Parade (magazine)

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Parade
Parade magazine cover 9-6-09.jpg
September 6, 2009 issue
EditorAnne Krueger
FrequencyWeekly (Sundays)
Circulation 32 million
(formerly)
PublisherThe Arena Group
Founder Marshall Field III
Founded1941;83 years ago (1941)
First issueMay 31, 1941 (1941-05-31)
Final issueNovember 13, 2022 (2022-11-13)
(printed) December 31, 2023 (2023-12-31)
(e-edition)
Company Parade Media
Country United States
Website parade.com
OCLC 1772138

Parade was an American nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine, distributed in more than 700 newspapers nationwide in the United States until 2022. [1] The most widely read magazine in the U.S., Parade had a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 54.1 million. [2] Anne Krueger had been the magazine's editor since 2015. [3]

Contents

The November 13, 2022, issue was the final edition printed and inserted in newspapers nationwide, but Parade continued as an e-magazine on newspaper websites. [4] The December 31, 2023, edition was the final e-magazine edition. [5] [6]

Parade now exists as a website and emailed newsletter for those who sign up for it.[ citation needed ]

Company history

The magazine was founded by Marshall Field III in 1941, with the first issue published May 31 [7] as Parade: The Weekly Picture Newspaper for 5 cents per copy. [4] It sold 125,000 copies that year. [4] By 1946, Parade had achieved a circulation of 3.5 million.

John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune , bought Parade in 1958. Booth Newspapers purchased it in 1973. Booth was purchased by Advance Publications in 1976, and Parade became a separate operating unit within Advance. [8]

In 2014, Athlon Media Group (later called AMG/Parade and now known as Parade Media) purchased it from Advance Publications. [9] In 2022, The Arena Group (formerly The Maven), which also operates Sports Illustrated , TheStreet and numerous other brands, [10] bought Parade from Athlon for $16 million as a mix of cash and equity. [10]

Publishing schedule

Beginning on the weekend of December 28, 2019, Parade changed its publishing schedule to skip up to six weekends a year, planning to publish combined holiday issues. The first such combined publication was a Christmas-themed issue published the weekend of December 21, 2019. [11] [12] The magazine published the weekend of April 4, 2020, also covered the weekend of April 11; Easter was April 12. [13] No magazine was published on the weekend of May 2, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] The magazine published the weekend of May 16 also covered the weekend of May 23; Memorial Day was May 25. [15] The magazine published the weekend of June 27 also covered the weekend of July 4, Independence Day. [16] The magazine published the weekend of August 29 also covered the weekend of September 5; Labor Day was September 7. [17] The magazine published the weekend of December 19 also covered the weekend of December 26. In 2021, the magazine was not scheduled to be published the weekends of April 3, May 29, July 3, July 31, September 4 or December 25. [18]

In September 2022, The Arena Group announced that Parade would end print publication in November, [19] but would continue in its online incarnation. The final printed edition, initially planned for November 6, ran November 13, 2022. [20] The final e-edition ran December 31, 2023. [5]

Parade now exists as a website and an emailed newsletter edition for those who sign up for it.[ citation needed ]

Distribution

Throughout 2016, Gannett Company, which had produced USA Weekend , the most direct competitor to Parade until its December 2014 discontinuation, added Parade to many of its Sunday newspapers as a replacement.

Parade Digital Partners is a distribution network that includes the website Parade.com and more than 700 of the magazine's partner newspaper websites. Parade Digital Partners has a reach of more than 30 million monthly unique visitors (comScore Q1 2014).

Features

The magazine typically has one main feature article, often a smaller feature article, and a number of regular columns. There is also advertising for consumer products, sometimes in the print edition appearing with clippable coupons or tear-off business reply cards.

Special editions

Publishing lag time

The magazine had a lag time to publication of about ten days, which occasionally caused the magazine to print statements that were out of date by the time Parade was publicly available in a weekend newspaper.

The January 6, 2008, edition cover and main article asked whether Benazir Bhutto was "America's best hope against Al-Qaeda," but on December 27, 2007, she had been assassinated. [27] Readers and media complained the magazine had an additional week of lag time due to the holiday season. [28] [29] [30]

A similar incident occurred in the February 11, 2007, issue when Walter Scott's "Personality Parade" reported that Barbaro, an American thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 2006 Kentucky Derby, was in a stable condition. Barbaro had been euthanized thirteen days earlier, on January 29, 2007. [31]

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