Computerworld
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{{Short description|American information technology magazine}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Computerworld
| image_file = Computerworld-v45i14.jpg
| image_caption = Computerworld cover for Volume 45, Issue 14, August 8, 2011
| image_size = 200px
| image_alt = Cover for Volume 45, Issue 14 (August 8, 2011)
| editor = Ken Mingis{{cite web| url=https://www.computerworld.com/about/about.html|title=About us}}
| editor_title = Executive Editor
| frequency = Monthly (digital)
| total_circulation = 101,598{{cite web |url=http://www.bpaww.com/Bpaww_com/ProductManagement/PDFDisplay.aspx?statement_id=86723&pk=n4gwnyouivdnlumrrtq3c1j2 |title= Computerworld Business Publication Circulation Statement |date= December 2012 |publisher= BPA Worldwide|access-date=February 22, 2013}}
| circulation_year = December 2012
| category = Computer magazine
| publisher = John Amato{{cite web| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=11714948&privcapId=183287753 |title=John Amato: Executive Profile & Biography|website=Bloomberg News }}
| company = IDG
| firstdate = {{Start date and age|1967|06|21}}
(an introductory issue called v. 1, no. 0 issued June 14, 1967)[https://www.loc.gov Loc.gov]{{cite web|
url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2542531/it-management/slide-show--memorable-computerworld-front-pages.html |title=Slide show: Memorable Computerworld Front Pages |date=July 9, 2007 |publisher=Computerworld |access-date=2012-04-29}}
| finaldate = {{End date|2014|06|23}} (print)
| country = United States
| based = Framingham, Mass.
| language = English
| website = {{Official URL}}
| issn = 0010-4841
| founder = Patrick Joseph McGovern
| founded = {{Start date|1967}}
}}
Computerworld (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing{{cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/news/press_release.asp?docTag=201806181000PR_NEWS_USPRX____CL28893&feedID=600&press_symbol=168066
|title=Computerworld Names International Paper to 2018 List of 100 Best Places to Work in IT
|date=August 26, 2018
|access-date=August 26, 2018
|archive-date=December 3, 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203201446/https://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/news/press_release.asp?docTag=201806181000PR_NEWS_USPRX____CL28893&feedID=600&press_symbol=168066
|url-status=dead
}} decades-old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals,{{cite magazine | url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2014/11/26/computerworlds-2015-forecast-predicts-security-cloud-computing-and-analytics-will-lead-it-spending/#441abfb421a0 | title = Computerworld's 2015 forecast predicts security cloud computing and analytics will lead IT spending| magazine = Forbes | access-date = 26 March 2017}} and is available via a publication website and as a digital magazine.
As a printed weekly during the 1970s and into the 1980s, Computerworld was the leading trade publication in the data processing industry. Based on circulation and revenue it was one of the most successful trade publications in any industry.{{cite book | editor-first=Kathleen L. | editor-last=Endres | title=Trade, Industrial, and Professional Periodicals of the United States | publisher=Greenwood Press | date=1994 | page=146}} Later in the 1980s it began to lose its dominant position.{{cite news | magazine=Chief Executive Magazine | date=1990 | issue=55 | page=49}}
It is published in many countries around the world under the same or similar names. Each country's version of Computerworld includes original content and is managed independently.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} The publisher of Computerworld, Foundry (formerly IDG Communications), is a subsidiary of International Data Group.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-17 |title=IDG Communications Transforms into Foundry • Foundry |url=https://foundryco.com/news/after-nearly-60-years-idg-communications-becomes-foundry/ |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=Foundry |language=en-US}}
History
The publication was launched in 1967 by International Data Group in Boston, whose founder was Patrick J. McGovern.{{cite web |title=ComputerWorld – First Issue
|website=ComputerHistory.org (Computer History Museum)
|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102631381
|quote=Description. Black and White reproduction of first issue of Computerworld newsweekly. June 21, 1967 25 cents.}}{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Maryfran |date=2002-09-30 |title=Computerworld's Founder Looks Back on 35 Years |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2577819/computerworld-s-founder-looks-back-on-35-years.html |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=Computerworld |language=en}}
=Going international=
The company IDG offers the brand "Computerworld" in 47 countries worldwide, the name and frequency differ slightly though.[https://www.idg.com/brand/computer_world/ International brands of Computerworld] International Data Group When IDG established the Swedish edition in 1983 i.e., the title "Computerworld" was already registered in Sweden by another publisher. This is why the Swedish edition is named {{ill|Computer Sweden|sv}}. The corresponding German publication is called Computerwoche (which translates to "computer week") instead.
