Time
Time's first cover (March 3, 1923)
Editor	Richard Stengel
Categories	Newsmagazine
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	4,038,509 per week[1] (within the U. Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Richard Stengel is an American editor He is Time magazine's 16th Managing editor. A newsmagazine, also spelled news magazine, is usually a weekly Magazine featuring articles or segments on current events This is a list of magazines by overall circulation. A Magazine 's circulation is the number of copies it distributes on average for each issue S. )
First issue	March 3, 1923
Company	Time Inc. (Time Warner)
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.time.com
ISSN	0040-781X

Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A newsmagazine, also spelled news magazine, is usually a weekly Magazine featuring articles or segments on current events Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders Time publishes simultaneously in Canada, with separate advertising. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The South Pacific edition, covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island The Pacific Ocean contains an estimated 20000 to 30000 Islands (the exact number has yet to be precisely determined Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 In some advertising campaigns, the magazine has suggested that through a backronym the letters Time stand for "The International Magazine of Events. A backronym (or bacronym) is a Phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing word or Abbreviation, the abbreviation "

Richard Stengel is the current managing editor of Time; Priscilla Painton, Adi Ignatius and Michael Elliott are the current deputy managing editors. Richard Stengel is an American editor He is Time magazine's 16th Managing editor. Priscilla Painton is an American journalist She was a Deputy Managing Editor of TIME magazine from 2006 until she joined Simon & Schuster in 2008

History

Time was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the United States. Briton Hadden ( February 18, 1898 &ndash February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Robinson Luce ( April 3, 1898 &ndash February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor of the Yale Daily News and considered calling the magazine Facts. The Yale Daily News is a Newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven Connecticut since January 28, 1878 ^[2] Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce and saw Time as something important but also fun. That accounts for its tone, which many people still criticize as too light for serious news and more suited to its heavy coverage of celebrities (including politicians), the entertainment industry, and pop culture. It set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazine's cover was of a single person. The first issue of Time was published on March 3, 1923, featuring on its cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; a facsimile reprint of Issue No. Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For other people named Joseph Cannon see Joseph Cannon (disambiguation Joseph Gurney Cannon ( May 7, 1836 &ndash The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer&mdashor speaker &mdashof the United States House of Representatives. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28, 1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazine's 15th anniversary.

On Hadden's death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time and a major figure in the history of 20th-century media.

According to "Time Inc. : The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1972-2004" by Robert Elson, "Roy Edward Larsen […] was to play a role second only to Luce's in the development of Time Inc. " In his book, The March of Time, 1935-1951, Raymond Fielding also noted that Larsen was "originally circulation manager and then general manager of Time, later publisher of Life, for many years president of Time, Inc. , and in the long history of the corporation the most influential and important figure after Luce. "

Edith Cummings was the first woman athlete to appear on the cover of Time, a major step in women's athletic history. Edith Cummings ( March 26, 1899 – November 1984 was a Professional golfer.

Around the time they were raising US$100,000 from rich Yale alumni like J.P. Morgan & Co., publicity man Martin Egan and J. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been JP Morgan & Co was a commercial and Investment banking institution based in the United States founded by J P. Morgan & Co. banker Dwight Morrow, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden hired Larsen in 1922 – although Larsen was a Harvard graduate and Luce and Hadden were Yale graduates. After Hadden died in 1929, Larsen purchased 550 shares of Time Inc. , using money he obtained from selling RKO stock which he had inherited from his father, who was the head of the B.F. Keith theatre chain in New England. Benjamin Franklin Keith (January 26 1846 &ndash March 26 1914 was an American Vaudeville theatre owner generally credited for the evolution of variety theater into History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the However, after Briton Hadden's death, the largest Time Inc. stockholder was Henry Luce, who ruled the media conglomerate in an autocratic fashion, "at his right hand was Larsen," Time Inc. Henry Robinson Luce ( April 3, 1898 &ndash February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher 's second-largest stockholder, according to "Time Inc. : The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923-1941". In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director and a Time Inc. vice-president.

At the time of Henry Luce's death in 1967, the Time Inc. stock which Luce owned was worth about US$109 million and yielded him a yearly dividend income of more than US$2. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 4 million, according to "The World of Time Inc: The Intimate History Of A Changing Enterprise 1960-1989" by Curtis Prendergast. The value of the Larsen family's Time Inc. stock was now worth about $80 million during the 1960s and Roy Larsen was both a Time Inc. director and the chairman of its Executive Committee, before serving as Time Inc. 's vice-chairman of the board until the middle of 1979. According to the September 10, 1979 issue of The New York Times, "Mr. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Larsen was the only employee in the company's history given an exemption from its policy of mandatory retirement at age 65. "

After "Time" magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilising U. S. radio and movie theatres around the world. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Cinemaaustraliajpg|thumb|A movie theater in Australia ]]A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre or cinema is a venue It often promoted both "Time" magazine and U. S. political and corporate interests. According to The March of Time, as early as 1924, Larsen had brought Time into the infant radio business with the broadcast of a 15-minute sustaining quiz show entitled 'Pop Question' which survived until 1925. " Then, according to the same book, "In 1928 […] Larsen undertook the weekly broadcast of a 10-minute programme series of brief news summaries, drawn from current issues of 'Time' magazine […] which was originally broadcast over 33 stations throughout the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the "

