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Weekly magazines published in the United States

  • Time (magazine)Time magazine hit newsstands for the first time on the 3rd of March, 1923, priced at fifteen cents a copy. Two Yale-educated twenty-four-year-olds named…
  • The New YorkerThe New Yorker debuted on the 21st of February, 1925, with a cover image of a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle.
  • Sports IllustratedSports Illustrated arrived on newsstands on the 9th of August, 1954, at a moment when many serious journalists believed sports was beneath their craft.
  • Variety (magazine)Variety was born from an act of defiance. In 1905, Sime Silverman lost his job at The Morning Telegraph for panning an act that had paid $50 for an…
  • The Sporting NewsThe first edition of The Sporting News hit newsstands on the 17th of March 1886 in St. Louis. Alfred H. Spink, a director for the St.
  • The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter hit newsstands for the first time on the 3rd of September 1930, and from that opening edition it was already courting trouble.
  • The New RepublicThe New Republic published its first issue on the 7th of November, 1914, the same year the First World War broke out in Europe.
  • Publishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly has been landing on the desks of booksellers, librarians, and literary agents every week since 1872. That is not a typo.
  • NewsweekNewsweek hit newsstands for the first time on the 17th of February 1933, its debut cover featuring seven photographs from the week's news.
  • Bloomberg BusinessweekBloomberg Businessweek hit newsstands in New York City in September 1929 - weeks before the stock market crash that would define the era it was born into.
  • Comics Buyer's GuideAlan Light was seventeen years old when he launched The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom in February 1971. He operated the publication from his home in the…
  • Billboard (magazine)Billboard magazine was born on the 1st of November, 1894, in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a trade sheet for the people who pasted advertisements onto walls.
  • AdweekAdweek first appeared on newsstands in 1979 as a weekly American advertising trade publication. The magazine emerged to cover marketing, creativity, and…
  • The New York Times MagazineThe New York Times Magazine first landed in readers' hands on the 6th of September 1896, and it carried something the newspaper had never printed before…
  • Life (magazine)Life magazine arrived on newsstands on the 23rd of November, 1936, and within four months it was selling more than one million copies a week.
  • Woman's WorldHeinrich Bauer Verlag of Hamburg, Germany launched Woman's World in the United States during 1981. The German publisher established a subsidiary named…