In “Waiting for Britney Spears,” Jeff Weiss looks back at the forces surrounding the pop star’s rise and fall.

Journalist Jeff Weiss’ new book is as much about the pop princess as it is his own complicity in early-2000s celebrity culture: “I look back with contempt and disgust and wonder” Weiss says ...

In her new book, Toxic, Ditum analyzes how digital cameras, the Internet and tabloid misogyny created ... NPR's Scott Detrow about the infamous Britney Spears interview with Diane Sawyer, the ...

In an excerpt from his buzzy new book, Jeff Weiss recalls a mid-2000s golden age when the tabloids tracked the starlets’ ...

Weiss, a Los Angeles-based former tabloid reporter who covered Spears ... and pop culture website, in 2020 in honor of its 20th anniversary. The publication of “Waiting for Britney Spears ...

Britney Spears is speaking out amid tabloid reports that she lit a cigarette aboard a plane. In an Instagram post May 23, the "Piece of Me" singer explained that she "said 'I want a cigarette so ...

It was something far more powerful: 18-year-old Britney Spears. “Do [that] many people ... Michelle, Erin’s mom, was indeed aware of pop culture’s effects on her two daughters (her youngest ...

Paris Hilton paid tribute to the legendary paparazzi photo of her in her car with Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears ... be the height of paparazzi and tabloid culture. Fans flooded the comments ...

Even 20 years ago, Weiss had a constant, nagging feeling that the magazines he worked for were exploiting the people they covered, and making the culture ... ordering old tabloid magazines on ...