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Magazine launches & events 2000

Magazines listed by cover date with most recent at top. Also with alphabeticlinks to magazines on the right. 
One (US)
December. OneMedia Inc. $4.95/£4. Editorial director: Marguerite Kramer; editor in chief Stacy Morrison 
192 pages of upmarket interiors, plus insert page of opaque paper. Used 8-page section with fifth colour silver ink. Invited readers to join a reader panel. Distributed by Comag(www.magazinecafe.co.uk)
Mondo
November. Cabal. £1.50 special price (£3). Editor: Push 
Strapline: 'Having a good time all the time'. 
Cabal, founded by former IPC editorial director Sally O'Sullivan, featured in BBC2 series in autumn 1999. 
Cover used spot varnish. Closed May 2001. Cabal taken over by Highbury in 2003  
Cabal profile
Men's magazines case study
MP3X
November. IT Publishing UK Ltd. £3.50. Editor: Dean Reilly 
With CD
Harpers& Queen - 30th birthday
November. Conde Nast. £3.10 
With H&Q Men (guest editor Paul Smith)
www.harpersandqueen.co.uk
Women's magazines case study
Bare
September/October. JohnBrown, London. £2.80, 164 pages. Editor: Ilse Crawford 
'Being and well-being' health magazine.Closed May 2001 (fifth issue). John Brown later sold all consumer magazines to IFG
Women's magazines case study
Cats Today
October/November.Cats Today Ltd. £2.50 6/year
i-D
October. LevelprintLtd. £3.10 
The Self issue (not a first issue). Spot varnish 
Star
October18. BBC. £1.60
Hello! For 'tweenagers' aged between 11 and 16 who were too smart for pre-teen magazines, but too young for Company. Closed a year later
Document Snowboard
September. £2.95 
'For snowboarders by mud wrestlers'
Eve magazine Eve
September. BBC. £2.70
'The original woman' strapline. Launched against Emap's Red and IPC's Nova for maturing women who had outgrown Cosmo and Elle
KnowYour Destiny
Autumn. News Group Newspapers. £2.50
Mystic Meg's magazine. Free mystical pendulum
Business 2.0
June. Future Publishing Ltd (part of the Future Network plc). £1 first issue
UK launch for Future's successful US new economy magazine. Editor in chief Mark Halper. Aggressive subscription drive: 12 issues for £9.99. Closed May 2001 after the 'dotcom bubble'burst Business2.0
HotDog
July. IFG (I Feel Good). £1.50starter price. 
Company founded by Loaded launch editor James Brown who had lost editorship of GQ in mid 1999 over an article featuring Rommel. Cover used spot varnish
hotdogmagazine.com
Aura
Parkhill. £2.50; 164 pages.Chairman: Eve Pollard; editors: alpha list. Art direction: Ivan Bulloch
'A magazine for grown-up women' with Susan Saradon on the cover. 
History 
May. BBC. £2.95 
With CD/CD-Rom
Internet Business
May. Haymarket. £2.95
PS
March/April. Dennis. £2, 204 pages. Editor: Rachel Shattock
'The world's first home shopping magazine'. Everything  featured in articles could be bought by phone or over the web. Site needed Macromedia Flash v4.0 plug-in. Closed in 2001. www.psmagazine.co.uk
Nova magazine Nova
March. IPC Media. £1.50, 210 pages. Editor: Deborah Bee
Relaunch of innovative 1960s/1970s title. Deborah Bee, ex Scene,launched title, but ousted a few months later for Sunday Times style editor Jeremy Langmead. Soon closed, however
Talk magazine Talk (US)
March. Miramax/Hearst.£2.50; 256 pages. Editor: Tina Brown
Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover. Closed in 2002
Line
Spring. Time Life Ent. Group Ltd. £3. Editor: Tyler Brulee 
Sports fashion magazine. Two covers: male and female models. Brulee had launched Wallpaper, which was bought by Time and expanded worldwide. Line failed to build on that success and was closed. Cover used spot varnish
PSW Playstation World
February. Computec Media. £2.99.Editors: Richard Leadbetter and David Upchurch
Hefty 260-page first issue
'With thanks to Evo magazine'
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