The Week

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The Week
The Week US Cover December 16 2005 small.jpg
Cover for the issue on December 17, 2010 (United States edition)
Editors-in-chiefCaroline Law (United Kingdom edition)
William Falk (United States edition)
Categories News magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Total circulation
(2021)
153,925 (UK) [1]
416,358 (US) [2]
First issue1995 (UK edition)
April 2001 (US edition)
October 2008 (Australian edition)
Final issueOctober 2012 (Australian edition)
Company Future plc [3]
Country United Kingdom, United States, Australia (formerly)
Based in New York City, New York (United States edition) London, United Kingdom (United Kingdom edition)
Language English (all editions)
Website theweek.co.uk (UK edition)
theweek.com (US edition)
ISSN 1533-8304

The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States. The British publication was founded in 1995 and the American edition in 2001. An Australian edition was published from 2008 to 2012. A children's edition, The Week Junior, has been published in the UK since 2015, and the US since 2020.

Contents

History

The Week was founded in the United Kingdom by Jolyon Connell (formerly of the Sunday Telegraph ) in 1995. [4] In April 2001, the magazine began publishing an American edition; [4] [5] and an Australian edition followed in October 2008. Dennis Publishing, founded by Felix Dennis, publishes the UK edition and, until 2012, published the Australian edition. The Week Publications publishes the U.S. edition. In the year 2021, The Week celebrated its 20 year anniversary of its first publication in the United States. [6]

Since November 2015 The Week has published a children's edition, The Week Junior, a current affairs magazine aimed at 8 to 14 year olds. [7] [8]

The Australian edition of The Week ceased operation in October 2012. The final edition, its 199th, was released on 12 October 2012. At the end, it was selling 28,000 copies a week, with a readership of 83,000. [9]

Future Plc acquired Dennis Publishing and several of its titles including The Week in 2021. [10]

Content

The magazine's content largely consists of summaries of news stories and opinion columns published by other media outlets earlier in the week, and posts from a left-leaning perspective. Some summaries are based on articles in foreign media that were originally published in a language other than English.

Web publications

In September 2007, the magazine's U.S. edition launched a daily website. A UK site followed soon after. Both websites reflect the approach of the magazines, publishing non-partisan articles that encompass a wide range of perspectives. The Week launched a podcast, The Week Unwrapped in 2017, [11] which was named news podcast of the year at the Publisher Podcast Awards in 2020 and 2021. [12]

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References

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  2. "Circulation of The Week in the United States from 1st half 2017 to 1st half 2021". Statista. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  3. "Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal". the Guardian. 16 August 2021.
  4. 1 2 "The 20 Best Magazines of the Decade (2000–2009)". Paste Magazine. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
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  6. "A short history of the Week". The Week . 15 April 2021.
  7. "The Week to launch children's magazine: The Week Junior". The Week. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  8. "The Week Junior". School Library Association. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  9. "The Week calls it a day". The Australian. 19 October 2012. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2020. (Archived link from Wayback Machine)
  10. "Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal". the Guardian. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  11. Ruman, Marcin (28 February 2017). "The Week launches weekly podcast The Week unwrapped". magnetic.media. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  12. Houston, Peter (6 April 2022). "Lessons from award-winning podcasts: The Week's Holden Frith". Media Voices. Retrieved 15 November 2022.

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