• Publishing is estimated to have accounted for 192,000 jobs in the UK creative economy in 2017, almost 10 per cent of UK creative industries employment.
• 71% of people in Britain over the age of 15, consume magazines either in print form or online, only 21% read them monthly.
• The most popular magazine is The National Trust Magazine, it has a circulation of around 2.3 million.
• Statistics show that gossip magazines are struggling but the number of people buying political based magazines is increasing. For example, The Spectator rose by 11.3% and vogue dropped by 3%.
• The decreases in numbers of people buying magazines is mainly due to social media as people don’t need magazines to find out the latest celebrity news as they can access all this trough social media which allows them to access it is soon as it happens.
• The UK magazine industry is worth £5.7 billion.
• Over 3,200 different magazines are published within the UK.
• Only 7% of UK magazines had an increase of readers in 2018.
• Overall print circulation across the entire market fell by 5% in 2017.
• the number of people 18-34 that read magazines is increasing.

• Entertainment Weekly was lunched on 16^th February 1990.
• It was created by David Morris
• In 1996, the magazine won the National Magazine Award, it won again in 2002.
• In 2016, EW collaborated with People magazine to create PeopleTV.
• Published by the Meredith Corporation.
• Covers film, tv, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.
• In 2003, the average weekly circulation of the magazine was about 1,700,000 copies.
• First mainstream magazine to publish articles about LGBT characters, performers and themes.