The Week

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For the Indian news magazine founded in 1982, see The Week (Indian magazine). For
other uses, see The Week (disambiguation).
The Week
The Week US Cover December 16 2005 small.jpg
Cover of an issue from December 2010 (United States edition)
Editors-in-chief Jeremy O'Grady (United Kingdom edition)
William Falk (United States edition)
Categories News magazine
Frequency Weekly
Publisher Adam Dub (United States edition)
Total circulation
(2016) 206,251 (UK)[1]
578,163 (US)[2]
First issue 1995 (UK edition)
April 2001 (US edition)
October 2008 (Australian edition)
Final issue October 2012 (Australian edition)
Company Future plc[3]
Country United Kingdom, United States, Australia (formerly)
Based in New York City, New York (United States 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
1 History
2 Content
3 Website
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links
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 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 presents a broad
spectrum of political viewpoints. Some summaries are based on articles in foreign
media that were originally published in a language other than English.

Website
In September 2007, the magazine's U.S. edition launched a daily website. First
called theweekdaily.com, and now called theweek.com, the site publishes original
commentary from writers including David Frum, Robert Shrum, Will Wilkinson and Brad
DeLong.[11]

References
"Mag ABCs: Full circulation round-up for the first half of 2013". Press Gazette.
15 August 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
"eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. 31 December 2015.
Retrieved 1 June 2016.
"Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal". the Guardian. 16 August
2021.
"The 20 Best Magazines of the Decade (2000-2009)". Paste Magazine. 26 November
2009. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
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.
"A short history of the Week".
"The Week to launch children's magazine: The Week Junior". The Week. Retrieved 22
August 2017.
"The Week Junior". School Library Association. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
"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)
"Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal". the Guardian. 16 August
2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
Tingle, Rory (6 July 2015). "The Week expands website editorial team to 12 as it
exceeds 2m browsers per month". Press Gazette. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
Further reading
Jeremy W. Peters, "The News, in Bright Bits," The New York Times, March 13, 2011
External links
Official website (U.S. edition)
Official website (U.K. edition)The week magazine