{{Short description|British/American weekly news magazines}} {{For|other weekly publications of the same name}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox magazine | title = The Week | image_file = The Week UK 6 April 2024 cover.webp | image_alt = Cover of The Week UK magazine showing rowing boats | image_caption = Cover for 6 April 2024 issue (UK) | editor = Theo Tait (United Kingdom edition)<br />Theunis Bates (United States edition) | editor_title = Editors-in-chief | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | category = News magazine | total_circulation = 153,925 (UK)<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 2021 |title=ABC Brand report |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/50541344.pdf |access-date=15 November 2022 |website=ABC}}</ref><br />416,358 (US)<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 September 2021 |title=Circulation of The Week in the United States from 1st half 2017 to 1st half 2021 |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/692019/the-week-us-circulation/ |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=Statista}}</ref> | circulation_year = 2021 | company = Future plc<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 August 2021 |title=Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/16/country-life-owner-buys-dennis-publishing-in-300m-deal |website=the Guardian}}</ref> | publisher = | firstdate = 1995 (UK edition)<br />April 2001 (US edition)<br />October 2008 (Australian edition) | country = United Kingdom, United States, Australia (formerly) | based = New York City, New York (United States edition) London, United Kingdom (United Kingdom edition) | language = English (all editions) | website = {{URL|https://www.theweek.com/uk|theweek.com/uk}} (UK edition)<br />{{URL|theweek.com}} (US edition) | issn = 1533-8304 <!--(United States edition)-- addition this descriptive breaks an inflexible template (phrase appears twice)--> | lastdate = October 2012 (Australian edition) }}
'''''The Week''''' is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States. The British publication was founded in 1995 and the American edition in 2001. An Australian edition was published from 2008 to 2012. A children's edition, '''''The Week Junior''''', has been published in the UK since 2015, and the US since 2020.
== History == ''The Week'' was founded in the United Kingdom by Jolyon Connell (formerly of the ''Sunday Telegraph'') in 1995.<ref name="pasm">{{Cite web |date=26 November 2009 |title=The 20 Best Magazines of the Decade (2000–2009) |url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/11/the-20-best-magazines-of-the-decade.html |access-date=10 August 2015 |website=Paste Magazine}}</ref> In April 2001, the magazine began publishing an American edition;<ref name="pasm" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Steve Black |date=2009 |title=Life spans of Library Journal's 'Best Magazines of the Year' |journal=Serials Review |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=213–217 |doi=10.1080/00987913.2009.10765248 |s2cid=220292393}}</ref> and an Australian edition followed in October 2008. Dennis Publishing, founded by Felix Dennis, publishes the UK edition and, until 2012, published the Australian edition. The Week Publications publishes the U.S. edition. In 2021, ''The Week'' celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its first publication in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A short history of the Week |website=The Week |date=15 April 2021 |url=https://theweek.com/articles/977049/short-history-week}}</ref>
Since November 2015 ''The Week'' has published a children's edition, ''The Week Junior'', a current affairs magazine aimed at 8 to 14 year olds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Week to launch children's magazine: The Week Junior |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/66363/the-week-to-launch-childrens-magazine-the-week-junior |access-date=22 August 2017 |website=The Week|date=29 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Week Junior |url=http://www.sla.org.uk/blg-the-week-junior.php |access-date=22 August 2017 |website=School Library Association |archive-date=22 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822222305/http://www.sla.org.uk/blg-the-week-junior.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The Australian edition of ''The Week'' ceased operation in October 2012. The final edition, its 199th, was released on 12 October 2012. At the end, it was selling 28,000 copies a week, with a readership of 83,000.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 October 2012 |title=The Week calls it a day |work=The Australian |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/the-week-calls-it-a-day/story-e6frg996-1226499205638/ |access-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023204805/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/the-week-calls-it-a-day/story-e6frg996-1226499205638/ |archive-date=23 October 2012}} (Archived link from Wayback Machine)</ref>
Future Plc acquired Dennis Publishing and several of its titles including ''The Week'' in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-16 |title=Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/16/country-life-owner-buys-dennis-publishing-in-300m-deal |access-date=2021-09-18 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
== Content == The magazine's content largely consists of summaries of news stories and opinion columns published by other media outlets earlier in the week. Some summaries are based on articles in foreign media that were originally published in a language other than English.
== Web publications == In September 2007, the magazine's U.S. edition launched a daily website. A UK site followed soon after. Both websites reflect the approach of the magazines, publishing non-partisan articles that encompass a wide range of perspectives. The Week launched a podcast, The Week Unwrapped in 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruman |first=Marcin |date=2017-02-28 |title=The Week launches weekly podcast The Week unwrapped |url=https://magnetic.media/news-views/news/the-week-launches-weekly-podcast |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=magnetic.media |language=en-US}}</ref> which was named news podcast of the year at the Publisher Podcast Awards in 2020 and 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Houston |first=Peter |date=2022-04-06 |title=Lessons from award-winning podcasts: The Week's Holden Frith |url=https://voices.media/lessons-from-award-winning-podcasts-the-weeks-holden-frith/ |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=Media Voices |language=en}}</ref>
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== Further reading == * [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/business/media/14magazine.html Jeremy W. Peters, "The News, in Bright Bits," ''The New York Times,'' 13 March 2011]
== External links == * [http://www.theweek.com/ Official website (U.S. edition)] * [http://www.theweek.com/uk/ Official website (U.K. edition)]
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