This Week (magazine)

This Week was a nationally syndicated Sunday magazine supplement that was included in American newspapers between 1935 and 1969. In the early 1950s, it accompanied 37 Sunday newspapers. A decade later, at its peak in 1963, This Week was distributed with the Sunday editions of 42 newspapers for a total circulation of 14.6 million.

When it went out of business in 1969 it was the oldest syndicated newspaper supplement in the United States. The newspapers it was distributed with included the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) and the Boston Herald. Magazine historian Phil Stephensen-Payne noted, "It grew from a circulation of four million in 1935 to nearly 12 million in 1957, far outstripping other fiction-carrying weeklies such as Collier's, Liberty and even The Saturday Evening Post (all of which eventually folded)."

This Week was being published as the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine when publisher Joseph P. Knapp changed its name and began to syndicate it to other newspapers. The first issue appeared on February 24, 1935. The magazine's editor at the time was Marie Mattingly "Missy" Meloney, who used the professional name Mrs. William Brown Meloney; she had been editing the Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine since 1926. In The New York Times, Henry Raymont wrote:

During the early years, This Week's editorial content was made up mainly of fiction articles by such major writers as Sax Rohmer, Erle Stanley Gardner, Pearl Buck, P.G.Wodehouse and Bruce Catton. It also published articles on national affairs by such major writers as former President Herbert H. Hoover, Adlai E. Stevenson, Richard M. Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller.

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