Curated playlist
Weekly magazines published in the United States
- Time (magazine)Time magazine was almost called Facts. Two 24-year-olds launched it in 1923.
- The New YorkerThe phrase "back to the drawing board" began as a 1941 New Yorker cartoon.
- Sports IllustratedHenry Luce's own colleagues mocked his plan for Sports Illustrated. They called it "Muscle" and "Jockstrap".
- Variety (magazine)Variety began in 1905 after its founder was fired for panning an act. He borrowed $1,500 to start it.
- The Sporting NewsThe Sporting News, "The Bible of Baseball," ended its print run in 2012. It began in St. Louis in 1886.
- The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter's founder went to confession before publishing his 1946 blacklist column.
- The New RepublicThe New Republic magazine once ran a KGB spy as its editor. Michael Whitney Straight edited it from 1948 to 1956.
- Publishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly has come out every week since 1872, before the telephone or the light bulb.
- NewsweekIn 1970, sixty women at Newsweek sued because only men could be reporters.
- Bloomberg BusinessweekBloomberg Businessweek launched weeks before the 1929 stock market crash. It was first called The Business Week.
- Comics Buyer's GuideComics Buyer's Guide began as a 17-year-old collector's ad sheet.
- Billboard (magazine)Billboard magazine began in 1894 as a trade sheet for people who pasted ads onto walls.
- AdweekA blog started as CableNewser by a Towson University student became required reading for TV news chiefs.
- The New York Times MagazineThe New York Times Magazine's first issue in 1896 carried photographs, a first for the paper.
- Life (magazine)Life magazine ran Dewey as the next president the day before Truman won.
- Woman's WorldWoman's World sold 77 million copies in 2004. At that point it was the best-selling women's magazine on American newsstands. It never relied on glossy fashion spreads or celebrity scandal to get there. It was an American weekly sold at the…