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Key facts
- Categories
- News
- Frequency
- Weekly (1936–1972), Monthly (1978–2000)
- Total circulation
- 1,000,000 (1937)
- First issue
- November 23, 1936 ; 89 years ago ( 1936-11-23 )
- Final issue
- May 2000 ( 2000-05 ) (print)
- Company
- Time Inc. (1936–2018) Meredith Corporation (2018–2021) People Inc. (since 2021) Bedford Media (since 2024)
- Country
- United States
- Based in
- New York City, New York, U.S.
- Language
- English
- Website
- www .life .com
- Issn
- 0024-3019
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Encyclopedic overview
Life (stylized as LIFE) is an American news magazine. Life was launched in 1936 as a weekly publication, in 1972 it transitioned to publishing "special" issues before returning as a monthly from 1978 to 2000. Since 2000, the magazine was published as irregular "special" issues.
Life was launched on November 23, 1936, after Henry Luce purchased the 1883 humour magazine Life for its name. Originally published by Time Inc., since 2021 the magazine has been owned by Dotdash Meredith.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Life” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.