58-508: Redbook is an American women's magazine that is published by the Hearst magazine division . It is one of the " Seven Sisters ", a group of women's service magazines. It ceased print publication after January 2019 and now operates exclusively online. The magazine was first published in May 1903 as The Red Book Illustrated by Stumer, Rosenthal and Eckstein, a firm of Chicago retail merchants. The name
116-515: A digital marketing services business. The acquisition brought Hearst Newspapers to publishing 19 daily and 61 weekly papers. Other 2017 acquisitions include the New Haven Register and associated papers from Digital First Media , and the Alton, Illinois , Telegraph and Jacksonville, Illinois , Journal-Courier from Civitas Media . In October 2017, Hearst announced it would acquire
174-577: A "Beauty Clinic" in 1932, departments were added to the Institute, including a "Baby's Center", "Foods and Cookery", and a "Needlework Room". Some functioned as testing laboratories, while others were designed to produce editorial copy. In 1924, the British Good Housekeeping magazine set up its own Good Housekeeping Institute at 49 Wellington Street in Covent Garden, London. Its first director
232-731: A 1937 liquidation, also had to merge some of his morning papers into his afternoon papers. In Chicago, he combined the morning Herald-Examiner and the afternoon American into the Herald-American in 1939. This followed the 1937 combination of the New York Evening Journal and the morning American into the New York Journal-American , the sale of the Omaha Daily Bee to the World-Herald . Afternoon papers were
290-616: A common board of thirteen trustees (its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns (and selects the 26-member board of) the Hearst Corporation (parent of Hearst Communications which shares the same officers). The foundations shared ownership until tax law changed to prevent this. In 2009, it
348-615: A female audience, Wyman died, and in 1958 Nichols left to edit Good Housekeeping . The new editor was Robert Stein, who continued the focus on women and featured authors such as Dr. Benjamin Spock and Margaret Mead . In 1965 he was replaced by Sey Chassler, during whose 17-year tenure circulation increased to nearly five million and the magazine earned a number of awards, including two National Magazine Awards for fiction. His New York Times obituary says, "A strong advocate for women's rights, Mr. Chassler started an unusual effort in 1976 that led to
406-634: A majority stake in Litton Entertainment . Its CEO, Dave Morgan, was a former employee of Hearst. On January 23, 2017, Hearst announced that it had acquired the business operations of The Pioneer Group from fourth-generation family owners Jack and John Batdorff. The Pioneer Group was a Michigan-based communications network that circulates print and digital news to local communities across the state. In addition to daily newspapers, The Pioneer and Manistee News Advocate , Pioneer published three weekly papers and four local shopper publications, and operated
464-631: A monthly tabloid attacking federal oversight. In 1939, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Good Housekeeping for "misleading and deceptive" guarantees including the Seal, and "exaggerated and false" claims in its advertisements. The publisher fought the proceedings for two years, during which time competing editors from the Ladies Home Journal and McCall's testified against Good Housekeeping . The FTC's ultimate ruling
522-681: A newspaper owner most well known for use of yellow journalism . The Hearst family remains involved in its ownership and management. In 1880, George Hearst , mining entrepreneur and U.S. senator, bought the San Francisco Daily Examiner . In 1887, he turned the Examiner over to his son, William Randolph Hearst , who that year founded the Hearst Corporation. The younger Hearst eventually built readership for Hearst-owned newspapers and magazines from 15,000 to over 20 million. Hearst began to purchase and launched other newspapers, including
580-491: A profitable business in pre-television days, often outselling their morning counterparts featuring stock market information in early editions, while later editions were heavy on sporting news with results of baseball games and horse races. Afternoon papers also benefited from continuous reports from the battlefront during World War II . After the war, however, both television news and suburbs experienced explosive growth; thus, evening papers were more affected than those published in
