted January 9 2008, 11.46am
OK! magazine breached the privacy code after identifying a woman attending Alcoholics Anonymous, the press watchdog has found. By Stephen Brook (more)

OK! sues Heat over Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy story
From Press Gazette. Posted January 9 2008, 12.00am
OK! magazine's publishers, Northern and Shell, have claimed breach of copyright against Heat magazine over its coverage of news that pop singer Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister is pregnant. (more)

OK! breached PCC code by identifying AA attendee
From Press Gazette. Posted January 9 2008, 12.00am
OK! magazine has breached the privacy clause of the Editors' Code of Practice when it identifyed an Alcoholics Anonymous attendee, the PCC has found. (more)

Former OK! editor joins Eve
From Media Guardian. Posted December 12 2007, 3.18pm
Haymarket has recruited former OK! editor Nic McCarthy to head up Eve magazine from January, replacing Sara Cremer on the women's monthly. By Jemima Kiss (more)

Former OK! editor takes the helm at Eve
From Press Gazette. Posted December 12 2007, 12.00am
Former OK! editor Nic McCarthy has been appointed editor of Haymarket Consumer Media’s women’s monthly, Eve. (more)

OK! magazine to launch German edition
From Media Guardian. Posted November 16 2007, 12.58pm
OK! magazine is preparing a German-language version of the title - its 14th international edition in just three years. By Ben Dowell (more)

OK! pays out for Hasselhoff story
From Media Guardian. Posted August 24 2007, 1.00am
1.30pm: OK! has been ordered to pay libel damages to David Hasselhoff after publishing a false story that he was 'off his face' in an LA nightclub. By Jemima Kiss. (more)

OK! pays out to Hasselhoff over 'off his face' claim
From Press Gazette. Posted August 24 2007, 12.00am
Baywatch star David Hasselhoff has won undisclosed libel damages from OK! magazine over claims that he was drunk and abusive at a nightclub. (more)

Lords return £1 million to OK! in Catherine Zeta Jones case
From Press Gazette. Posted May 2 2007, 10.20am
The final curtain was drawn today on the long battle between Hello! and OK! over wedding pics of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. (more)

OK! expands into Mexico and Russia
From Press Gazette. Posted November 7 2006, 12.01pm
12pm: Richard Desmond’s celebrity weekly OK! is launching new editions in Mexico and Russia. (more)

American OK! hires new publisher
From Press Gazette. Posted September 21 2006, 12.00am
The American version of OK! has hired Tom Morrissey as its third publisher in just over a year. (more)

OK! ceases Singapore operations
From Brand Republic. Posted September 4 2006, 9.09am
Catcha Publishing has terminated circulation of OK! magazine in Singapore with immediate effect, after beginning operation just one year ago. According to magazine chiefs, the monthly celebrity and entertainment title will continue to be published in Malaysia. "Singapore was very competitive and we tried our best, but in the end we decided to focus our efforts in Malaysia," explained Luke Elliott, head of publishing at Catcha. "We're very bullish about the Malaysia market." (more)

Desmond's pay falls after OK! losses
From The Times. Posted September 2 2006, 12.00am
RICHARD DESMOND, the newspaper and magazine proprietor, saw his pay tumble 47 per cent to just over half a million pounds a week last year, following heavy losses incurred launching OK! magazine in the United States.... (more)

Toksvig back in UK after US OK! launch
From Brand Republic. Posted July 11 2006, 11.07am
LONDON - Christian Toksvig, the Northern & Shell executive who oversaw the US launch of celebrity weekly OK!, has quit the US. It is understood he will be working on Express Newspapers' bid to distribute a free London paper. (more)

OK! USA launch boss leaves to launch UK freebie
From Press Gazette. Posted July 10 2006, 9.19am
The American edition of OK celebrates its first birthday in America next month – and the man who has been running it is returning to London. (more)

Jordan’s wedding puts OK! in the pink
From Press Gazette. Posted February 23 2006, 12.00am
The celebrity magazine market has witnessed a change at the top, with IPC’s Now finding itself in third place in the highly contested sector, writes Zoe Smith. (more)

ABCs: Weekly sector soars as OK! cashes in on Jordan’s wedding
From Press Gazette. Posted February 16 2006, 2.45pm
OK! magazine put on over 100,000 new readers last year, many drawn in by exclusive pics of glamour model Jordan’s pink wedding, catapulting it to the top of the women’s weekly sector. (more)

Hasselhoff wins 'drunk' libel case against 'OK!'
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
The former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff won substantial but undisclosed damages at the High Court yesterday after winning a libel case against two magazines who alleged that he was "off his face" in a Los Angeles nightclub. (more)