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{{Short description|British/American weekly news magazines}}
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| title = THE WEEK
| title = The Week
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| image_alt = Cover of The Week UK magazine showing rowing boats
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| image_caption = Cover for 6 April 2024 issue (UK)
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| image_caption = Cover of an issue from December 2010 ([[United States]] edition).
| editor = Caroline Law ([[United Kingdom]] edition)<br />William Falk ([[United States]] edition)
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| editor_title = Editors-in-chief
| editor = [[Jeremy O'Grady]] ([[United Kingdom]] edition)<br>William Falk ([[United States]] edition)
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| total_circulation = 153,925 (UK)<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 2021 |title=ABC Brand report |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/50541344.pdf |access-date=15 November 2022 |website=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|ABC]]}}</ref><br />416,358 (US)<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 September 2021 |title=Circulation of The Week in the United States from 1st half 2017 to 1st half 2021 |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/692019/the-week-us-circulation/ |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=[[Statista]]}}</ref>
| total_circulation= 197,255 (UK)<ref>{{cite news|title=Mag ABCs: Full circulation round-up for the first half of 2013|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/magazine-abcs-full-circulation-round-first-half-2013|accessdate=7 December 2013|newspaper=[[Press Gazette]]|date=15 August 2013}}</ref><br>578,163 (US)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp |title= eCirc for Consumer Magazines |date= 31 December 2015 |publisher= [[Alliance for Audited Media]]|accessdate=1 June 2016}}</ref> |
| circulation_year= 2015
| circulation_year = 2021
| company = [[Future plc]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 16, 2021 |title=Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/16/country-life-owner-buys-dennis-publishing-in-300m-deal |website=the Guardian}}</ref>
| company = [[Dennis Publishing]] (UK edition)<br>The Week Publications (US edition)
| publisher = [[Michael Wolfe]] ([[United States]] edition)
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| firstdate = 1995 (UK edition)<br>2001 (US edition)
| firstdate = 1995 (UK edition)<br />April 2001 (US edition)<br />October 2008 (Australian edition)
| country = [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]]
| country = [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]], [[Australia]] (formerly)
| based = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] ([[United States]] edition)
| based = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] ([[United States]] edition)
[[London]], [[United Kingdom]] ([[United Kingdom]] edition)
| language = [[English language|English]] (both editions)
| language = [[English language|English]] (all editions)
| website = [http://www.theweek.co.uk theweek.co.uk] (UK edition)<br>[http://www.theweek.com theweek.com] (US edition)
| website = {{URL|https://www.theweek.co.uk/|theweek.co.uk}} (UK edition)<br />{{URL|theweek.com}} (US edition)
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'''''The Week''''', styled as '''''THE WEEK''''', is a weekly British [[news magazine]] which also publishes a US edition, and between 2008 and 2012 additionally published an Australian edition.
'''''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.

There were three other magazines called ''The Week'' in Canada and the UK, all unrelated to the current magazine and now defunct.


== History ==
== History ==
''The Week'' was founded in the [[United Kingdom]] by [[Jolyon Connell]] (formerly of the right-of-centre ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'') in 1995.<ref name=pasm>{{cite web|title=The 20 Best Magazines of the Decade (2000-2009)|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/11/the-20-best-magazines-of-the-decade.html|work=Paste Magazine|accessdate=10 August 2015|date=26 November 2009}}</ref> In April 2001, the magazine began publishing an [[United States|American]] edition;<ref name=pasm/> an [[Australia]]n edition followed in October 2008. [[Dennis Publishing]] publishes the UK edition and, until 2012, the Australian edition. The Week Publications publishes the US edition.
''The Week'' was founded in the United Kingdom by [[Jolyon Connell]] (formerly of the ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'') in 1995.<ref name="pasm">{{Cite web |date=26 November 2009 |title=The 20 Best Magazines of the Decade (2000–2009) |url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/11/the-20-best-magazines-of-the-decade.html |access-date=10 August 2015 |website=Paste Magazine}}</ref> In April 2001, the magazine began publishing an American edition;<ref name="pasm" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Steve Black |date=2009 |title=Life spans of Library Journal's 'Best Magazines of the Year' |journal=Serials Review |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=213–217 |doi=10.1080/00987913.2009.10765248 |s2cid=220292393}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A short history of the Week |website=[[The Week]] |date=15 April 2021 |url=https://theweek.com/articles/977049/short-history-week}}</ref>


