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The Week
File:THE WEEK logoRS.jpg
Masthead design by Mario Garcia[1]
Managing Editor Philip Mathew
Categories News magazine
Frequency Weekly
Circulation 204,429
Publisher Jacob Mathew
Founder K. M. Mathew
Year founded 1982 [2]
First issue 26 December 1982
Company Malayala Manorama
Country India
Based in Kochi
Language English
Website www.theweek.in

The Week is an Indian newsmagazine published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd.[3] The magazine is published from Kochi and is currently printed in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kottayam. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations,[4] it is the largest circulated English newsmagazine in India.

History

Chief Editors

The Week was launched by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd in December, 1982, and has had two chief editors, before the designation was discontinued.

  • K. M. Mathew (Padma Bhushan,1998),[5] the founder chief editor, remained in office until 25 December 1988. Popularly known as Mathukuttychayan, he was chairman of the Press Trust of India, president of the Indian Newspaper Society and chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He died on 1 August 2010. The obit which appeared in The Times of India said, "The highly acclaimed English news magazine-The Week-was his brainchild."[6]
  • K. M. Mathew's eldest son, Mammen Mathew,[7] (Padma Shri, 2005),[8] took over on 1 January 1989, and continued until 9 December 2007. He is currently chief editor of the Malayala Manorama daily, the group's flagship publication.

Currently, The Week does not have a chief editor. K. M. Mathew's second son, Philip Mathew, managing editor since 1 January 1989, is the highest-ranked editor.

Publishers

  • Philip Mathew, the first publisher of the magazine, held the post until December 1988.
  • Jacob Mathew: 1 January 1989 till date. K.M. Mathew's third son, he is currently president of WAN-IFRA. He is the second Asian and the first Indian to hold the post.[9]

Editors

The magazine has had two editors, after which the designation was discontinued.

Editor-in-Charge

Currently, the editor-in-charge is responsible for selection of news under The Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867. The present editor-in-charge, T R Gopaalakrishnan, took over on 18 December 1988.

Design and style

The magazine was initially designed in-house, and was periodically redesigned. A major content overhaul was led by Peter Lim, author and former editor-in-chief of The Straits Times/Singapore Press Holdings. He authored the book Chronicle of Singapore: Fifty Years of Headline News.[11]

The two major redesigns were led by:

Based in Sydney, Australia, Ong[13][14] was formerly Picture & Graphics Editor of The Straits Times. He is principal consultant at Checkout Australia, and was regional director for the Society of News Design. Garcia owns the premier newspaper design firm, Garcia Media.[15] Both of them also helped redesign the Malayala Manorama.

In the early years, cartoonist Mario Miranda designed many covers for The Week. He also had a regular pocket cartoon in the magazine.

The Week does not have published stylebook, but generally follows the down style for capitalisation.[16] Its dateline carries the pull date, not the date of issue.

Columnists

The Week has six regular guest columns:

In addition to the guests, there are two staff columns.

  • Power Point by K. S. Sachidananda Murthy,[17] resident editor in New Delhi.
  • PMO Beat by R. Prasannan, chief of bureau, New Delhi.

Former Columnists

Former columnists of the magazine include Priyanka Chopra, Khushwant Singh, P. C. Alexander, R. N. Malhotra, former foreign secretary A. P. Venkateswaran, Harsha Bhogle, NDTV 24x7 managing editor Sreenivasan Jain, Manjula Padmanabhan, Santosh Desai [18] and Antara Dev Sen,[19] among others.

Supplements and Standalones

Two supplements go free with The Week:

  • Health, a fortnightly on health and fitness.
  • The Wallet, a monthly guide to personal finance and investment.

The standalone magazines are:

  • The Man:[20] A monthly lifestyle magazine, THE MAN is published from New Delhi and is edited by K. Sunil Thomas.
  • WatchTime India: A quarterly magazine on luxury watches, it is published from New Delhi and is edited by Neha S. Bajpai.

The Week Hay Festival

Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy (in purple shirt) at The Week Hay Festival 2010

Hay Kerala 2010

The Week was the title sponsor,[21] of the inaugural Hay Festival[22] in India. Held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, from 12 to 14 November 2010, the festival was held at Kanakakunnu Palace, the former summer retreat of the Travancore royal family.

Writers and speakers for the event included Mani Shankar Aiyar, Rosie Boycott, Gillian Clarke, William Dalrymple, Tishani Doshi, Sonia Faleiro, Sebastian Faulks, Nik Gowing, Manu Joseph, N. S. Madhavan, Jaishree Misra, Vivek Narayanan, Michelle Paver, Basharat Peer, Hannah Rothschild, K. Satchidanandan, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Schama, Vikram Seth, C. P. Surendran, Miguel Syjuco, Shashi Tharoor, Amrita Tripathi, Pavan Varma and Paul Zacharia.

The event closed with a concert by Bob Geldof, where Sting made a surprise appearance.

Awards

Year Awardee Award Agency Story
2000 Jayant Mammen Mathew & Maria Abraham SAJA Journalism Award South Asian Journalists Association (U.S.) Rural reporting
2002 Deepak Tiwari The Sarojini Naidu Prize The Hunger Project (India) Women in panchayati raj
2007 The Week Media Excellence Award Amity (India) Business reporting
2007 Dnyanesh V. Jathar Excellence in Journalism Award Ramnath Goenka Foundation (India) Life of AIDS orphans
2008 Bidisha Ghosal The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting The Statesman Ltd (India) Sexual exploitation of widows in Vidarbha
2009 Bidisha Ghosal IPI-India Award (Shared) International Press Institute,[23] India Chapter (India) Sexual exploitation of widows in Vidarbha
2009 Kavitha Muralidharan PII-ICRC Award Press Institute of India & International Committee of the Red Cross (India) Abduction of Tamil rebels by the Sri Lankan Army
2010 Mathew T. George Excellence in Journalism (International) Union Catholique Internationale de la Presse[24] (Burkina Faso) Robertsonian translocation among Bhopal gas tragedy victims
2010 Syed Nazakat Finalist for Daniel Pearl International Award Daniel Pearl Foundation[25] (Switzerland) Multiple investigative stories
2010 The Week Gold (Magazine cover design) WAN-IFRA[26] (Malaysia) Cover for Health
2010 The Week Gold (Special issue) WAN-IFRA (Malaysia) On 25 years after Indira Gandhi
2011 Bhanu Prakash Chandra Gold (Feature photography) WAN-IFRA (Thailand) Biking through the Himalayas
2011 The Week IPI India award for excellence in journalism (shared) International Press Institute[27] (India) Fake medical and dental colleges

In 2001, Special Cover Designer Ajay Pingle entered the Limca Book of Records for designing the most number of covers for an Indian newsmagazine.[citation needed]

Man of the year

  • 2009 – Brother Christudas, for Little Flower Leprosy Welfare Association[28]
  • 2010 – Satinath Sarangi, for voicing Bhopal disaster victims[29]
  • 2011 – Ajeet Singh, for Guria[30]

References

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