Weekly Standard
March 7, 2016 issue of The Weekly Standard
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| Editor | Steven F. Hayes |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | Terry Eastland |
| Total circulation (December 2012) |
104,682 |
| First issue | September 1995 |
| Company | Clarity Media Group |
| Based in | Washington, D.C. |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1083-3013 |
The Weekly Standard is an American conservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title on September 18, 1995. Originally edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of neoconservatism" and as "the neo-con bible". It is currently owned by MediaDC, a subsidiary of Clarity Media Group, itself a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation.
Many of the magazine's articles are written by members of conservative think tanks located in Washington: the American Enterprise Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Hudson Institute, as well as the Foreign Policy Initiative. Individuals who have written for the magazine include Elliott Abrams, Peter Berkowitz, John R. Bolton, Ellen Bork, David Brooks, Christopher Hitchens, Roger Kimball, Harvey Mansfield, Joe Queenan, and John Yoo. The magazine's website also produces regular online-only commentaries.
Although the publication had, as of 2006[update], never been profitable and reputedly lost "more than a million dollars a year," News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch had previously dismissed the idea of selling it. In June 2009, a report circulated that a sale of the publication to Philip Anschutz was imminent, with Murdoch's position being that, having purchased The Wall Street Journal in 2007, his interest in the smaller publication had diminished.The Washington Examiner reported that the Examiner's parent company, the Anschutz-owned Clarity Media Group, had purchased the Standard. After the sale to the Clarity Media Group, the Standard increased its paid circulation by 39 percent between its June 2009 and June 2010 BPA statements.
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