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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Week to launch children's magazine: The Week Junior |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/66363/the-week-to-launch-childrens-magazine-the-week-junior |access-date=22 August 2017 |website=The Week|date=29 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Week Junior |url=http://www.sla.org.uk/blg-the-week-junior.php |access-date=22 August 2017 |website=School Library Association}}</ref>
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The Australian edition of ''The Week'' ceased operation in October 2012 and administrators have been appointed to its publisher, Dennis Publishing Pty Ltd (Australia). 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.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Week calls it a day|work=The Australian|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/the-week-calls-it-a-day/story-e6frg996-1226499205638/|accessdate=29 October 2012|year=2012}}</ref>


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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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 October 2012 |title=The Week calls it a day |work=The Australian |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/the-week-calls-it-a-day/story-e6frg996-1226499205638/ |access-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023204805/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/the-week-calls-it-a-day/story-e6frg996-1226499205638/ |archive-date=23 October 2012}} (Archived link from [[Wayback Machine]])</ref>
==Content==
The various editions of the magazine provide perspectives of the week's news and editorial commentary from global media to provide readers with multiple political viewpoints. In addition to news and opinion, the magazine also covers science, business and the arts. The magazine is known for a wide focus that incorporates current events, news, health, media, science, arts, and more.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newspoliticsmagazines.com/magazines/the-week-magazine/|title=The Week Magazine|publisher=News & Politics Magazines|accessdate=2014-03-13}}</ref>


[[Future plc|Future Plc]] acquired Dennis Publishing and several of its titles including ''The Week'' in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-16 |title=Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/16/country-life-owner-buys-dennis-publishing-in-300m-deal |access-date=2021-09-18 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
==Website==
In September 2007, the magazine's U.S. edition launched a daily website. Edited by Ben Frumin, the daily website carries the mission of the print magazine to the Internet, but also publishes original commentary from writers including [[David Frum]], [[Robert Shrum]], [[Will Wilkinson]], Daniel Larison, and [[Brad DeLong]]. The UK website, which was first published under the name The First Post, is edited by Holden Frith.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/week-set-expand-website-team-12-it-exceeds-2m-browsers-month |title=The Week expands website editorial team to 12 as it exceeds 2m browsers per month |first=Rory |last=Tingle |date=6 July 2015 |work=[[Press Gazette]] |accessdate=22 May 2016 }}</ref>


==The WeekDay app==
== 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.
In October 2015, the UK edition of The Week launched a free iPhone app called The WeekDay.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/66593/the-week-day-a-free-daily-news-app-from-the-week |title=The WeekDay: a free daily news app from The Week |publisher=theweek.co.uk |accessdate=22 May 2016 }}</ref> Published twice-daily, the app contains a digest of news and analysis. It is also edited by Holden Frith.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}


== Web publications ==
==Defunct magazines also known as ''The Week''==
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,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruman |first=Marcin |date=2017-02-28 |title=The Week launches weekly podcast The Week unwrapped |url=https://magnetic.media/news-views/news/the-week-launches-weekly-podcast |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=magnetic.media |language=en-US}}</ref> which was named news podcast of the year at the Publisher Podcast Awards in 2020 and 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Houston |first=Peter |date=2022-04-06 |title=Lessons from award-winning podcasts: The Week's Holden Frith |url=https://voices.media/lessons-from-award-winning-podcasts-the-weeks-holden-frith/ |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=Media Voices |language=en}}</ref>
''The Week'' has been the title of a seminal [[literary magazine]] in [[Canada]] and two other weekly news magazines founded in the UK. These publications were not connected with the current magazines.


