The Week
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The Week is a British weekly current affairs magazine founded by Jolyon Connell in 1995. Now edited by Jeremy O'Grady, it provides a digest of the week's news and editorial commentary from a large number of news outlets, mainly from British print media but also including American and non-print media. Coverage and editorials from multiple political viewpoints are included. In addition to news coverage, The Week gives attention to the arts, with sections on music, film, television, and celebrities.
A U.S. edition was launched in April 2001, and an Australian edition was launched on October 31, 2008. All editions are published by Dennis Publishing Ltd.
[edit] Defunct magazines known as The Week
The Week has been the title of two other weekly news magazines founded in the United Kingdom and a seminal literary magazine in Canada. These are not connected in any way with the currently published magazine.
The Week (1883-1896) was "Canada's leading political and literary periodical." [1] Prominent contributors included poet Charles G.D. Roberts, journalist and novelist Sara Jeannette Duncan, and political critic and intellectual Goldwin Smith.
Marxist journalist Claud Cockburn launched the first British publication known as The Week as a newsletter in the spring of 1933, after he had returned from reporting on Germany. It focused on the rise of fascism, in a style that anticipated Private Eye and won a wide readership, according to Cockburn's son.[2] Jessica Mitford attributed the journal's influence to its use of undercover sources.[3] It ceased publication in 1941.[4]
Ken Coates and Pat Jordan refounded The Week some time before 1965[1]. They were Marxist members of the British Labour Party connected to the New Left Review, to which Claud Cockburn occasionally contributed. Their version of The Week provided a socialist critique of Harold Wilson's government, notably over its failure to oppose the Vietnam War. Jordan edited the paper until 1968, when he cooperated with Tariq Ali in launching The Black Dwarf. At that time The Week became a monthly magazine called International, which was published by the International Marxist Group.
[edit] References
- ^ Tausky, Thomas E.. ""The Intellectual Possibilities of a Mere Colony": The Week in Search of a New Canadian Soul". CNET Networks, Inc.. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199707/ai_n8769410/. Retrieved on 2008-10-14.
- ^ My Father, Claud Cockburn, the MI5 Suspect, from a June 2005 article on the CounterPunch website
- ^ A Fine Old Conflict, quoted in Spartacus Educational
- ^ Spartacus Educational
