The Guardian Weekly editor Will Dean on the transformation of our century-old international weekly newspaper into a weekly news magazine
The Guardian Weekly is nearly 100 years old. Ninety-nine in fact. It was introduced during the tenure of CP Scott as a way of sharing the best of the Guardian’s reporting around the world.
Each week since 1919 my predecessors and I – such as John Perkin, Patrick Ensor, Natalie Bennett and Abby Deveney – have been tasked with the rather pleasant job of reading every story produced by the Guardian, and later Observer, during a seven-day period and editing it into one newspaper that gave readers an overview of the week’s news and, as its original mission statement set out, “the best and most interesting” of our journalism.
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