Outside (magazine)
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| Editor-in-Chief | Lawrence J. Burke |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (June 2012) | 686,623[1] |
| First issue | September 1977 |
| Company | Outside, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Boulder, Colorado |
| Language | English |
| Website | outsideonline |
| ISSN | 0278-1433 |
Outside is a magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue of the Outside magazine was published in September 1977.[2] It is published by Outside Inc., a company that also owns various other ventures.
History
[edit]Outside founders were Jann Wenner (the first editor in chief), William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), and Jack Ford (an assistant to founding publisher Donald Welsh and a son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford).[3] Wenner sold Outside to Lawrence J. Burke two years later. Burke merged it into his magazine Mariah (founded in 1976) and after a period of using the name Mariah/Outside kept the Outside name for the merged magazine.[4]
In 2021, Burke sold Outside to Pocket Outdoor Media.[5] In March 2025, 35 journalists signed a letter requesting their names be removed from the magazine’s masthead in protest over recent layoffs and censorship.[6]
Notable contributors
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Christopher Keyes is the current editor.[7] John Rasmus, the editor of Outside, launched the career of Jon Krakauer and other freelance travel and adventure writers. Though the magazine has tilted toward a more commercial aesthetic in recent years, it has also recruited figures from the literary world for freelance assignments. Writers whose work has appeared in Outside include Sebastian Junger, Bruce Barcott, Tim Cahill, Daniel Coyle, E. Annie Proulx, naturalist and author David Quammen, and Bob Shacochis. Songwriter David Berkeley also worked for Outside.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. June 30, 2012. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
- ^ "List of Top 10 Best Sports Magazines of All time". Sporty Ghost. March 3, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
- ^ Dougherty, Philip H. (May 6, 1977). "Advertising: Outside More Moss for Rolling Stone?". The New York Times. p. 83. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (October 27, 1997). "Outside Magazine Succeeds by Defying Categories". The New York Times. pp. D1, D13. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ^ Vitu, Teya (February 22, 2021). "Santa Fe-based 'Outside' magazine sold to Pocket Outdoor Media of Colorado". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
- ^ Watson, Lauren. "Inside Outside". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
- ^ "Outside Magazine Staff". Outside. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
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