Larsen next arranged for a 30-minute radio programme, titled "The March of Time", to be broadcast over CBS, beginning on March 6, 1931. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Each week, his "The March of Time" radio programme presented a dramatisation of the week's news for its listeners. As a result of this radio programme, "Time" magazine was brought "to the attention of millions previously unaware of its existence," according to "Time Inc. : The Intimate History Of A Publishing Enterprise 1923-1941", and this led to an increased circulation of the magazine during the 1930s. Between 1931 and 1937, Larsen's "The March of Time" radio programme was broadcast over CBS radio and between 1937 and 1945 it was broadcast over NBC radio – except for the 1939 to 1941 period when it was not aired.

People Magazine was based on Time's People page. People (full name People Weekly) is a weekly American Magazine of Celebrity and human interest stories, published

Time became part of Time Warner in 1989 when Warner Communications and Time, Inc. Time Warner Inc ( is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered in New York City. merged. Since 2000, the magazine has been part of AOL Time Warner, which subsequently reverted to the name Time Warner in 2003.

In 2007, Time moved from a Monday subscription/newsstand delivery to a schedule where the magazine goes on sale Fridays, and Saturday subscription delivery. The magazine actually began in 1923 with Friday publication.

In the beginning of 2007, the year's first issue was delayed for approximately a week due to "editorial changes". The changes included the job losses of 49 employees. ^[3]

Circulation

In 2007, Time's paid circulation dropped to 3. 4 million. ^[4]

The magazine has an online archive with the unformatted text for every article published. The articles are indexed and were converted from scanned images using optical character recognition technology. Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the Mechanical or electronic translation of Images of handwritten typewritten There are still minor errors in the text that are remnants of the conversion into text.

Style

Time has always had its own writing style, parodied most famously in 1936 by Wolcott Gibbs in an article in The New Yorker: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind […] Where it all will end, knows God!" The early days of incessantly inverted sentences and "beady-eyed tycoons" and "great and good friends", however, have long since vanished. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry Time's film, theatre, and television reviews, especially during the 1950s, '60's, and '70's, were often savagely sarcastic.

Up until the mid-1970s or so, Time had a weekly section called "Listings", which contained capsule summaries and/or reviews of then-current significant films, plays, musicals, television programs, and literary bestsellers, much like The New Yorker's section "Current Events".

The magazine still follows French spellings for some words, such as élite (with an accent).

Time is also known for its signature red border, introduced in 1927, which only changed twice since then. The issue released shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States featured a black border to symbolize mourning. Mourning is in the simplest sense synonymous with Grief over the Death of someone However, this edition was a special "extra" edition published quickly for the breaking news of the event; the next "regular" issue featured the red border. For the second time in its history, the April 28, 2008 issue of Time^[5] features a change from the signature red border: the 2008 Earth Day issue features a green border, as it is dedicated to environmental issues, global warming, and climate change. ^[6] Another cover that was affected by politics was a December 1941 issue of Time which was intended to have Disney's recent film Dumbo on the cover, but it was dropped due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dumbo is a 1941 Animated feature Film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, as it was called by the Imperial General Headquarters) was a surprise Military strike conducted by

In 2007, Time engineered a style overhaul of the magazine aimed at appealing to a younger generation. Among other changes, the magazine reduced the red cover border in order to advertise featured stories, enlarged column titles, reduced the amount of featured stories, increased white space around articles, and accompanied opinion pieces with photographs of the writers. The changes have met both criticism and praise. ^{[7][8] [9]}

Legal controversy

On September 10, 2007, Supreme Court of Indonesia awarded former Indonesian President Suharto damages against Time Asia magazine, ordering it to pay him one trillion rupiah ($128. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. A supreme court, also called a court of last resort or high court, is in some Jurisdictions the highest judicial body within that jurisdiction's The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. Suharto, also spelled Soeharto (June 8 1921 &ndash January 27 2008 was an Indonesian military leader and the second President of Indonesia, holding In Law, damages refers to the money paid or awarded to a Claimant (England Pursuer (Scotland or Plaintiff (US following a successful Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally The rupiah ( sign: Rp; code: IDR) is the official Currency of Indonesia. 59 million) for libel. The High Court reversed the judgment of the Appeal Court and Central Jakarta District Court (made in 2000 and 2001). In non-legal contexts a judgment is a balanced weighing up of evidence preparatory to making a decision Court of Appeal, Court of Appeals, and Appellate Division redirect here for a list of specific courts using those titles see Court of Appeal Central Jakarta ( Indonesian: Jakarta Pusat) is a city of Jakarta, Indonesia. District courts are a category of Courts which exists in several nations Suharto claimed more than US$27 billion ($32bn) in the suit against US-based Time over a 1999 article which published that he transferred stolen money abroad. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been ^[10]

