Time (magazine)

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Time《时代周刊》(trademarked in capitals as TIME) is an American news magazine. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. As of 2009, Time no longer publishes a Canadian advertiser edition. The South Pacific edition, covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney.
As of mid-2006, Richard Stengel is the managing editor.

Managing Editor: Richard Stengel
Categories: Newsmagazine
Frequency: Weekly
Circulation: 3,360,135
First issue: March 3, 1923
Company: Time Inc. (Time Warner)
Country: United States
Language: English
Website: www.time.com
ISSN: 0040-781X

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The distinctive Time writing style was parodied in 1936 by Wolcott Gibbs in an article in The New Yorker: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind Where it all will end, knows God!" The early days of incessantly inverted sentences, "beady-eyed tycoons" and "great and good friends", however, have long since vanished.

Up until the mid-1970s or so,Time had a weekly section called "Listings", which contained capsule summaries and/or reviews of then-current significant films, plays, musicals, television programs, and literary bestsellers, much like The New Yorker's section "Current Events".

Time is also known for its signature red border, introduced in 1927 and changed only three times since then. The issue released shortly after the September 11 attacks on the United States featured a black border to symbolize mourning. However, this edition was a special "extra" edition published quickly for the breaking news of the event; the next regularly scheduled issue contained the red border.

Time would release another special edition magazine in June 2009 following the death of Michael Jackson. Additionally, the April 28, 2008 issue of Time featured a change from the signature red border: The 2008 Earth Day issue, dedicated to environmental issues, contained a green border.

In 2007, Time engineered a style overhaul of the magazine. Among other changes, the magazine reduced the red cover border in order to promote featured stories, enlarged column titles, reduced the number of featured stories, increased white space around articles, and accompanied opinion pieces with photographs of the writers. The changes have met both criticism and praise.

On September 10, 2007, the Supreme Court of Indonesia awarded former Indonesian President Suharto damages against Time Asia magazine, ordering it to pay him one trillion rupiah for libel. The High Court reversed the judgment of the Appeal Court and Central Jakarta District Court (made in 2000 and 2001). Suharto sought more than US$27 billion ($32bn) in the suit against US-based Time over a 1999 article which published that he transferred stolen money abroad.

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Main article: Time Person of the Year
Time's most famous feature throughout its history has been the annual "Person of the Year" (formerly "Man of the Year") cover story, in which Time recognizes the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news. Despite the title, the recipients are not necessarily individuals or even human beings – for instance, on January 3, 1983 the personal computer was recognized as "Machine of the Year" (Time.com). In 1989 "Endangered Earth" was named as "Planet Of The Year." In 1999, Albert Einstein was chosen by Time as Person of the Century.

Controversy has occasionally arisen because of the designation of alleged dictators and warmongers as "Persons of the Year". The distinction is supposed to go to the person who, for good or ill, has most affected the course of the year; it is therefore not necessarily an honor or a reward. In the past, such figures as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have been Man of the Year. In 2001, Time was accused of giving way to political correctness when it named Rudy Giuliani Person of the Year. Corazon Aquino who restored democracy in the Philippines and impressed the U.S. Congress with her speeches is one of four women to grace Time as Woman of the Year.

In 2006 the Person of the Year was designated as "You", a move that was met with split reviews. Some thought the concept was creative; others wanted an actual person of the year. Editor Stengel reflected that, if it had been a mistake, "we're only going to make it once."

In 2008, the person of the year was Barack Obama, with Sarah Palin as a runner up. Obama is the twelfth U.S. President (or President-elect) so honored, following a line of every president since Franklin Roosevelt, with the sole exception of Gerald Ford. 

Main article: Time 100
In recent years, Time has assembled an annual list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Originally, they had made a list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. These issues usually have the front cover filled with pictures of people from the list and devote a substantial amount of space within the magazine to the 100 articles about each of the people on the list. There have, in some cases, been over 100 people, when two people have made the list together, sharing one spot.

The magazine also compiled "All-TIME 100 best novels" and "All-TIME 100 best movies" lists in 2005,and "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME" in 2007.

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Main article: Time For Kids
Written by young reporters, Time For Kids is a division magazine of Time that is especially published for children and is mainly distributed in classrooms. TFK contains some national news, a "Cartoon of the Week", and a variety of articles concerning popular culture. An annual issue concerning the environment is distributed near the end of the U.S. school term. The publication hardly ever reaches above fifteen pages front and back. It is used in many libraries. 

Briton Hadden (1923-1929)
Henry Luce (1929-1949)
Thomas S. Matthews (1949-1953)
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Thomas S. Matthews (1943-1949)
Roy Alexander (1949-1960)
Otto Fuerbringer (1960-1968)
Henry Grunwald (1968-1977)
Ray Cave (1979-1985)
Jason McManus (1985-1987)
Henry Muller (1987-1993)
James R. Gaines (1993-1995)
Walter Isaacson (1996-2000)
Jim Kelly (2001-2006)
Richard Stengel (2006-present)

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Aravind Adiga, Time correspondent for three years, winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction
James Agee was a book and movie editor for Time
Margaret Carlson was the first female columnist for Time.
Whittaker Chambers worked at Time from 1939 to 1948, ending as senior editor and then special projects editor to Henry Luce
Richard Corliss is the film critic for the magazine. Corliss has been with it since 1980.
Nancy Gibbs, essayist and editor-at-large; has written more than 100 Time cover stories
Lev Grossman, brother of Bathsheba and Austin, writes primarily about books for the magazine.
Robert Hughes was Time's long-tenured art critic.
Joe Klein is an author (Primary Colors) and a columnist for the magazine who writes the "In the Arena" column for the magazine.
Charles Krauthammer is a commentator for the Washington Post. He also contributes essays to Time.
Andre Laguerre, Paris bureau chief 1948-1956, London bureau chief 1951-1956, also wrote about sports for Time; later longtime managing editor of Sports Illustrated.
Nathaniel Lande, author, filmmaker, and former creative director of Time.
Will Lang Jr. 1936–1968, Time Life International
Michael Schuman is an American author and journalist who specializes in Asian economics, politics and history. He is currently the Asia business correspondent for TIME Magazine based in Hong Kong.
Robert D. Simon 1950–1987, Time Life International
Joel Stein is a sometimes controversial writer for the magazine who wrote the Joel 100 just after Time Magazine's Most Influential issue in 2006.
David Von Drehle current Editor-at-Large

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