Editing Tiger Beat (section)

==History and profile==
''Tiger Beat'' was founded in September 1965<ref>{{cite news|author=Alex French|title=The Very First Issues of 19 Famous Magazines|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/50299/very-first-issues-19-famous-magazines|access-date=August 10, 2015|work=Mental Floss}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Tweens, Teens, and Magazines|url=https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/tweens-teens-and-magazines-fact-sheet.pdf|publisher=Kaiser Family Foundation|access-date=19 August 2015|date=January 2013|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208234750/https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/tweens-teens-and-magazines-fact-sheet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> by Charles "Chuck" Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host [[Lloyd Thaxton]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lloyd Thaxton|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857191/?ref_=nv_sr_1|publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref> The magazine featured [[teen idol]] [[gossip]] and carried articles on [[film|movie]]s, [[music]] and [[fashion]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwkEAAAAMBAJ&q=tiger+beat+magazine+founder&pg=PA10|title=Billboard|date=May 5, 1973|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref> Charles Laufer described the magazine's content as "guys in their 20s singing 'La La' songs to 13-year-old girls."<ref>{{cite web|title=From Dylan to Bieber: A 'Tiger Beat' Cover Odyssey|url=http://flavorwire.com/170380/from-dylan-to-bieber-a-tiger-beat-cover-odyssey-1965-present|publisher=Flavorpill Media|access-date=2017-04-07}}</ref>

A distinctive element of ''Tiger Beat'' was its covers, which featured cut-and-paste [[collage]]d photos – primarily [[head shot]]s – of current teen idols. For the first twelve issues, Thaxton's face appeared at the top corner of the cover (at first the magazine was titled ''Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat''), and he also contributed a column.<ref>{{cite news|title=Zany host of popular television dance show|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-08-me-thaxton8-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=2008-10-08|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref> After 2016, the magazine cover featured a single image of a celebrity.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=How Teen Mag Tiger Beat Is Evolving to Target Celeb-Obsessed Gen Z-ers|url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/how-teen-mag-tiger-beat-evolving-target-celeb-obsessed-gen-z-ers-170114/|magazine=AdWeek|date=2016-03-15|access-date=2018-07-15}}</ref>

During the 1960s, The Laufer Company leveraged the [[teen magazine|teen]] market dominated by ''Tiger Beat'' with similar magazines, including ''FaVE'' and ''Monkee Spectacular.''<ref>{{cite web|title=Keeping Up With Your Favs – The Rise of Tiger Beat and The Laufer Company Magazines|url=http://www.loti.com/sixties_music/tiger_beat_magazine.htm|publisher=Loti.com|access-date=2017-04-07}}</ref> In 1998, ''Tiger Beat'' was sold by publisher [[Macfadden Publications|Sterling/MacFadden]] to [[RentPath|Primedia]], which in 2003 sold the magazine to Scott Laufer, the son of magazine founder Charles Laufer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-21-ca-5551-story.html|title=Names Change, but Hearts Beat the Same|date=July 21, 1998|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> Until 2014, Laufer also produced the similar teen magazine ''[[Bop (magazine)|Bop]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/technology/28iht-tween.1.5893663.html ''The New York Times''] 28 May 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A farewell to Bop|url=http://jezebel.com/a-farewell-to-bop-the-classic-teen-magazine-1983-2014-1610326575|publisher=Gizmodo Media Group|date=2014-07-24|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref> After 2015, ''Tiger Beat'' was published by [[Los Angeles]]–based Tiger Beat Media, Inc.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tiger Beat Media, Inc.|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=314415091|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=2017-04-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Ember| first = Sydney| title = Tiger Beat Magazine Is Revived With a New Vision| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2018-11-16| date = 2017-12-21| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/business/media/tiger-beat-magazine-is-revived-with-a-new-vision.html}}</ref>