Celebrating The Magazine Media Centennial Club… Mr. Magazine™ Identifies 52 Magazine Media Brands That Are Now 100 Years or Older.

How many media brands you know of are celebrating at least one hundred years of existence? Four magazines join the magazine media centennial club this year: Reader’s Digest (started Feb. 1922), The Ring and The Magazine Antiques that were also started in January of 1922, and Harvard Business Review that celebrates its centennial in October of this year.

I have compiled a list of 52 magazine media brands that are at least 100 years old. Some are even 200 years plus. To be included in my list the magazine must still be published in print and is still available for the general public to subscribe to it or to buy it on the newsstands. All the magazines listed are United States of American based and published magazines.

Here is what I call the Magazine Media Centennial Club in alphabetical order:

Magazine Name Year It Was Founded

1. American Cinematographer 1920
2. American Legion 1919
3. Architectural Digest 1920
4. Barron’s 1921
5. Bed Times 1917
6. Billboard 1894
7. Bowlers Journal International 1913
8. Cosmopolitan 1886
9. Farm Journal 1877
10. Forbes 1917
11. Good Housekeeping 1885
12. Harper’s 1850
13. Harper’s Bazaar 1867
14. Harvard Business Review 1922
15. House Beautiful 1896
16. National Defense 1920
17. National Geographic 1888
18. New Jersey League of Municipalities 1917
19. Philadelphia magazine 1908
20. Popular Mechanics 1902
21. Popular Science 1872
22. Progressive Farmer 1866
23. Reader’s Digest 1922
24. San Diego magazine 1886
25. Scholastic 1920
26. Scientific American 1845
27. Signs of the Times 1874
28. Scout Life (Boys Life) 1911
29. Scouting 1913
30. Success 1897
31. Successful Farming 1902
32. Sunset 1898
33. The Atlantic 1857
34. The Crisis 1910
35. The Furrow 1895
36. The Magazine Antiques 1922
37. The Nation 1865
38. The New Republic 1914
39. The New York Times Magazine 1896
40. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 1792
41. The Progressive 1909
42. The Ring 1922
43. The Rotarian 1905
44. The Saturday Evening Post 1821
45. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1893
46. The Watchtower 1879
47. Town & Country 1846
48. Vanity Fair 1913
49. Variety 1905
50. Vogue 1892
51. Westways 1909
52. Writer’s Digest 1920

I welcome any additions, notes, or corrections regarding my attempt to document the Magazine Media Centennial Club. Feel free to email me at samir.husni@gmail.com

Until next time, join me wishing Reader’s Digest, The Ring, The Magazine Antiques, Harvard Business Review a happy 100th birthday and Success magazine a happy 125th birthday. Onward and forward.

Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, Ph.D.

samir.husni@gmail.com