- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 55 min., 17 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Magazine publishing entrepreneur and executive Leonard Burnett was born on April 18, 1964 in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He attended the University of Michigan and transferred to Florida A&M university where he earned his B.B.A. degree in business, management and marketing in 1986. Burnett began his career as an entrepreneur in 1987, when he launched his first magazine, Urban Profile, with his classmate, Keith Clinkscales. After selling Urban Profile to Career Communications Group, Burnett helped start Vibe magazine in 1993. He served as a publisher for Vibe magazine until 1999, and then started Vanguard Media Group, the publisher of Savoy, Honey, and Heart & Soul. In 2004, Burnett created Uptown Media Group and published Uptown magazine. When Vibe was relaunched in 2009, he served as publisher for the magazine until 2012. He is considered an expert on African-American buying power, brand building, and marketing to both urban and affluent Africana-American communities.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Leonard Burnett, Jr.
- Leonard Burnett, Jr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Isaac Feldman.
- OCLC
- 1000519384
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leonard Burnett, Jr.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
025517
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Isaac Feldman.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2014 September 10.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Magazine Publishing Entrepreneur Magazine Publishing Chief Executive.
- Added Author
Burnett, Leonard E., 1964- interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Feldman, Isaac, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.