Guardian Weekly
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Half-Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Guardian Media Group |
| Editor | Abby Deveney |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Political alignment | Centre-left |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Kings Place, London, UK |
| Sister newspapers |
The Guardian, The Observer |
| ISSN | 0959-3608 |
| Website | www |
The Guardian Weekly is an internationally focused English-language newspaper based in London, UK. It is one of the world's oldest international newspapers and has readers in more than 170 countries. Editorial content is drawn from its sister publications, the British daily newspaper the Guardian and Sunday newspaper the Observer, and all three are published by the Guardian Media Group and owned by The Scott Trust Limited. The Guardian Weekly also contains articles from the Washington Post.
The Guardian Weekly is edited by Abby Deveney, who succeeded Natalie Bennett in March 2012. The editorial team in 2016 included Deveney, deputy editor Graham Snowdon, production editor Neil Willis, deputy production editor Emily El-Nusairi and assistant editors Isobel Montgomery and Jim Falzarano.
The first edition of the Manchester Guardian Weekly was printed on 4 July 1919, a week after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The Manchester Guardian viewed itself as a leading liberal voice and wanted to extend its reach, particularly in the United States, in the changing political climate after the First World War. The Weekly had the stated aim of "presenting what is best and most interesting in the Manchester Guardian, what is most distinctive and independent of time, in a compact weekly form". The initial reception was good. Before long the Manchester Guardian could boast “there is scarcely a corner of the civilised world to which it is not being posted regularly”, although it is worth noting that the newspaper was banned in Germany by Hitler for a time.
For a large part of its early life the newspaper was a half-broadsheet format. Initially the notion of ‘the best of the Guardian’ meant a weighty opinion piece for the front page. It evolved, under the editorship of John Perkin, in 1969, to include the use of pictures on the front page.
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