Best (women's magazine)
{{Short description|UK women's magazine}}
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| editor = Siobhan Wykes
| editor_title = Editor-in-chief
| frequency = Weekly
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| category = Women's magazine
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| publisher = Hearst Magazines
| founded = 1987
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| country = United Kingdom
| based = London
| language = English
| website = {{Official website|http://www.hearst.co.uk/brands/best}}
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Best is a UK women's magazine printed weekly by Hearst Magazines UK.{{cite web|title=Brands|url=https://www.hearst.co.uk/brands/best|work=Hearst|access-date=18 April 2020}} The magazine is headquartered in London.
History and profile
Best was established in 1987.{{cite book|title=Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2018|isbn=978-1-4729-4748-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8P5DDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT77
|editor=Joanna Harris|page=77|location=London}} The magazine was the British edition of French women's magazine Femme Actuelle, The target audience of the magazine is working-class women age between 44 and 60.{{cite news|title=Redesign for best magazine and website|access-date=18 April 2020
|work=responsesource|date=24 April 2013|url=https://www.responsesource.com/bulletin/news/redesign-for-best-magazine-and-website/}} Nat Mags acquired Best from Gruner + Jahr in 2000.{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Anthony |title=Gruner & Jahr UK (part of Hearst/National Magazines) |url=http://www.magforum.com/magazinepublishers4.htm#GnJ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Magforum |language=en-GB |quote="German publisher burst on to the UK scene with Best to upset the weekly women's market dominated by IPC. It was bought up by National Magazines, which won takeover battle with IPC in July 2000 – a move seen as taking NatMags downmarket into weeklies. Gruner and Jahr is sometimes branded as either G&J or G+J."}}{{Cite web |title=BEST {{!}} Hearst |url=https://www.hearst.co.uk/brands/best |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Hearst UK |language=en}}
On 8 August 2016 Siobhan Wykes became the executive editor of the magazine, replacing Jenny Vereker in the post.{{cite news|author=Amy Wilson|title=Promotion for Siobhan Wykes at best|work=responsesource|date=28 July 2016
|url=https://www.responsesource.com/bulletin/news/promotion-siobhan-wykes-best/|access-date=18 April 2020}} Jackie Hatton was among the former editors.{{cite news|author=Andy Lines|title='Brilliant and inspiring' former editor of Best and Woman Jackie Hatton has died aged 53|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/brilliant-and-inspiring-former-editor-of-best-and-woman-jackie-hatton-has-died-aged-53/|access-date=18 April 2020|work=PressGazette|date=17 January 2018}} She was named the editor of Best in January 2010, replacing Jane Ennis in the post. From 2005 to 2009 the editor was Michelle Hather.{{cite news|author=Charlotte Linter |title=Best magazine appoints Jane Ennis as editor|url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/media-appointments/best-magazine-appoints-jane-ennis-as-editor/s8/a534018/|access-date=18 April 2020|work=Journalism|date=8 April 2009}}
Best sold 296,971 copies in the first half of 2009.{{cite news|author=Stephen Brook |title=Jackie Hatton to edit Best magazine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/dec/04/jackie-hatton-to-edit-best|access-date=18 April 2020|work=The Guardian|date=4 December 2009}} During the first half of 2010, the magazine had a circulation of 302,309 copies.{{cite news|author=Dominic Ponsford|title=Mag ABCs: Stormy period for women's weeklies|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mag-abcs-stormy-period-for-womens-weeklies/|access-date=18 April 2020|work=PressGazette|date=12 August 2010}}
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