638-696: A puzzle games website. In April 2024, Hearst acquired the Texas magazines Austin Monthly and Austin Home from Open Sky Media. A new organization called was created Hearst Texas Austin Media to manage the titles along with the Austin Daily newsletter which was created early that year. A non-exhaustive list of its current properties and investments includes: (alphabetical by state, then title) Under William Randolph Hearst's will,
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#1732845173548696-584: A series of Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs . During this period the cover price was raised to 25 cents. In 1927, Edwin Balmer , a short-story writer who had written for the magazine, took over as editor; in the summer of 1929 the magazine was bought by McCall Corporation , which changed the name to Redbook but kept Balmer on as editor. He published stories by such writers as Booth Tarkington and F. Scott Fitzgerald , nonfiction by women such as Shirley Temple 's mother and Eleanor Roosevelt , articles on
754-474: A staff of scientific experts. The GH Institute is known, in part, for the "Good Housekeeping Seal", a limited warranty program that evaluates products to ensure they perform as intended. Good Housekeeping was founded in 1885 by American publisher and poet Clark W. Bryan . By the time of its acquisition by the Hearst Corporation in 1911, the magazine had grown to a circulation of 300,000 subscribers. By
812-708: Is worth at least $ 13 billion. On July 31, 1996, Hearst and the Cisneros Group of Companies of Venezuela announced its plans to launch Locomotion , a Latin American animation cable television channel. On March 27, 1997, Hearst Broadcasting announced that it would merge with Argyle Television Holdings II for $ 525 million, the merger was completed in August to form Hearst-Argyle Television (later renamed as Hearst Television in 2009). In 1999, Hearst sold its Avon and Morrow book publishing activities to HarperCollins . In 2000,
870-570: The Journal Inquirer and later in October 2023 bought San Antonio Magazine. The company paid $ 150,000 in cash plus an amount equal to 90% of the magazine's accounts receivable In November 2023, Hearst acquired all print and digital operations owned by RJ Media Group, including the Record-Journal , seven weekly newspapers and a digital advertising agency. In December 2023, Hearst bought Puzzmo,
928-671: The Los Angeles Examiner , and The Milwaukee Sentinel , supported the company's money-losing afternoon publications such as the Los Angeles Herald-Express , the New York Journal-American , and the Chicago American . The company sold the latter paper in 1956 to the Chicago Tribune ' s o wners, who changed it to the tabloid-size Chicago Today in 1969 and ceased publication in 1974. In 1960, Hearst also sold
986-667: The New York Herald Tribune and Scripps-Howard 's World-Telegram and Sun to form the New York World Journal Tribune (recalling the names of the city's mid-market dailies), which collapsed after only a few months. The 1962 merger of the Herald-Express and Examiner in Los Angeles led to the termination of many journalists who began to stage a 10-year strike in 1967. The effects of the strike accelerated
1044-459: The New York Journal in 1895 and the Los Angeles Examiner in 1903. In 1903, Hearst created Motor magazine, the first title in his company's magazine division. He acquired Cosmopolitan in 1905, and Good Housekeeping in 1911. The company entered the book publishing business in 1913 with the formation of Hearst's International Library. Hearst began producing film features in
1102-680: The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Detroit Times to The Detroit News . After a lengthy strike it sold the Milwaukee Sentinel to the afternoon Milwaukee Journal in 1962. The same year Hearst's Los Angeles papers – the morning Examiner and the afternoon Herald-Express – merged to become the evening Los Angeles Herald-Examiner . The 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike left
1160-595: The San Francisco Chronicle , the Houston Chronicle , Cosmopolitan and Esquire . It owns 50% of the A&;E Networks cable network group and 20% of the sports cable network group ESPN , both in partnership with The Walt Disney Company . The conglomerate also owns several business-information companies, including Fitch Group and First Databank . The company was founded by William Randolph Hearst ,
1218-892: The Washington Times-Herald . That year he also bought the Milwaukee Sentinel from Paul Block (who bought it from the Pfisters in 1929), absorbing his afternoon Wisconsin News into the morning publication. Also in 1939, he sold the Atlanta Georgian to Cox Newspapers, which merged it with the Atlanta Journal . Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the Nazis received positive press coverage by Hearst presses and paid ten times
