Sunday magazine

A Sunday magazine is a publication inserted into a Sunday newspaper. It also has been known as a Sunday supplement, Sunday newspaper magazine or Sunday magazine section. Traditionally, the articles in these magazines cover a wide range of subjects, and the content is not as current and timely as the rest of the newspaper.

United States

19th century

With the rise of rotogravure printing in the 19th century, Sunday magazines offered better reproduction of photographs, and their varied contents could include columns, serialized novels, short fiction, illustrations, cartoons, puzzles and assorted entertainment features.

Janice Hume, instructor in journalism history at Kansas State University, noted, "The early Sunday magazines were latter 19th-century inventions and really linked to the rise of the department store and wanting to get those ads to women readers."

In 1869, the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' published '' San Francisco Chronicle Magazine'', regarded as the first Sunday magazine, and the '' Chicago Inter Ocean'' added color to its supplement. ''The New York Times Magazine'' was published on September 6, 1896, and it contained the first photographs ever printed in that newspaper.''The New York Times'' Timeline 1881-1910
. Retrieved on 2009-03-13. During the 1890s, publications were inserted into Joseph Pulitzer's ''New York World'' and William Randolph Hearst's ''New York Journal''. Hearst had the eight-page ''Women's Home Journal'' and the 16-page '' Sunday American Magazine'', which later became '' The American Weekly''. In November 1896, Morrill Goddard, editor of the ''New York Journal'' from 1896 to 1937, launched Hearst's Sunday magazine, later commenting, "Nothing is so stale as yesterday's newspaper, but ''The American Weekly'' may be around the house for days or weeks and lose none of its interest."

20th century

Joseph P. Knapp published the ''Associated Sunday Magazine'' from 1903 to 1905. His ''Every Week'', published between 1915 and 1918, reached a circulation of more than 550,000. This was, however, not a Sunday magazine—because it appeared separately on newsstands on Monday mornings.

''The National Sunday Magazine'' was published on a semimonthly basis during the early part of the 20th century by the Abbott & Briggs Company. Wilbur Griffith was the editor.

The '' New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine'' began in 1927. '' This Week'' magazine was launched February 24, 1935. At its peak in 1963, ''This Week'' was distributed with 42 Sunday newspapers having a total circulation of 14.6 million. Prior to 1942, it was similar to the Sunday '' Grit'' Story Section, in that it carried 80% fiction. ''This Week'' dropped serials in 1940, and in 1942, it shifted the balance to 52% articles and 48% fiction. The magazine was discontinued in 1969.

Founded in 1941, ''Parade'' became the most widely read magazine in the United States with a circulation of 32.4 million and a readership of nearly 72 million. ''Parade'' ceased publication on December 31, 2023.

''Family Weekly'' was circulated in smaller cities and towns beginning in 1953. It was later incorporated into '' USA Weekend'', which began in 1985. By the 1990s, more than half of American newspapers carried ''USA Weekend'' or ''Parade''. ''USA Weekend'', which reported a 22 million circulation in the 1990s, could be inserted into Friday, Saturday or Sunday newspapers, while ''Parade'' restricted distribution only to Sunday papers. ''USA Weekend'' ceased publication on December 28, 2014.

In 1977, ''The Washington Posts Sunday supplement, ''Potomac Magazine'', became ''The Washington Post Magazine''. Its final issue appeared on Christmas Day, 2022.

In 1994, ''Parade'' began ''React'' magazine, aimed at middle-schoolers. It was offered only to ''Parade''-subscribing newspapers. After five years, ''React'' was in 225 newspapers with over four million circulation. Newspapers used ''React'' in their Newspapers in Education programs.

United Kingdom

Most of the UK Saturday and Sunday broadsheet and tabloid papers include one or more supplements. These include the '' Guardian'' "Weekend" magazine and "Guide" arts listings and the '' Sunday Telegraph'' "Stella" and "Seven" magazines.

See also

* Sunday Magazine Editors Association
* Mabel Craft Deering, first woman to edit a Sunday magazine

Further reading

* Margaret ''Peggy'' Turbett. (1994) ''In Search of the Sunday Magazine'' ( master's thesis), E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University
* Morton, John. (December 1998) !-- http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3360 https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A53474927/AONE -->https://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=3360 ''Expensive, But Well Worth The Cost''American Journalism Review (Vol. 20, Issue 10) University of Maryland

References

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External links

Knapp's Week

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