Newsweek Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Founding and early years (1933β1961)=== [[File:Newsweek Jan 16 1939 Felix Frankfurter.jpg|thumb|right|The January 16, 1939 cover featured [[Felix Frankfurter]]]][[File:Newsweek WWII Armed Forces Overseas Edition 1944.jpg|thumb|right|May 8, 1944 WWII "Armed Forces Overseas Edition"]] ''News-Week'' was launched in 1933 by [[Thomas J. C. Martyn]], a former foreign-news editor for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. He obtained financial backing from a group of U.S. stockholders "which included [[Ward Cheney]], of the Cheney silk family, [[John Hay Whitney]], and [[Paul Mellon]], son of [[Andrew W. Mellon]]".{{r|Lundberg_1937}}{{rp|page=[https://archive.org/details/americas60famili0000unse/page/259/mode/1up 259]}} Paul Mellon's ownership in ''News-Week'' apparently represented "the first attempt of the Mellon family to function journalistically on a national scale".{{r|Lundberg_1937}}{{rp|page=[https://archive.org/details/americas60famili0000unse/page/260/mode/1up 260]}} The group of original owners invested around {{US$|2.5}}{{nbsp}}million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|2.5|1933|r=2}}{{nbsp}}million in {{Inflation/year|US}}). Other large stockholders prior to 1946 were public utilities investment banker Stanley Childs and Wall Street corporate lawyer Wilton Lloyd-Smith. Journalist [[Samuel T. Williamson]] served as the first editor-in-chief of ''News-Week''. The first issue of the magazine was dated February 17, 1933. Seven [[photograph]]s from the week's news were printed on the first issue's cover.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bztv.typepad.com/instanthistory/2007/02/newsweek_1_a_lo.html|title=Instant History: Review of First ''Newsweek'' with Cover Photo|publisher=BZTV|date=February 17, 1933|access-date=December 25, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025034807/http://bztv.typepad.com/instanthistory/2007/02/newsweek_1_a_lo.html|archive-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref> In 1937, ''News-Week'' merged with the weekly journal ''Today'', which had been founded in 1932 by future New York Governor and diplomat [[W. Averell Harriman]], and [[Vincent Astor]] of the prominent Astor family. As a result of the deal, Harriman and Astor provided $600,000 ({{Inflation|US|600000|1937|fmt=eq|r=-3}}) in venture capital funds and Vincent Astor became both the chairman of the board and its principal stockholder between 1937 and his death in 1959.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} In 1937 [[Malcolm Muir (publisher)|Malcolm Muir]] took over as president and editor-in-chief. He changed the name to ''Newsweek'', emphasized interpretive stories, introduced signed columns, and launched international editions.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} {{Anchor|Under ''Post'' ownership}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page