Computer Sweden was distributed as a morning newspaper in tabloid format (41 cm) in 51,000 copies (2007) with an estimated 120,000 readers. From 1999 to 2008, it was published three days a week, but since 2009, it was published only on Tuesdays and Fridays.{{cite web|url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/8260437|title=Computer Sweden |work=LIBRIS|access-date=2012-04-29}}{{cite web|url=http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.205185/sa-gor-vi-om-cs |title=Så gör vi om CS |publisher=Computer Sweden|access-date=2012-04-29}}{{cite web|url=http://ts.se/Mediefakta/Index.aspx?mc=004277|title=Mediefakta: sök mediefakta – ts.se – Computer Sweden|publisher=ts.se|access-date=2012-04-29}}
=Going digital=
In June 2014, Computerworld US abandoned its print edition, becoming an exclusively digital publication.{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249103/Scot_Finnie_The_continuing_evolution_of_Computerworld |title=Scot Finnie: The continuing evolution of Computerworld |date=June 19, 2014 |publisher=computerworld.com |access-date=2014-06-20}} In July 2014, the publisher started the monthly Computerworld Digital Magazine.{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2491471/it-management/get-cw-s-new-monthly-digital-magazine.html |title=Get CW's new monthly digital magazine |publisher=computerworld.com |access-date=2014-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910201618/http://www.computerworld.com/article/2491471/it-management/get-cw-s-new-monthly-digital-magazine.html |archive-date=2014-09-10}} In 2017 it published features and stories highlighting the magazine's history on the fiftieth anniversary.
Computerworld{{'}}s website first appeared in 1996.{{cite web |author=Russel Brown |date=October 22, 2014
|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/digital-media-and-the-internet/page-2
|quote=1996: Computerworld became the first print newspaper to hire dedicated online editorial staff
|title=The early days of the internet, 1990s}}
Ongoing
Computerworld US serves IT and business management with coverage of information technology,{{cite web
|quote=Scammers tricked the New York Times' Digital Advertising department into ... the company confirmed Monday.
|url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2527511/enterprise-applications/new-york-times-tricked-into-serving-scareware-ad.html
|title=New York Times tricked into serving scareware ad |author=Robert McMillan
|date=September 15, 2009}} emerging technologies and analysis of technology trends.{{cite magazine |magazine=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2017/04/30/cloud-computing-skills-pay-the-most-according-to-computerworld/ |date=April 30, 2017
|title=Cloud Computing Skills Pay The Most According To Computerworld}} Computerworld also publishes several notable special reports each year, including the 100 Best Places to Work in IT, IT Salary Survey, the DATA+ Editors' Choice Awards and the annual Forecast research report. Computerworld in the past has published stories that highlight the effects of immigration to the U.S. (e.g. the H-1B visa) on software engineers.{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2897620/it-workers-voices-heard-in-senate-confidentially.html|title=IT workers' voices heard in the Senate, confidentially -- Senate Judiciary Committee debates the H-1B visa and worker displacement|date=March 17, 2015 |publisher=computerworld.com |access-date=2015-05-11}}{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2518662/technology-law-regulation/-elena-s-inbox--details-h-1b-battle-in-clinton-white-house.html|title='Elena's Inbox' details H-1B battle in Clinton White House -- Memos to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan from Clinton administration opens door to battle over H-1B visa in critical year|date=July 2, 2010 |publisher=computerworld.com |access-date=2015-05-11}}
=Staff=
The executive editor of Computerworld in the U.S. is Ken Mingis, who leads a small staff of editors, writers and freelancers who cover a variety of enterprise IT topics (with a concentration on Windows, Mobile and Apple/Enterprise).{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/about/editorial.html#editcontacts |title=Computerworld Editorial Beats/Contacts |publisher=IDG Enterprise |access-date=2014-09-12}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite news |title=At the start: Pat McGovern and the birth of Computerworld |author-first=Lucas |author-last=Mearian |date=2017 |newspaper=Computerworld |publisher=IDG Communications, Inc. |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/3159129/at-the-start-pat-mcgovern-and-the-birth-of-computerworld.html |access-date=2020-01-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200118142349/https://www.computerworld.com/article/3159129/at-the-start-pat-mcgovern-and-the-birth-of-computerworld.html |archive-date=2020-01-18}} [https://www.computerworld.com/article/3159129/at-the-start-pat-mcgovern-and-the-birth-of-computerworld.html?page=2]
External links
- {{cite web|title=Computerworld archive from Google News Archive Search|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=v_xunPV0uK0C&dat=19670614&b_mode=2&hl=en|website=news.google.com}}
- {{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/pub_computerworld|title=Computerworld 1967–2014|work=The Internet Archive|date=December 30, 2020|access-date=January 15, 2021}}
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