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#17328451735481276-588: The Charter Company in 1975. In 1982, Charter sold the magazine to the Hearst Corporation , and in April 1983 Smith was fired and replaced by Annette Capone, who "de-emphasized the traditional fiction, featured more celebrity covers, and gave a lot of coverage to exercise, fitness, and nutrition. The main focus was on the young woman who was balancing family, home, and career." (Endres and Lueck, p. 305) After Ellen Levine took over as editor in 1991, even less fiction
1334-641: The Herald-Examiner ). In 1919, Hearst's book publishing division was renamed Cosmopolitan Book. In the 1920s and 1930s, Hearst owned the biggest media conglomerate in the world, which included a number of magazines and newspapers in major cities. Hearst also began acquiring radio stations to complement his papers. Hearst saw financial challenges in the early 1920s, when he was using company funds to build Hearst Castle in San Simeon and support movie production at Cosmopolitan Productions . This eventually led to
1392-611: The Lagardère Group for more than $ 700 million and became a challenger of Time Inc ahead of Condé Nast . In December 2012, Hearst Corporation partnered again with NBCUniversal to launch Esquire Network . On February 20, 2014, Hearst Magazines International appointed Gary Ellis to the new position, Chief Digital Officer. That December, DreamWorks Animation sold a 25% stake in AwesomenessTV for $ 81.25 million to Hearst. In January 2017, Hearst announced that it had acquired
1450-550: The San Antonio Light after it purchased the rival San Antonio Express-News from Murdoch. On November 8, 1990, Hearst Corporation acquired 20% stake of ESPN, Inc. from RJR Nabisco for a price estimated between $ 165 million and $ 175 million. The other 80% has been owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1996. Over the last 25 years, the ESPN investment is said to have accounted for at least 50% of total Hearst Corp profits and
1508-568: The Wall Street Crash of 1929 by men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and Eddie Cantor , as well as condensed novels, like Dashiell Hammett 's The Thin Man (December 1933). Under Balmer, Redbook became a general-interest magazine for both men and women. On May 26, 1932, the publisher launched its own radio series, Redbook Magazine Radio Dramas , syndicated dramatizations of stories from the magazine. Stories were selected by Balmer, who also served as
1566-561: The Chandlers' Los Angeles Times , also competitor to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner , which folded in 1989. In 1990, both King Features Entertainment and King Phoenix Entertainment were rebranded under the collective Hearst Entertainment umbrella. King Features Entertainment was renamed to Hearst Entertainment Distribution, while King Phoenix Entertainment was renamed to Hearst Entertainment Productions. In 1993, Hearst closed
1624-718: The Good Housekeeping Institute, was founded. In 1902, the magazine was calling this "An Inflexible Contract Between the Publisher and Each Subscriber". The formal opening of the headquarters of the GH Institute – the "Model Kitchen", "Testing Station for Household Devices", and "Domestic Science Laboratory" – occurred in January 1910. In 1909, the magazine established the Good Housekeeping Seal. Products advertised in
1682-887: The Hearst Corp. pulled another "switcheroo" by selling its flagship and "Monarch of the Dailies", the afternoon San Francisco Examiner , and acquiring the long-time competing, but now larger morning paper, San Francisco Chronicle from the Charles de Young family. The San Francisco Examiner is now published as a daily freesheet. In December 2003, Marvel Entertainment acquired Cover Concepts from Hearst, to extend Marvel's demographic reach among public school children. In 2009, A&E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services , with Hearst ownership increasing to 42%. In 2010, Hearst acquired digital marketing agency iCrossing. In 2011, Hearst absorbed more than 100 magazine titles from
1740-626: The Hearst Corporation began pursuing joint operating agreements (JOAs). It reached the first agreement with the DeYoung family, proprietors of the afternoon San Francisco Chronicle , which began to produce a joint Sunday edition with the Examiner . In turn, the Examiner became an evening publication, absorbing the News-Call-Bulletin . The following year, the Journal-American reached another JOA with another two landmark New York City papers:
