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Reader's Digest

MAGAZINE

Founded in 1920 by DeWitt Wallace on a budget of $5,000 while he was recuperating from WWI injuries, the first issue appearing February 1922. After competition arose and it became more difficult to anthologize already-published content, the magazine began accepting original material in 1933. Furthermore, the Digest contracted original material to appear in other sources, which would then be anthologized in its own flagship publication. This distorted the playing field under which articles in the United States were created, since content in the Digest had to adhere to certain ideological standards, be "optimistic" in viewpoint, etc.

28 million subscribers worldwide, 1995 revenues were $3.1B, with $80M profits. It is operated by the Readers Digest Association.

Official Website:
http://www.rd.com/

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Michael Barone
Pundit
1944   Almanac of American Politics
John Barron
Journalist
26-Jan-1930 24-Feb-2005 Soviet espionage expert
Tucker Carlson
Pundit
16-May-1969   Conservative pundit on Fox News
Max Eastman
Author
12-Jan-1883 25-Mar-1969 Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
Eugene Lyons
Author
1-Jul-1898 1985 Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury
Eugene H. Methvin
Journalist
19-Sep-1934   Readers Digest
Robert Novak
Columnist
26-Feb-1931 18-Aug-2009 Conservative ideologue, outed Valerie Plame
Imogen Stubbs
Actor
20-Feb-1961   Twelfth Night
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Journalist
4-Nov-1953   Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Kenneth Tomlinson
Business
3-Aug-1944   Corporation for Public Broadcasting
DeWitt Wallace
Business
12-Nov-1889 30-Mar-1981 Founder of Reader's Digest


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