{{For|the album by Kraftwerk|Computer World{{!}}''Computer World''}} {{Short description|American information technology magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Computerworld | image_file = Computerworld-v45i14.jpg | image_caption = ''Computerworld'' cover for Volume 45, Issue 14, August 8, 2011 | image_size = 200px | image_alt = Cover for Volume 45, Issue 14 (August 8, 2011) | editor = Ken Mingis<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.computerworld.com/about/about.html|title=About us}}</ref> | editor_title = Executive Editor | frequency = Monthly (digital)<ref name="evolution"/> | total_circulation = 101,598<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bpaww.com/Bpaww_com/ProductManagement/PDFDisplay.aspx?statement_id=86723&pk=n4gwnyouivdnlumrrtq3c1j2 |title= Computerworld Business Publication Circulation Statement |date= December 2012 |publisher= [[BPA Worldwide]]|access-date=February 22, 2013}}</ref> | circulation_year = December 2012 | category = [[Computer magazine]] | publisher = John Amato<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=11714948&privcapId=183287753 |title=John Amato: Executive Profile & Biography|website=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref> | company = FoundryCo, Inc. ([[Regent LP]]) | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1967|06|21}}<br>(an introductory issue called v. 1, no. 0 issued June 14, 1967)<ref>[https://www.loc.gov Loc.gov]</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2542531/it-management/slide-show--memorable-computerworld-front-pages.html |title=Slide show: Memorable Computerworld Front Pages |date=July 9, 2007 |publisher=Computerworld |access-date=2012-04-29}}</ref> | finaldate = {{End date|2014|06|23}} (print)<ref name="evolution"/> | country = United States | based = [[Framingham, Massachusetts|Framingham]], [[Massachusetts|Mass.]] | language = English | website = {{Official URL}} | issn = 0010-4841 | founder = [[Patrick Joseph McGovern]] | founded = {{Start date|1967}} }} '''''Computerworld''''' (abbreviated as '''CW''') is a [[computer magazine]] published since 1967 aimed at [[information technology]] (IT) and [[Business computing|business technology]] professionals.<ref name="forbes">{{cite magazine | url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2014/11/26/computerworlds-2015-forecast-predicts-security-cloud-computing-and-analytics-will-lead-it-spending/#441abfb421a0 | title = Computerworld's 2015 forecast predicts security cloud computing and analytics will lead IT spending | magazine = Forbes | access-date = 26 March 2017}}</ref> Original a print magazine, ''Computerworld'' published its final print issue in 2014; since then, it has been available as an online [[news website]] and as an [[online magazine]].
As a printed weekly during the 1970s and into the 1980s, ''Computerworld'' was the leading trade publication in the data processing industry.<ref name="gp-cw"/><ref name="ceo-cw"/> Based on circulation and revenue it was one of the most successful trade publications in any industry.<ref name="gp-cw">{{cite book | editor-first=Kathleen L. | editor-last=Endres | title=Trade, Industrial, and Professional Periodicals of the United States | publisher=Greenwood Press | date=1994 | page=146}}</ref> Later in the 1980s it began to lose its dominant position.<ref name="ceo-cw">{{cite news | magazine=Chief Executive Magazine | date=1990 | issue=55 | page=49}}</ref>
It is published in many countries around the world under the same or similar names. Each country's version of ''Computerworld'' includes original content and is managed independently.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} The publisher of ''Computerworld'', Foundry (formerly IDG Communications), is a subsidiary of [[Regent LP]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dorbian |first=Iris |date=2025-03-20 |title=Regent picks up tech media company Foundry from IDG |url=https://www.pehub.com/regent-picks-up-tech-media-company-foundry-from-idg/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=PE Hub}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2025-03-21 |title=Yahoo Sells TechCrunch to Investment Firm Regent |url=https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/yahoo-sells-techcrunch-regent-1236344888/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=Variety}}</ref>
==History== The publication was launched in 1967 by [[International Data Group]] in [[Boston]], whose founder was [[Patrick Joseph McGovern|Patrick J. McGovern]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Computerworld – First Issue |website=ComputerHistory.org (Computer History Museum) |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102631381 |quote=Description. Black and White reproduction of first issue of Computerworld newsweekly. June 21, 1967 25 cents.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Maryfran |date=2002-09-30 |title=Computerworld's Founder Looks Back on 35 Years |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2577819/computerworld-s-founder-looks-back-on-35-years.html |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=Computerworld |language=en}}</ref>
===Going international=== FoundryCo (formerly [[International Data Group|IDG]] Communications) offers the [[brand]] "Computerworld" in 47 countries worldwide, the name and frequency differ slightly though.<ref>[https://www.idg.com/brand/computer_world/ International brands of Computerworld] International Data Group</ref> When IDG established the Swedish edition in 1983 i.e., the title "Computerworld" was already registered in Sweden by another publisher. This is why the Swedish edition is named ''{{ill|Computer Sweden|sv}}''. The corresponding German publication is called ''[[Computerwoche]]'' (which translates to "computer week") instead.