1798-498: The advertisers. In its varying forms, the Seal became inextricably associated with the magazine, and many others (e.g., McCall's , Parents Magazine , and Better Homes and Gardens ) mimicked the practice. Good Housekeeping began to be published in the United Kingdom in 1922. William Randolph Hearst appointed Alice Maud Head initially as assistant editor. Head rose to be the managing director, as well as purportedly being
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1856-710: The city with no papers for over three months, with the Journal-American one of the earliest strike targets of the Typographical Union. The Boston Record and the Evening American merged in 1961 as the Record-American and in 1964, the Baltimore News-Post became the Baltimore News-American . In 1953, Hearst Magazines bought Sports Afield magazine, which it published until 1999 when it sold
1914-478: The early 1960s, it had over five million subscribers and was one of the world's most popular lifestyle magazines. On May 2, 1885, Clark W. Bryan founded Good Housekeeping in Holyoke, Massachusetts , as a fortnightly magazine. The magazine became a monthly publication in 1891. The magazine achieved a circulation of 300,000 by 1911, at which time it was bought by the Hearst Corporation . It topped one million in
1972-705: The highest paid woman in Europe. As Hearst's deputy, Head would make decisions on his behalf about not just editing, but also buying for him St Donat's Castle , expensive art objects, and three giraffes for his zoo. Head remained head until 1939. In Latin America , a Spanish version of the magazine, titled Buenhogar , was published in the United States and Latin America by the Televisa corporation in Mexico from 1965, under license from
2030-491: The journal to Robert E. Petersen . In 1958, Hearst's International News Service merged with E.W. Scripps' United Press , forming United Press International as a response to the growth of the Associated Press and Reuters . The following year Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News merged with Hearst's afternoon San Francisco Call-Bulletin . Also in 1959, Hearst acquired the paperback book publisher Avon Books . In 1965,
2088-597: The magazine and book businesses of Rodale in Emmaus, Pennsylvania with some sources reporting the purchase price as about $ 225 million. The transaction was expected to close in January following government approvals. In 2018, Hearst acquired the global health and wellness magazine brands owned by Rodale, Inc. In April 2023, Hearst bought WBBH-TV , an NBC-affiliated television station in Fort Myers, Florida, from Waterman Broadcasting Corporation. In June 2023, Hearst acquired
2146-465: The magazine around. By 1950 circulation reached two million, and the following year the cover price was raised to 35 cents. It published articles on racial prejudice, the dangers of nuclear weapons, and the damage caused by McCarthyism , among other topics. In 1954, Redbook received the Benjamin Franklin Award for public service. The next year, as the magazine was beginning to steer towards
2204-537: The magazine had become a success, climbing to a circulation of 300,000. When White left to edit Appleton's Magazine , he was replaced by Karl Edwin Harriman, who edited The Red Book Magazine and its sister publications The Blue Book and The Green Book until 1912. Under Harriman the magazine was promoted as "the largest illustrated fiction magazine in the world" and increased its price from 10 cents to 15 cents. According to Endres and Lueck (p. 299), " Red Book
2262-564: The magazine include A. J. Cronin , Betty Friedan , Frances Parkinson Keyes , Clara Savage Littledale , Edwin Markham , Somerset Maugham , Edna St. Vincent Millay , J. D. Salinger , Evelyn Waugh , and Virginia Woolf . Other contributors include advice columnists , chefs , and politicians . In 1900, the "Experiment Station", the predecessor to the Good Housekeeping Research Institute (GHRI), now known as
2320-462: The magazine that bear the GH Seal are tested by GH Institute experts and are backed by a two-year limited warranty. About 5,000 products have been given the seal. In April 1912, a year after Hearst bought the magazine, Harvey W. Wiley , the first commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1907–1912), became head of the Good Housekeeping Research Institute and a contributing editor whose "Question Box" feature ran for decades. Beginning with
