Outside Magazine

''Outside'' is a magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue of the ''Outside'' magazine was published in September 1977. It is published by Outside Inc., a company that also owns various other ventures.

History

''Outside'' founders were Jann Wenner (the first editor in chief), William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), and Jack Ford (an assistant to founding publisher Donald Welsh and a son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford). Wenner sold ''Outside'' to Lawrence J. Burke two years later. Burke merged it into his magazine ''Mariah'' (founded in 1976) and after a period of using the name ''Mariah/Outside'' kept the ''Outside'' name for the merged magazine.

In 2021, Burke sold ''Outside'' to Pocket Outdoor Media. In March 2025, 35 journalists signed a letter requesting their names be removed from the magazine’s masthead in protest over recent layoffs and censorship.

Contributors

Christopher Keyes was the editor . John Rasmus, one editor of ''Outside'', launched the career of Jon Krakauer and other freelance travel and adventure writers. Though the magazine has tilted toward a more commercial aesthetic in recent years, it has also recruited figures from the literary world for freelance assignments. Writers whose work has appeared in ''Outside'' include Sebastian Junger, Bruce Barcott, Tim Cahill, Daniel Coyle, E. Annie Proulx, naturalist and author David Quammen, and Bob Shacochis. Songwriter David Berkeley also worked for ''Outside''.

See also

*'' Field and Stream''
*''Outdoor Life''
*'' Sports Afield''

References

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Sports magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1977
Magazines published in New Mexico
Tourism magazines
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Mass media in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mass media in Boulder, Colorado
Climbing and mountaineering magazines and journals