This Week (magazine)

This Week
McClelland Barclay cover for This Week (September 24, 1939)
EditorMarie Mattingly Meloney (1935–1943)
Categoriesnews magazine, fiction
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherJoseph P. Knapp
Total circulation
(1963)
14.6 million
First issueFebruary 24, 1935
Final issueNovember 2, 1969
CompanyPublication Corporation[1]
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City, New York
LanguageEnglish

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.[2] 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.[3] 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,

"It grew from a circulation of four million in 1935 to nearly 12 million in 1957, far outstripping other fiction-carrying weeklies such as Collier's, Liberty and even The Saturday Evening Post (all of which eventually folded)."[4]
  1. ^ "Crowell Collier planning merger; offers $33 million stock to Publication Corp., Printers". The New York Times. January 10, 1968. Retrieved April 23, 2016 – via timesmachine.nytimes.com.
  2. ^ McKie, Roy (October 2011). "100 years of illustration and design". giam.typepad.com.
  3. ^ Raymont, Henry (August 14, 1969). "This Week Magazine ends publication Nov. 2". The New York Times. p. 27.
  4. ^ Stephensen-Payne, Phil. "Data 393". philsp.com. Galactic Central Publications.