Life (magazine)

===21st century===
In March 2000, Time Inc. announced it would cease regular publication of ''Life'' with the May issue.

<blockquote>"It's a sad day for us here," [[Don Logan]], chairman and chief executive of Time Inc., told CNN.com. "It was still in the black," he said, noting that ''Life'' was increasingly spending more to maintain its monthly circulation level of approximately 1.5 million. "''Life'' was a general interest magazine and since its reincarnation, it had always struggled to find its identity, to find its position in the marketplace."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2000/03/17/bizbuzz/life/|title=Time Inc. to cease publication of Life magazine|date=March 17, 2000|work=[[CNN]]}}</ref></blockquote>

The magazine's last issue featured a human interest story. In 1936, its first issue under Henry Luce featured a baby named George Story, with the headline "Life Begins"; over the years the magazine had published updates about the course of Story's life as he married, had children, and pursued a career as a journalist. After ''Time'' announced its pending closure in March, George Story happened to die of heart failure on April 4, 2000. The last issue of ''Life'' was titled "A Life Ends", featuring his story and how it had intertwined with the magazine over the years.<ref name="Sumner2010">{{cite book|author=David E. Sumner|title=The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7g9PgL_No0C&pg=PA89|year=2010|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-1-4331-0493-0|pages=89–}}</ref>

For ''Life'' subscribers, remaining subscriptions were honored with other Time Inc. magazines, such as ''Time''. In January 2001, these subscribers received a special, ''Life''-sized format of "The Year in Pictures" edition of ''Time'' magazine. It was a ''Life'' issue disguised under a ''Time'' logo on the front. Newsstand copies of this edition were published under the ''Life'' imprint.

While citing poor advertising sales and a difficult climate for selling magazine subscriptions, Time Inc. executives said a key reason for closing the title in 2000 was to divert resources to the company's other magazine launches that year, such as ''[[Real Simple]]''. Later that year, its owner, [[Time Warner]], struck a deal with the [[Tribune Company]] for [[Times Mirror]] magazines, which included ''Golf, Ski, Skiing, Field & Stream'', and ''Yachting''. [[AOL]] and [[Time Warner]] announced a $184 billion merger, the largest corporate merger in history, which was finalized in January 2001.<ref>{{cite web | title=Who Owns What: Time Warner Corporate Timeline | website=cjr.org | date=2006-08-18 | url=http://www.cjr.org/_deprecate/timewarner-timeline.asp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060818051718/http://www.cjr.org/_deprecate/timewarner-timeline.asp | archive-date=2006-08-18 | url-status=dead | access-date=2019-08-10}}</ref>

In 2001, Time Warner began publishing special newsstand "megazine" issues of ''Life'', on topics such as the [[September 11 attacks]] and the [[Holy Land]]. These issues, which were printed on thicker paper, were more like softcover books than magazines.{{Clarify|date=April 2021}}

Beginning in October 2004, ''Life'' was revived for a second time. It resumed weekly publication as a free supplement to U.S. newspapers, competing for the first time with the two industry heavyweights, ''[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]]'' and ''[[USA Weekend]]''. At its launch, it was distributed with more than 60 newspapers with a combined circulation of approximately 12 million. Among the newspapers to carry ''Life'' were the ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'', ''[[New York Daily News]]'', ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[The Denver Post|Denver Post]]'', and ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]''. Time Inc. made deals with several major newspaper publishers to carry the ''Life'' supplement, including [[Knight Ridder]] and [[the McClatchy Company]]. The launch of ''Life'' as a weekly newspaper supplement was conceived by Andrew Blau, who served as the President of ''Life''. [[Bill Shapiro]] was the founding editor of the weekly supplement.

This version of ''Life'' retained its trademark logo but sported a new cover motto, "America's Weekend Magazine." It measured 9½ x 11½ inches and was printed on glossy paper in full color. On September 15, 2006, ''Life'' was 19 pages of editorial content. The editorial content contained one full-page photo, of actress [[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]], and one three-page, seven-photo essay, of [[Kaiju Big Battel]]. On March 24, 2007, Time Inc. announced that it would fold the magazine as of April 20, 2007, although it would keep the web site.<ref name="timetoclose" /><ref name="usatoday" />

On November 18, 2008, [[Google]] began hosting an archive of the magazine's photographs, as part of a joint effort with ''Life''.<ref name="google">{{cite news|author=Ewen MacAskill in Washington |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/18/google-life-magazine-photographs-images |title=Google makes Life magazine photo archives available to the public |newspaper=Guardian |date= November 18, 2008|access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref> Many images in this archive had never been published in the magazine.<ref>{{cite news |title=Google gives online life to Life mag's photos |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hpwZcZap0g13zNOf8SxhiGlxYYCQD94I7JBO0 |quote=Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will include millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before. |agency=Associated Press |date=2008-11-19 |access-date=2008-11-19 }}</ref> The archive of over six million photographs from ''Life'' is also available through [[Google Cultural Institute]], allowing for users to create collections, and is accessible through [[Google image search]]. The full archive of the issues of the main run (1936–1972) is available through [[Google Book Search]].<ref name="Browse all issues">{{cite web|title=Life magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFAEAAAAMBAJ|website=Google Books|date = 14 December 1942|access-date=10 December 2016}}</ref>

Special editions of ''Life'' are published on notable occasions, such as a ''[[Bob Dylan]]'' edition on the occasion of his winning the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 2016, ''[[Paul McCartney|Paul at 75]]'' when Paul McCartney turned 75 in 2017, and ''"Life" Explores: The Roaring '20s'' in 2020.<ref>''"Life" Explores: The Roaring '20s: The Decade that Changed America'' (2020), New York: Meredith.</ref>

''Life'' is currently owned by [[Dotdash Meredith]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://websupport.meredith.com/hc/en-us/categories/4410289678103-LIFE|title=Meredith Customer Support-LIFE|publisher=Dotdash Meredith|accessdate=December 5, 2023}}</ref> which owns most former [[Time Inc.]] and [[Meredith Corporation]] assets.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/iacs-dotdash-buy-magazine-publisher-meredith-27-bln-deal-2021-10-06/|title=IAC's Dotdash to buy magazine publisher Meredith in $2.7 bln deal|first=Subrat|last=Patnaik|publisher=Reuters|date=October 6, 2021|accessdate=December 5, 2023}}</ref>

In 2024 it was announced that Bedford Media (owned by [[Karlie Kloss]] and [[Joshua Kushner]]) would be reviving the magazine in an agreement with Dotdash Meredith.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2024-03-28 |title=Karlie Kloss Is Relaunching LIFE Magazine |url=https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/karlie-kloss-relaunching-life-magazine-1235954452/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
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