Sunday Times Magazine

The Sunday Times Magazine

Cover of The Sunday Times Magazine (December 15, 2016), featuring Australian singer Kylie Minogue
Editor	Sarah Baxter
Categories	Newspaper supplement
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	904,548 (print) and 125,116 (digital) as part of The Sunday Times
Year founded	1962
Company	Times Newspapers Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	Sunday Times
ISSN	0956-1382

The Sunday Times Magazine is a magazine included with The Sunday Times. In 1962 it became the first colour supplement to be published as a supplement to a UK newspaper, and its arrival "broke the mould of weekend newspaper publishing". The magazine is renowned for its in-depth journalism, high-quality photography and extensive range of subject matter. It has had many famous contributors, including international authors, photographers and artists.

The first edition of The Sunday Times Colour Section was published on 4 February 1962, and included some significant harbingers of the Swinging Sixties. These included 11 photographs on the cover of Jean Shrimpton wearing a Mary Quant dress, photographed by David Bailey, and a new James Bond story by Ian Fleming, entitled "The Living Daylights" – a title that would be used for a Bond film 25 years later. The publication subsequently changed its title to The Sunday Times Colour Magazine, and was modified shortly afterwards to The Sunday Times Magazine. The first editor was Mark Boxer; subsequent editors included Godfrey Smith, Hunter Davies, Ron Hall, Philip Clarke and Robin Morgan. The present editor, Sarah Baxter, took over in 2009.

Over the past half-century, the magazine has published lengthy and detailed articles on many major events, from the Great Train Robbery to 9/11, from Beatlemania to Britart, and from the 1969 moon landing to the 2012 London Olympic Games. The magazine published images from the Vietnam war by the award-winning photographer Don McCullin, a photo-essay on the Vatican by Eve Arnold, many portraits and photo-essays by Lord Snowdon, and Bert Stern's final photoshoot with Marilyn Monroe, among many other photographic collections.