''Editor & Publisher'' (''E&P'') is an American monthly trade
news magazine
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covering the
newspaper
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industry. Published since 1901, ''Editor & Publisher'' is the self-described "bible of the newspaper industry."
Originally based in
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First Amendment
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rights and espousing the tenets of investigative and hard-news journalism." ''E&P'' has also long been known for its extensive coverage of the comic strip syndication business.
Since the magazine's September 2019 sale, ''E&P'' has expanded into other platforms, such as podcasting and voice, while delving into deeper issues regarding news publishing, including freedom of the press and the power of local journalism.
The magazine's original tagline was "The newsmagazine of the fourth estate." Its current tagline is "The Authoritative Voice of #NewsMedia Since 1884"
History
''Editor & Publisher'' evolved from several publications, the oldest of which — the weekly '' The Journalist'', the first successful American trade newspaper covering journalismWho Started the Journalist? ''Editor & Publisher'', 29 January 1921, p. 32 — had been founded in 1884. ''The Editor & Publisher: A Journal for Newspaper Makers''Lee, Alfred McClung The Daily Newspaper in America, Vol. 1 p. 228 (1937) itself was founded in 1901, and in 1907 it merged with ''The Journalist''.Daly, Christopher B ''Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), p. 155. ''E&P'' later acquired the trade journal ''Newspaperdom'' (established 1892), and in 1927 it merged with the trade paper ''The Fourth Estate''.
''E&P'' published the long-awaited
King–Crane Commission
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Report (officially called the 1919 Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey) in its December 2, 1922 edition.
From 1990 to 2010, ''Editor and Publisher'' produced the Interactive Newspapers Conference (which changed its name to the Interactive Media Conference & Trade Show in the year 2000). '' MediaWeek'' joined as a co-sponsor in 2003. The annual conference was held in various locations around the United States, frequently in New Orleans and Las Vegas. Since 1996, ''E&P'' has presented the
EPPY Awards
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, an award for media-affiliated
websites
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. The EPPYS were presented at the Interactive Media Conference until 2011 when they went fully online.
For many years the company published the ''Editor & Publisher International Yearbook''. It still publishes the annual ''Editor & Publisher DataBook'' and this data is also available on the website.
''Editor & Publisher'' was acquired in 1999 by the Nielsen Company. Nielsen shut down ''E&P'' at the end of 2010,Pérez-Peña, Richard "Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews Close," ''New York Times'' (December 10, 2009). but the magazine was revived when the
Duncan McIntosh Company
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purchased it from Nielsen and moved its offices to the
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area.
In September 2019 ''Editor & Publisher'' was purchased by author of "Survival Selling" and
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Chris Stirewalt
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, and businessman and politician
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In January 2021, the magazine donated their digitized "back issues" to
Internet Archive
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Press Gazette
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