Magazine launches & events 2000
Magazines listed by cover date with most recent at top. Also with alphabetic links to magazines on the right. Other magazine launch pagesOne (US)December. One Media Inc. $4.95£4. Editorial director: Marguerite Kramer; editor in chief Stacy Morrison192 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 was a men's magazine aimed at older Loaded readers |
MondoNovember. Cabal. £1.50 special price (£3). Editor: PushStrapline: '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 |
MP3XNovember. IT Publishing UK Ltd. £3.50. Editor: Dean ReillyWith CD. Computer magazines |
 Harpers & Queen Men – one-off edited by Paul Smith |
Harpers & Queen 30th birthdayNovember. Conde Nast. £3.10 With H&Q Men (guest editor Paul Smith)Women's magazines case study |
 First issue cover of Bare |
BareSeptember/October. John Brown, 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 TodayOctober/November.Cats Today Ltd. £2.50 6/year |
i-DOctober. Level Print Ltd. £3.10The Self issue (not a first issue). Spot varnish |
StarOctober18. BBC. £1.60Hello! 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 SnowboardSeptember. £2.95'For snowboarders by mud wrestlers' Extreme sports magazines |
 Eve was a women's magazine launched by the BBC |
EveSeptember. 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. Later sold to Haymarket but closed in late 2008. Women's monthly magazines |
Know Your DestinyAutumn. News Group Newspapers. £2.50Mystic Meg's magazine. Free mystical pendulum |
Business 2.0June. Future Publishing Ltd (part of the Future Network plc). £1 first issueUK 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 but US version was sold on and survives |
Hot DogJuly. IFG (I Feel Good). £1.50 starter 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. Later bought by Highbury but then closed as company failed IFG profile |
 Former Fleet Street editor Eve Pollard was behind Eve magazine |
AuraParkhill. £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. Women's monthly magazines |
HistoryMay. BBC. £2.95. With CD/CD-Rom |
Internet BusinessMay. Haymarket. £2.95Computer magazines |
PSMarch/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 v 4.0 plug-in. Closed in 2001. www.psmagazine.co.uk Women's monthly magazines |
 Nova was a 1960s legend but IPC failed to build on its reputation |
NovaMarch. IPC Media. £1.50, 210 pages. Editor: Deborah BeeRelaunch of innovative 1960s/1970s Nova. Deborah Bee, ex Scene, launched the title, but was ousted a few months later in favour of Sunday Times style editor Jeremy Langmead. Magazine soon closed, however Women's monthly magazines |
 Tina Brown had made her name with Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, but Talk was a magazine too far |
Talk (US)March. Miramax/Hearst.£2.50; 256 pages. Editor: Tina BrownGwyneth Paltrow on the cover. Closed in 2002 |
LineSpring. Time Life Ent. Group Ltd. £3. Editor: Tyler BrûléSports fashion magazine known as Project Tart that was aimed at urban 25- to 45-year-olds. Two covers: male and female models. Cover used spot varnish. Brûlé had launched Wallpaper, which was bought by Time and expanded worldwide. 'In Forte dei Marmi (a chic Tuscan resort) four Wallpaper staff decided that their equipment and attire was not quite cutting it on the clay. A new title was born,' Brûlé told The Observer ('Style guru gets a taste for sport' by John Arlidge, 2 April 2000). The article said Brûlé had not done market research but that `Sport is much more sexy than it was five years ago. It's great to whip someone's [arse] on court but how much better is it to look fantastic doing it?' Line failed to build on Wallpaper's success and was closed. |
PSW Playstation WorldFebruary. Computec Media. £2.99. Editors: Richard Leadbetter and David UpchurchHefty 260-page first issue – 'With thanks to Evo magazine' Computer magazines |