Person of the Year

Main article: Time Person of the Year

Time's most famous feature over its 83 years has been the annual "Person of the Year" (formerly "Man of the Year") cover story, in which Time recognizes the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news. Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States Newsmagazine Time that features and profiles Despite the title, the recipient is not necessarily an individual – for instance, on January 3, 1983 the personal computer was recognized as "Machine of the Year" (Time. A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated com). In 1999, Albert Einstein was chosen by Time as Person of the Century. Albert Einstein ( German: ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n; English: ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a German -born theoretical

Controversy has occasionally arisen because of the designation of dictators and warmongers as "Persons of the Year". The distinction is supposed to go to the person who, for good or ill, has most affected the course of the year; it is therefore not necessarily an honor or a reward. In the past, such figures as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have been Man of the Year. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party In 2001, Time was accused of giving way to political correctness when it named Rudy Giuliani Person of the Year instead of Osama Bin Laden. KBE Per, "Postnominal letters should be included when they are issued by a country or organization the subject has been closely associated with Osama bin Laden, with some spelling variations is the name used in English to refer to (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن born 10 March

In 2006 the Person of the Year was designated as "You", a move that was met with split reviews. Some thought the concept was creative; others wanted an actual person of the year. Editor Stengel reflected that, if it had been a mistake, "we're only going to make it once. "^[11]

Time For Kids

Main article: Time For Kids

Written by young reporters, Time For Kids is a division magazine of Time that is especially published for children and is mainly distributed in classrooms. Time For Kids, or TFK, is an division Magazine of Time Magazine which is produced especially for Children. Time For Kids, or TFK, is an division Magazine of Time Magazine which is produced especially for Children. A division of a business entity is a portion of that business that operates under a different name Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally CHILD syndrome (or congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects) is a genetic disorder TFK contains some national news, a "Cartoon of the Week", and a variety of articles concerning popular culture. National is an adjective (adverb form nationally) used to describe a product or Publication that is distributed throughout an entire nation e The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — An annual issue concerning the environment is distributed near the end of the U. See also Natural environment The '''biophysical''' environment is the symbiosis between the physical environment and the Biological S. school term. The publication hardly ever reaches above fifteen pages front and back. It is used in many libraries.

Notable contributors

• James Agee
• Margaret Carlson was the first female columnist for Time. James Rufus Agee (November 27 1909 &ndash May 16 1955 was an American Novelist, Journalist, Poet Margaret Carlson is an American Journalist and a columnist for Bloomberg News.
• Whittaker Chambers was editor of Time for a while. Whittaker Chambers ( April 1, 1901 &ndash July 9, 1961) born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker
• Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel are film critics for the magazine. Richard Nelson Corliss (born 1943 is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on Movies, with the occasional article on music or sports Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an Author, Journalist, and documentary Schickel has been with the magazine since 1972 while Corliss has been with it since 1980.
• Ana Marie Cox writes the Ana Log (a compilation of political tidbits) for the magazine. Ana Marie Cox (born September 23 1972) is an American Author and Blogger who is the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette She is also an acclaimed blogger and author.
• Lev Grossman, brother of Bathsheba and Austin, writes primarily about books for the magazine. Lev Grossman (born 1969-06-26) is an American writer notably the author of the novels Codex and Warp Bathsheba Grossman ( 1966 &ndash is an artist in Santa Cruz California who creates Sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional Austin Grossman is a writer and game designer who has contributed to the New York Times and a number of important Video games.
• Michael Kinsley is a well traveled American journalist and is an essayist for the magazine. Michael Kinsley (born March 9, 1951 in Detroit Michigan) is an American political Journalist, commentator Television host and pundit
• Joe Klein is an author (Primary Colors) and a columnist for the magazine who writes the "In the Arena" column for the magazine. Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is a longtime Washington D Primary Colors A Novel of Politics is a 1996 Novel by " Anonymous " (later revealed to be journalist Joe Klein[http //www
• Nathaniel Lande, author, filmmaker, and former creative director of Time. Nathaniel Lande, born of Canadian parents is an award winning journalist author and filmmaker with a multifaceted career spanning several decades
• Will Lang Jr. 1936–1968, Time Life International
• Charles Krauthammer is a commentator for the Washington Post. William John Lang Jr ( 7 October 1914 – 21 January 1968) was an American journalist and a bureau head for Life Charles Krauthammer (born March 13, 1950 in New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning syndicated columnist and Commentator He also contributes essays to Time.
• Robert D. Simon 1950–1987, Time Life International
• Joel Stein is a sometimes controversial writer for the magazine who wrote the Joel 100 just after Time Magazine's Most Influential issue in 2006. Joel Stein (born 23 July 1971 is an American Journalist. He is a Columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a regular contributor to

See also

• All-Time 100 Greatest Novels
• All-Time 100 Greatest Albums
• "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", 1991 article about Scientology, by Richard Behar, received Gerald Loeb Award
• All-TIME 100 Greatest Movies

References

External links

• Time.com - for Breaking News and Analysis (PC & Mac)
• Time.mobi - for Breaking News and Analysis (Mobile Phones & PDAs)
• Time Archive - Free Archive of all magazines and covers from 1923 through present
• Time universe - Time universe on Netvibes
• Table of Contents of the Inaugural Issue on March 3, 1923