It Hasn't Been Easy for Celebrity Magazines to Cover Elizabeth Taylor's Death

Elizabeth Taylor’s death was one of the biggest celebrity stories last week — but it’s timing caused no small amount of problems for celebrity magazines trying to make their deadlines. You’ll notice the delayed response on the newsstand, with Taylor only now popping up on many covers.

The New York Post gives a rundown of how the major magazines struggled to cover Taylor’s death in a timely fashion:

Time was actually the first weekly with a Taylor cover mention, inserting a postage-stamp-sized Taylor in the upper right-hand corner of the issue that hit last Friday, with a 10-page feature inside.

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