2378-477: The merger of the magazine Hearst International with Cosmopolitan in 1925. Despite some financial troubles, Hearst began extending its reach in 1921, purchasing the Detroit Times , The Boston Record , and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Hearst then added the Los Angeles Herald and Washington Herald , as well as the Oakland Post-Enquirer , the Syracuse Telegram and the Rochester Journal-American in 1922. He continued his buying spree into
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2436-435: The mid-1910s, creating one of the earliest animation studios : the International Film Service , turning characters from Hearst newspaper strips into film characters. Hearst bought the Atlanta Georgian in 1912, the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Post in 1913, the Boston Advertiser and the Washington Times (unrelated to the present-day paper) in 1917, and the Chicago Herald in 1918 (resulting in
2494-408: The mid-1920s, and continued to rise, even during the Great Depression and its aftermath. In 1938, a year in which the magazine advertising dropped 22 percent, Good Housekeeping showed an operating profit of $ 2,583,202, more than three times the profit of Hearst's other eight magazines combined, and probably the most profitable monthly of its time. Circulation topped 2,500,000 in 1943, 3,500,000 in
2552-437: The mid-1920s, purchasing the Baltimore News (1923), the San Antonio Light (1924), the Albany Times Union (1924), and The Milwaukee Sentinel (1924). In 1924, Hearst entered the tabloid market in New York City with New York Daily Mirror , meant to compete with the New York Daily News . In addition to print and radio, Hearst established Cosmopolitan Pictures in the early 1920s, distributing his films under
2610-422: The mid-1950s, 5,000,000 in 1962, and 5,500,000 per month in 1966. 1959 profits were more than $ 11 million. Good Housekeeping was one of the " Seven Sisters ", a group of women's service magazines, and is one of the three of them still published in print. In 1922, the Hearst Corporation created a British edition along the same lines, named British Good Housekeeping . Famous writers who have contributed to
2668-408: The morning, whose circulation remained stable while their afternoon counterparts' sales plummeted. In 1947, Hearst produced an early television newscast for the DuMont Television Network : I.N.S. Telenews , and in 1948 he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore . The earnings of Hearst's three morning papers, the San Francisco Examiner ,
2726-449: The newly created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . In 1929, Hearst and MGM created the Hearst Metrotone newsreels. The Great Depression hurt Hearst and his publications. Cosmopolitan Book was sold to Farrar & Rinehart in 1931. After two years of leasing them to Eleanor "Cissy" Patterson (of the McCormick-Patterson family that owned the Chicago Tribune ), Hearst sold her The Washington Times and Herald in 1939; she merged them to form
2784-443: The pace of the company's demise, with the Herald Examiner ceasing publication November 2, 1989. Hearst moved into hardcover publishing by acquiring Arbor House in 1978 and William Morrow and Company in 1981. In 1982, the company sold the Boston Herald American — the result of the 1972 merger of Hearst's Record-American & Advertiser with the Herald-Traveler — to Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation , which renamed
2842-422: The paper as The Boston Herald , competing to this day with The Boston Globe . In 1986, Hearst bought the Houston Chronicle and that same year closed the 213-year-old Baltimore News-American after a failed attempt to reach a JOA with A.S. Abell Company , the family who published The Baltimore Sun since its founding in 1837. Abell sold the paper several days later to the Times-Mirror syndicate of
2900-485: The program's host. Circulation hit a million in 1937, and success continued until the late 1940s, when the rise of television began to drain readers and the magazine lost touch with its demographic. In 1948 it lost $ 400,000 (equivalent to $ 5.07 million today), and the next year Balmer was replaced by Wade Hampton Nichols, who had edited various movie magazines. Phillips Wyman took over as publisher. Nichols decided to concentrate on "young adults" between 18 and 34 and turned
2958-422: The simultaneous publication of articles about the proposed equal rights amendment in 36 women's magazines. He did it again three years later with 33 magazines." He retired in 1981 and was replaced by Anne Mollegen Smith , the first woman editor, who had been with the magazine since 1967, serving as fiction editor and managing editor. Norton Simon Inc., which had purchased the McCall Corporation , sold Redbook to