''Computer Sweden'' was distributed as a morning newspaper in tabloid format (41 cm) in 51,000 copies (2007) with an estimated 120,000 readers. From 1999 to 2008, it was published three days a week, but since 2009, it was published only on Tuesdays and Fridays.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/8260437|title=Computer Sweden |work=LIBRIS|access-date=2012-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.205185/sa-gor-vi-om-cs |title=Så gör vi om CS |publisher=Computer Sweden|access-date=2012-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ts.se/Mediefakta/Index.aspx?mc=004277|title=Mediefakta: sök mediefakta – ts.se – Computer Sweden|publisher=ts.se|access-date=2012-04-29}}</ref>
===Going digital=== In June 2014, ''Computerworld'' US abandoned its print edition, becoming an exclusively digital publication.<ref name="evolution">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249103/Scot_Finnie_The_continuing_evolution_of_Computerworld |title=Scot Finnie: The continuing evolution of Computerworld |date=June 19, 2014 |publisher=computerworld.com |access-date=2014-06-20}}</ref> One month later, the publisher started the monthly ''Computerworld Digital Magazine''.<ref name="premiere">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2491471/it-management/get-cw-s-new-monthly-digital-magazine.html |title=Get CW's new monthly digital magazine |publisher=computerworld.com |access-date=2014-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910201618/http://www.computerworld.com/article/2491471/it-management/get-cw-s-new-monthly-digital-magazine.html |archive-date=2014-09-10}}</ref> In 2017 it published features and stories highlighting the magazine's history on the fiftieth anniversary.
''Computerworld''{{'}}s website first appeared in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |author=Russel Brown |date=October 22, 2014 |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/digital-media-and-the-internet/page-2 |quote=1996: Computerworld became the first print newspaper to hire dedicated online editorial staff |title=The early days of the internet, 1990s}}</ref>
==Ongoing== Computerworld US serves IT and business management with coverage of [[information technology]],<ref>{{cite web |quote=Scammers tricked the New York Times' Digital Advertising department into ... the company confirmed Monday. |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2527511/enterprise-applications/new-york-times-tricked-into-serving-scareware-ad.html |title=New York Times tricked into serving scareware ad|author=Robert McMillan |work=Computerworld |date=September 15, 2009}}</ref> emerging technologies and analysis of technology trends.<ref name=Forb.17>{{cite magazine |magazine=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2017/04/30/cloud-computing-skills-pay-the-most-according-to-computerworld/ |date=April 30, 2017 |title=Cloud Computing Skills Pay The Most According To Computerworld}}</ref> Computerworld also publishes several notable special reports each year, including the 100 Best Places to Work in IT,<ref name="BEST2">{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/news/press_release.asp?docTag=201806181000PR_NEWS_USPRX____CL28893&feedID=600&press_symbol=168066 |title=Computerworld Names International Paper to 2018 List of 100 Best Places to Work in IT |date=August 26, 2018 |access-date=August 26, 2018 |archive-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203201446/https://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/news/press_release.asp?docTag=201806181000PR_NEWS_USPRX____CL28893&feedID=600&press_symbol=168066 |url-status=dead}}</ref> IT Salary Survey, the DATA+ Editors' Choice Awards and the annual Forecast research report. Computerworld in the past has published stories that highlight the effects of immigration to the U.S. (e.g. the H-1B visa) on software engineers.<ref name="senate-judiciary-hearing">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2897620/it-workers-voices-heard-in-senate-confidentially.html|title=IT workers' voices heard in the Senate, confidentially -- Senate Judiciary Committee debates the H-1B visa and worker displacement|date=March 17, 2015 |publisher=computerworld.com|access-date=2015-05-11}}</ref><ref name="kagan">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2518662/technology-law-regulation/-elena-s-inbox--details-h-1b-battle-in-clinton-white-house.html|title='Elena's Inbox' details H-1B battle in Clinton White House -- Memos to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan from Clinton administration opens door to battle over H-1B visa in critical year|date=July 2, 2010 |publisher=computerworld.com|access-date=2015-05-11}}</ref>
===Staff=== The executive editor of ''Computerworld'' in the U.S. is Ken Mingis, who leads a small staff of editors, writers and freelancers who cover a variety of enterprise IT topics (with a concentration on Windows, Mobile and Apple/Enterprise).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/about/editorial.html#editcontacts |title=Computerworld Editorial Beats/Contacts |publisher=IDG Enterprise |access-date=2014-09-12}}</ref>
==See also== * [[Patrick Joseph McGovern]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite news |title=At the start: Pat McGovern and the birth of Computerworld |author-first=Lucas |author-last=Mearian |date=2017<!-- exact date? --> |newspaper=Computerworld |publisher=[[IDG Communications, Inc.]] |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/3159129/at-the-start-pat-mcgovern-and-the-birth-of-computerworld.html |access-date=2020-01-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200118142349/https://www.computerworld.com/article/3159129/at-the-start-pat-mcgovern-and-the-birth-of-computerworld.html |archive-date=2020-01-18}} [https://www.computerworld.com/article/3159129/at-the-start-pat-mcgovern-and-the-birth-of-computerworld.html?page=2<!-- https://archive.today/20200118142618/https://www.computerworld.com/article/3159129/at-the-start-pat-mcgovern-and-the-birth-of-computerworld.html?page=2 -->]
==External links== * {{cite web|title=Computerworld archive from Google News Archive Search|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=v_xunPV0uK0C&dat=19670614&b_mode=2&hl=en|website=news.google.com}} * {{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/pub_computerworld|title=Computerworld 1967–2014|work=The Internet Archive|date=December 30, 2020|access-date=January 15, 2021}}
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