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| Editor-in-Chief | Robin Blinder |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Greg Mitchell (2002–2009) |
| Categories | Trade magazines |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Mike Blinder |
| First issue | 1901; 124 years ago (1901) |
| Company | Curated Experiences Group |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Hendersonville, Tennessee |
| Language | English |
| Website | editorandpublisher |
| ISSN | 0013-094X (print) 0013-094X (web) |
| OCLC | 123532423 |
Editor & Publisher (E&P) is an American monthly tradenews magazine covering thenews media industry. Published since 1901,Editor & Publisher is the self-described "bible of the newspaper industry,"[1][2] with offices inHendersonville, TN.[3]
Editor & Publisher (E&P) covers all aspects of the news media industry.[4] The magazine's original tagline was "The newsmagazine of the fourth estate." As of 2022, E&P's tagline is "The Authoritative Voice of #NewsMedia Since 1884".[3]
Today E&P still publishes a monthly print magazine that is mailed to over 5,000 news publishing executives and distributed at yearly news media events.
E&P presents the annualEPpy Awards for excellence in digital publishing.[3]

Editor & Publisher evolved from several publications, the oldest of which — the weeklyThe Journalist, the first successful American trade newspaper covering journalism[5] — had been founded in 1884.[6]The Editor & Publisher: A Journal for Newspaper Makers[7] itself was founded in 1901, and in 1907 it merged withThe Journalist.[8][2]E&P later acquired the trade journalNewspaperdom (established 1892), and in 1927 it merged with the trade paperThe Fourth Estate.[4]
E&P published the long-awaitedKing–Crane Commission Report (officially called the 1919 Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey) in its December 2, 1922 edition.[9]
From 1990 to 2010,Editor and Publisher produced the Interactive Newspapers Conference (which changed its name to the Interactive Media Conference & Trade Show in the year 2000).MediaWeek joined as a co-sponsor in 2003.[10] The annual conference was held in various locations around the United States, frequently in New Orleans and Las Vegas. Since 1996,E&P has presented theEPPY Awards, an award for media-affiliatedwebsites. The EPPYS were presented at the Interactive Media Conference until 2011 when they went fully online.[11]
For many years the company published theEditor & Publisher International Yearbook. It still publishes the annualEditor & Publisher DataBook and this data is also available on the website.[12]
Editor & Publisher was acquired in 1999 by theNielsen Company.[13][14] Nielsen shut downE&P at the end of 2010,[6][15][16] but the magazine was revived when theDuncan McIntosh Company purchased it from Nielsen.[4]
In September 2019Editor & Publisher was purchased by[17] Curated Experiences Group owned by Mike Blinder, experienced media consultant.[2][14]
In October 2020,Editor & Publisher partnered withPoynter Institute and America's Newspapers to launch the Media Job Board, a journalism and media job listings website.[18]
In January 2021, the magazine donated their digitized "back issues" toInternet Archive where now hundreds of issues of E&P published since 1901 are available for free.[19]