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#17328451735483016-496: The standard subscription rate for the INS wire service belonging to Hearst. William Randolph Hearst personally instructed his reporters in Germany to only give positive coverage to Hitler and the Nazis, and fired journalists who refused to write stories favourable of German fascism. During this time, high ranking Nazis were given space to write articles in Hearst press newspapers, including Hermann Göring and Alfred Rosenberg . Hearst, with his chain now owned by his creditors after
3074-419: Was Dorothy Cottington Taylor who ran the "a highly organised laboratory for testing and investigating every kind of household appliance, method, and recipe" for sixteen years. After the passage of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell sought to promote a government grading system. The Hearst Corporation opposed the policy in spirit, and began publishing
3132-402: Was against the magazine, forcing it to remove some claims and phraseology from its ad pages. The words "Tested and Approved" were dropped from the Seal. But the magazine's popularity was unaffected, steadily rising in circulation and profitability. In 1962, the wording of the Seal was changed to a guarantee of "Product or Performance", while dropping its endorsement of rhetorical promises made by
3190-424: Was changed to The Red Book Magazine shortly thereafter. Its first editor, from 1903 to 1906, was Trumbull White, who wrote that the name was appropriate because, "Red is the color of cheerfulness, of brightness, of gaiety." In its early years, the magazine published short fiction by well-known authors, including many women writers, along with photographs of popular actresses and other women of note. Within two years
3248-547: Was estimated to be the largest private company managed by trustees in this way. As of 2017, the trustees are: The trust dissolves when all family members alive at the time of Hearst's death in August 1951 have died. Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping is an American lifestyle media brand that covers a wide range of topics from home decor and renovation, health, beauty and food, to entertainment, pets and gifts. The Good Housekeeping Institute which opened its "Experiment Station" in 1900, specializes in product reviews by
3306-1689: Was published, and the focus was on the young mother. Levine said, "We couldn't be the magazine we wanted to be with such a big audience, you have to lose your older readers. We did it the minute I walked in the door. It was part of the deal." Levine moved to Good Housekeeping in 1994, being replaced by McCall's Kate White, who left for Cosmopolitan four years later. Succeeding editors were Lesley Jane Seymour (1998-2001), Ellen Kunes (2001-2004), and Stacy Morrison (2004-2010). Redbook Magazine has ceased print publication as of its November/December 2018 issue [Vol. 231, No.4]. Redbook's Customer Service page notes itself that Redbook magazine "is no longer being published". A column by Kelly Faircloth at Jezebel reports secondhand though an AdWeek October 10, 2018, article "that after January 2019, Redbook will become an 'online-only destination'." Redbook' s articles are primarily targeted towards married women. The magazine features stories about women dealing with modern hardships, aspiring for intellectual growth, and encouraging other women to work together for humanitarian causes. The magazine profiles successful women to provide inspirational testimonies and advice on life. Hearst Communications Hearst Corporation , its wholly owned subsidiary Hearst Holdings Inc. , and HHI's wholly owned subsidiary Hearst Communications Inc. (usually referred to simply as Hearst ) constitute an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, television channels , and television stations, including
3364-533: Was trying to convey the message that it offered something for everyone, and, indeed, it did... There was short fiction by talented writers such as James Oliver Curwood , Jack London , Sinclair Lewis , Edith Wharton and Hamlin Garland . Stories were about love, crime, mystery, politics, animals, adventure and history (especially the Old West and the Civil War )." Harriman was succeeded by Ray Long. When Long went on to edit Hearst's Cosmopolitan in January 1918, Harriman returned as editor, bringing such coups as
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