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This Week (magazine)
This Week was a nationally syndicated Sunday magazine supplement that was included in American newspapers between 1935 and 1969. In the early 1950s, it accompanied 37 Sunday newspapers. A decade later, at its peak in 1963, This Week was distributed with the Sunday editions of 42 newspapers for a total circulation of 14.6 million.
It was the oldest syndicated newspaper supplement in the United States when it went out of business in 1969. It was distributed with the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), the Boston Herald, and others. Magazine historian Phil Stephensen-Payne noted,
This Week was being published as the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine when publisher Joseph P. Knapp changed its name and began to syndicate it to other newspapers. The first issue appeared on February 24, 1935. The magazine's editor at the time was Marie Mattingly "Missy" Meloney, who professionally went by the name "Mrs. William Brown Meloney"; she had been editing the Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine since 1926. In The New York Times, Henry Raymont wrote:
In 1942, This Week cut its size down and eliminated run-overs onto back pages. It also changed to including 52% articles and 48% fiction; at one time it had contained 80% fiction.
William I. Nichols became editor of the magazine in June 1943, just before the death of Meloney the same month, and a year later the magazine started to turn a profit. In 1948, This Week surpassed the American Weekly as the American newspaper supplement with the largest advertising revenue. Nichols turned the financial fortunes of This Week around by "shun[ning] anything controversial":
By 1963, This Week reached its highest circulation.
Later, This Week was owned by Publication Corporation, which was taken over by Crowell, Collier & Macmillan in a January 1968 merger, but the magazine was "already fighting for survival".[citation needed] William Woestendiek, former editor of IBM's Think magazine and former city editor of The Houston Post, was brought in to revamp the editorial format. "We tried hard to turn out a better editorial product," an unnamed Crowell, Coller executive told The New York Times. "We succeeded in doing it, but nobody wanted it."
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This Week (magazine)
This Week was a nationally syndicated Sunday magazine supplement that was included in American newspapers between 1935 and 1969. In the early 1950s, it accompanied 37 Sunday newspapers. A decade later, at its peak in 1963, This Week was distributed with the Sunday editions of 42 newspapers for a total circulation of 14.6 million.
It was the oldest syndicated newspaper supplement in the United States when it went out of business in 1969. It was distributed with the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), the Boston Herald, and others. Magazine historian Phil Stephensen-Payne noted,
This Week was being published as the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine when publisher Joseph P. Knapp changed its name and began to syndicate it to other newspapers. The first issue appeared on February 24, 1935. The magazine's editor at the time was Marie Mattingly "Missy" Meloney, who professionally went by the name "Mrs. William Brown Meloney"; she had been editing the Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine since 1926. In The New York Times, Henry Raymont wrote:
In 1942, This Week cut its size down and eliminated run-overs onto back pages. It also changed to including 52% articles and 48% fiction; at one time it had contained 80% fiction.
William I. Nichols became editor of the magazine in June 1943, just before the death of Meloney the same month, and a year later the magazine started to turn a profit. In 1948, This Week surpassed the American Weekly as the American newspaper supplement with the largest advertising revenue. Nichols turned the financial fortunes of This Week around by "shun[ning] anything controversial":
By 1963, This Week reached its highest circulation.
Later, This Week was owned by Publication Corporation, which was taken over by Crowell, Collier & Macmillan in a January 1968 merger, but the magazine was "already fighting for survival".[citation needed] William Woestendiek, former editor of IBM's Think magazine and former city editor of The Houston Post, was brought in to revamp the editorial format. "We tried hard to turn out a better editorial product," an unnamed Crowell, Coller executive told The New York Times. "We succeeded in doing it, but nobody wanted it."
The merged company