America (magazine) 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! ==History== The Jesuit provinces of the U.S.A. founded ''America'' in New York in 1909 and continue to publish the weekly printed magazine. [[Francis X. Talbot]] was [[editor-in-chief]] from 1936 to 1944.<ref name="talbot">{{Cite journal|last=LaFarge|first=John|date=July 1, 1956|title=Obituary: Father Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J., 1889β1953|url=https://jesuitonlinelibrary.bc.edu/?a=d&d=wlet19560701-01.2.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|url-status=live|journal=[[Woodstock Letters]]|volume=LXXXV|issue=3|pages=341|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217152248/https://jesuitonlinelibrary.bc.edu/?a=d&d=wlet19560701-01.2.5&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|archive-date=December 17, 2019|access-date=December 17, 2019|via=Jesuit Online Library}}</ref> [[Matt Malone, S.J.|Matt Malone]] became the fourteenth editor-in-chief on 1 October 2012, the youngest in the magazine's history. In September 2013, the magazine published an interview of [[Pope Francis]] with his fellow Jesuit [[Antonio Spadaro]]. In the spring of 2014, Malone announced that ''America'' would open a bureau in Rome with [[Gerard O'Connell]] as correspondent. On February 28, 2017, ''America'' launched a podcast, [[Jesuitical (podcast)|Jesuitical]], targeted at young Catholics.<ref>{{cite web|date=2017-02-28|title=Welcome to jesuitical|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/02/28/welcome-jesuitical|access-date=2018-05-12}}</ref> In 2022 Matt Malone concluded his editorship after ten years.<ref>Malone, Matt. 2022. "A Last Word." ''America'' 227 (5): 3.</ref><ref>"After Ten Years at the helm of the venerable Jesuit magazine ''America.''" ''First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life'', no. 326, Oct. 2022, p. 68.</ref> Sam Sawyer became the fifteenth editor.<ref>O'Loughlin, Michael J.(2022) "Father Sam Sawyer Named 15th Editor in Chief of America Magazine." ''America'' 227.1: 1β2.</ref> 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