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Reader’s Digest, The Ring, Better Homes & Gardens, Harvard Business Review & The Magazine Antiques Join The Magazine Media Centennial Club

Paul Kontonis

A Mr. Magazine™ Musing

 

Celebrating The Magazine Media Centennial Club… Mr. Magazine™ Identifies 54 Magazine Media Brands That Are Now 100 Years or Older.

 

How many media brands you know of are celebrating at least one hundred years of existence? Four magazines join the magazine media centennial club this year: Reader’s Digest (started Feb. 1922), The Ring and The Magazine Antiques that were also started in January of 1922, and Better Homes & Gardens which started as Fruit, Garden And Home in July 1922, and Harvard Business Review that celebrates its centennial in October of this year.

I have compiled a list of 54 magazine media brands that are at least 100 years old. Some are even 200 years plus. To be included in my list the magazine must still be published in print and is still available for the general public to subscribe to it or to buy it on the newsstands. All the magazines listed are United States of American based and published magazines.

Here is what I call the Magazine Media Centennial Club in alphabetical order:

Magazine Name Year It Was Founded

  1. American Cinematographer 1920
  2. American Legion 1919
  3. Architectural Digest 1920
  4. Barron’s 1921
  5. Bed Times 1917
  6. Better Homes & Gardens 1922
  7. Billboard 1894
  8. Bowlers Journal International 1913
  9. Cosmopolitan 1886
  10. Farm Journal 1877
  11. Forbes 1917
  12. Good Housekeeping 1885
  13. Harper’s 1850
  14. Harper’s Bazaar 1867
  15. Harvard Business Review 1922
  16. House Beautiful 1896
  17. National Defense 1920
  18. National Geographic 1888
  19. New Jersey League of Municipalities 1917
  20. Philadelphia magazine 1908
  21. Popular Mechanics 1902
  22. Popular Science 1872
  23. Progressive Farmer 1866
  24. Reader’s Digest 1922
  25. San Diego magazine 1886
  26. Scholastic 1920
  27. Scientific American 1845
  28. Signs of the Times 1874
  29. Scout Life (Boys Life) 1911
  30. Scouting 1913
  31. Success 1897
  32. Successful Farming 1902
  33. Sunset 1898
  34. The Atlantic 1857
  35. The Crisis 1910
  36. The Furrow 1895
  37. The Magazine Antiques 1922
  38. The Nation 1865
  39. The New Republic 1914
  40. The New York Times Magazine 1896
  41. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 1792
  42. The Progressive 1909
  43. The Ring 1922
  44. The Rotarian 1905
  45. The Saturday Evening Post 1821
  46. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1893
  47. The Watchtower 1879
  48. Town & Country 1846
  49. Vanity Fair 1913
  50. Variety 1905
  51. Vogue 1892
  52. Westways 1909
  53. Writer’s Digest 1920
  54. Yachting 1907

I welcome any additions, notes, or corrections regarding my attempt to document the Magazine Media Centennial Club. Feel free to email me at samir.husni@gmail.com Last update Jan. 20, 2022

Until next time, join me wishing Reader’s Digest, The Ring, The Magazine Antiques, Harvard Business Review, and Better Homes & Gardens a happy 100th birthday and Success magazine a happy 125th birthday. Onward and forward.Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, Ph.D.samir.husni@gmail.com