This article is about the British magazine. For other uses, see New Statesman (disambiguation).
British political and cultural magazine
New Statesman
Cover of the 14–20 April 2023 issue celebrating the magazine's 110th anniversary
Editor
Jason Cowley
Categories
Politics, geopolitics, books and culture and foreign affairs
Frequency
Weekly
Total circulation (2023)
43,230[1]
Founder
Sidney Webb
Beatrice Webb
Founded
1913; 111 years ago (1913)
First issue
12 April 1913 (12 April 1913-month)
Company
New Statesman Media Group
Country
United Kingdom
Based in
London
Language
English
Website
www.newstatesman.com
ISSN
1364-7431
OCLC
4588945
The New Statesman is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.[2] Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director. The longest-serving editor was Kingsley Martin (1930–1960), and the current editor is Jason Cowley, who assumed the post in 2008.
Today, the magazine is a print–digital hybrid. According to its present self-description, it has a liberal and progressive political position.[3] Jason Cowley, the magazine's editor, has described the New Statesman as a publication "of the left, for the left"[4] but also as "a political and literary magazine" with "sceptical" politics.
The magazine has recognised and published new writers and critics, as well as encouraged major careers. Its contributors have included John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Hitchens, and Paul Johnson. Historically, the magazine was jocularly referred to as The Staggers -- an example of Oxford "-er" undergraduate slang. The nickname is now used as the title of its rolling politics blog.[5]
Circulation was at its highest in the mid-1960s at 93,000.[6] The magazine encountered substantial difficulties in the following decades as readership fell, but it was growing again by the mid-2010s.[7] In 2020, the certified average circulation was 36,591.[1] Traffic to the magazine's website that year reached a new high with 27 million page views and four million distinct users.[8] Associated websites have included CityMetric (now defunct), Spotlight and NewStatesman Tech.[9] In 2018, New Statesman America was launched.
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^"About New Statesman". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
^Burrell, Ian (29 November 2015). "Why the left-wing New Statesman is stubbornly resisting the lure of Corbynmania". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
^"The Staggers". Newstatesman.com. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
^Smith, Adrian (1995). The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931. Portland, OR: F. Cass. p. 2. ISBN 9780714641690.
^"New Statesman reaching more readers than ever", New Statesman, 12 February 2015.
^"Record traffic for the New Statesman website in June 2016". New Statesman. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
^Albeanu, Catalina (18 September 2014). "How data is central to the New Statesman's digital 'spin-offs'". www.journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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