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== References ==
===''The Week'' (1883&ndash;1896)===
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This publication was "Canada's leading political and literary periodical".<ref>{{cite news |title="The Intellectual Possibilities of a Mere Colony": The Week in Search of a New Canadian Soul|author=Tausky, Thomas E.|publisher=CNET Networks, Inc. |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199707/ai_n8769410/|accessdate=2008-10-14 | year=1997}}</ref> Prominent contributors included poet [[Charles G. D. Roberts]]; journalist and novelist [[Sara Jeannette Duncan]]; and political critic and intellectual [[Goldwin Smith]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}


== Further reading ==
===''The Week'' (1933&ndash;1941)===
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/business/media/14magazine.html Jeremy W. Peters, "The News, in Bright Bits," ''The New York Times,'' March 13, 2011]
[[Communist]] journalist [[Claud Cockburn]] launched the first British publication known as ''The Week'' as a [[newsletter]] in the spring of 1933, after he had returned from reporting on [[Germany]]. It focused on the rise of [[fascism]], in a style that anticipated ''[[Private Eye]]'' and won a wide readership, according to Cockburn's son.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/06/04/my-father-claud-cockburn-the-mi5-suspect/ |title=My Father, Claud Cockburn, the MI5 Suspect |first=Patrick |last=Cockburn |authorlink=Patrick Cockburn |date=4 June 2005 |work=[[CounterPunch]] |accessdate=27 August 2016 }}</ref> [[Jessica Mitford]] attributed the journal's influence to its use of undercover sources.<ref name="Spartacus">{{cite web |url=http://spartacus-educational.com/SPcockburn.htm |title=Claud Cockburn |first=John |last=Simkin |date=August 2014 |origyear=September 1997 |publisher=[[Spartacus Educational]] |accessdate=27 August 2016 }}</ref> Claud Cockburn's third wife Patricia wrote a book about it, ''The Years of The Week'', published in hardback in 1968 and paperback (Penguin) in 1971. ''The Week'' ceased publication in 1941.<ref name="Spartacus"/>

===''The Week'' (pre 1965&ndash;1968)===
[[Ken Coates]] and [[Pat Jordan]] refounded ''The Week'' some time before 1965 as a "a cylostyled weekly bulletin".<ref>{{cite web|author=Ed Lewis |url=http://members.optushome.com.au/spainter/Tariq.html |title=The revolutionary left in Britain (1972) |publisher=Members.optushome.com.au |date= |accessdate=2016-08-26}}</ref> They were [[Marxist]] members of the [[British Labour Party]] connected to the ''[[New Left Review]]'', to which Cockburn occasionally contributed. Their version of ''The Week'' provided a [[socialist]] critique of [[Harold Wilson]]'s government, notably over its failure to oppose the [[Vietnam War]]. Jordan edited the paper until 1968, when he cooperated with [[Tariq Ali]] in launching ''[[The Black Dwarf (newspaper)|The Black Dwarf]]''. At that time ''The Week'' became a monthly magazine called ''International'', which was published by the [[International Marxist Group]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}

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==External links==
== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.theweek.co.uk}}
* [http://www.theweek.com/ Official website (U.S. edition)]
* [http://www.theweek.co.uk/ Official website (U.K. edition)]


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Latest revision as of 08:11, 15 December 2024

For other weekly publications of the same name, see The Week (disambiguation).

The Week
Cover of The Week UK magazine showing rowing boats
Cover for 6 April 2024 issue (UK)
Editors-in-chiefCaroline Law (United Kingdom edition)
William Falk (United States edition)
CategoriesNews 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)
CompanyFuture plc[3]
CountryUnited Kingdom, United States, Australia (formerly)
Based inNew York City, New York (United States edition) London, United Kingdom (United Kingdom edition)
LanguageEnglish (all editions)
Websitetheweek.co.uk (UK edition)
theweek.com (US edition)
ISSN1533-8304

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.

History

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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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "ABC Brand report" (PDF). ABC. December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  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. ^ a b "The 20 Best Magazines of the Decade (2000–2009)". Paste Magazine. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  5. ^ Steve Black (2009). "Life spans of Library Journal's 'Best Magazines of the Year'". Serials Review. 35 (4): 213–217. doi:10.1080/00987913.2009.10765248. S2CID 220292393.
  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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