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 The Big Issue | |
| Editor-in-chief | Paul McNamee[1] |
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| Categories | Entertainment and Current Affairs |
| Frequency | weekly |
| Circulation | 57,059 (as of 2022)[2] |
| First issue | September 1991 |
| Company | The Big Issue[3] |
| Country | United Kingdom Australia Ireland Japan South Africa South Korea Namibia Kenya Taiwan[4] Malawi[5] |
| Based in | London, United Kingdom[6] |
| Language | English (UK Edition) |
| Website | bigissue.com |
The Big Issue is a United Kingdom-based street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents. The Big Issue is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people, or individuals at risk of homelessness, the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is the world's most widely circulated street newspaper.[7][8]
- ^ "Paul McNamee". bigissue.com. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "The Big Issue - National (Group)". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
- ^ "Contact Us". bigissue.com. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ^ "Introduction & History". Big Issue. Archived from the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ^ Masina, Lameck (13 March 2009). "Malawi Magazine to Help Provide Financial Support to Poor". Voice of America. Retrieved 5 May 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Contact Us". bigissue.com. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ Heinz, Teresa L. (2004). "Street Newspapers". In David Levinson (ed.). Encyclopedia of Homelessness. SAGE Publications. p. 538. ISBN 0-7619-2751-4.
- ^ Brown, Ann M. (2002). "Small Papers, Big Issues". Ryerson Review of Journalism. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2009.