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{{Short description|Weekly news magazine}}
{{for multi|the Indian news magazine founded in 1982|The Week (Indian magazine)|other uses|The Week (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| title = The Week
| image_file = The Week US Cover December 16 2005 small.jpg
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Cover for the issue on December 17, 2010 (United States edition)
| editor = Caroline Law ([[United Kingdom]] edition) William Falk ([[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|title=ABC Brand report|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/50541344.pdf|access-date=15 November 2022|website=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|ABC]]|date=December 2021}}</ref> 416,358 (US)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/692019/the-week-us-circulation/ |title=Circulation of The Week in the United States from 1st half 2017 to 1st half 2021 |date= 29 September 2021 |publisher= [[Statista]]|access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
| circulation_year = 2021
| company = [[Future plc]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/16/country-life-owner-buys-dennis-publishing-in-300m-deal|title=Country Life owner buys Dennis Publishing in £300m deal|date=August 16, 2021|website=the Guardian}}</ref>
| publisher =
| firstdate = 1995 (UK edition) April 2001 (US edition) October 2008 (Australian edition)
| country = [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]], [[Australia]] (formerly)
| based = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] ([[United States]] edition)
[[London]], [[United Kingdom]] ([[United Kingdom]] edition)
| language = [[English language|English]] (all editions)
| website = [https://www.theweek.co.uk theweek.co.uk] (UK edition) [https://theweek.com theweek.com] (US edition)
| issn = 1533-8304 
| 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|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|work=Paste Magazine|access-date=10 August 2015|date=26 November 2009}}</ref> In April 2001, the magazine began publishing an American edition;<ref name=pasm/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Steve Black|title=Life spans of Library Journal's 'Best Magazines of the Year'|journal=Serials Review|date=2009|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 the year 2021, ''The Week'' celebrated its 20 year anniversary of its first publication in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theweek.com/articles/977049/short-history-week|title=A short history of the 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|website=The Week|access-date=22 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Week Junior|url=http://www.sla.org.uk/blg-the-week-junior.php|website=School Library Association|access-date=22 August 2017}}</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|title=The Week calls it a day|work=The Australian|access-date=12 November 2020|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/the-week-calls-it-a-day/story-e6frg996-1226499205638/ | date=19 October 2012|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|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, and presents a broad spectrum of political viewpoints. Some summaries are based on articles in foreign media that were originally published in a language other than English.

==Website==
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>

==References==
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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,'' March 13, 2011]

==External links==
* [http://www.theweek.com Official website (U.S. edition)]
* [http://www.theweek.co.uk Official website (U.K. edition)]

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