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| Editor-in-Chief | Lawrence J. Burke |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (June 2012) | 686,623 [1] |
| First issue | September 1977 |
| Company | Outside, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Boulder, Colorado |
| Language | English |
| Website | outsideonline |
| ISSN | 0278-1433 |
Outside is a magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue of the Outside magazine was published in September 1977. [2] It is published by Outside Inc., a company that also owns various other ventures.
Outside founders were Jann Wenner (the first editor in chief), William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), and Jack Ford (an assistant to founding publisher Donald Welsh and a son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford). [3] Wenner sold Outside to Lawrence J. Burke two years later. Burke merged it into his magazine Mariah (founded in 1976) and after a period of using the name Mariah/Outside kept the Outside name for the merged magazine. [4] Christopher Keyes is the current editor. [5]
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