Private Eye

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Private Eye

description Satirical magazine
language English
publishing company Pressdram Ltd ( United Kingdom )
Headquarters London
First edition October 25, 1961
Frequency of publication biweekly
Sold edition 249,927 copies
(As of June 2017)
Editor-in-chief Ian Hislop
Web link www.private-eye.co.uk
ISSN

Private Eye ( English for private detective ) is a satirical magazine published in London .

Founders were Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Peter Usborne, Christopher Booker and Andrew Osmond after graduating. For the most part, the magazine is enigmatic and requires a certain general education , which does not prevent its nationwide popularity .

Their front pages , which are often provided with speech bubbles , are typical , and nothing is safe from being ridiculed , e.g. B. the mourning for Princess Diana not. Private Eye and The Guardian created the Paul Foot Award , which recognizes investigative journalism . Winners include journalists from newspapers any position of regional newspapers over tabloids up to the Times .

Individual evidence

  1. Private Eye . Audit Bureau of Circulations . Retrieved October 11, 2017.
  2. Adam Macqueen: It was fifty years ago today ... . Private Eye. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  3. Private Eye: The First 50 Years by Adam Macqueen - review . The Guardian. November 9, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  4. Reiner Luyken : A British Institution - The satirical magazine "Private Eye" . In: The time . No. 49 , 1996 ( online [accessed June 20, 2014]).
  5. ^ Private Eye: 50 years of famous front covers . BBC . September 19, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  6. ^ Prestigious award for Mail journalist: Stephen Wright honored for reporting on Stephen Lawrence investigation . Daily Mail . February 28, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  7. ^ Paul Foot awards to the cream of journalism . Evening Standard . February 27, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2014.