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Type of site | lifestyle journalism |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Editor | Gerald Lynch, editor-in-chief |
| CEO | Kevin Li Ying (as of 31 March 2025)[1] |
| Parent | Future plc |
| Current status | Active |
ShortList is a lifestyle website and newsletter based in London that covers news,tech, movies and TV, music, books, and alcohol. It is owned byFuture plc.[2] The site began as a free weekly print magazine that was distributed in various cities in theUnited Kingdom.
ShortList was launched on 20 September 2007 with the slogan "For men with more than one thing on their minds", to differentiate it from the "lads' mags" of the time, such asFHM andLoaded.[3]ShortList was distributed free every Thursday in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Dundee, and Birmingham. In March 2015,ShortList launched a weekly edition inDubai andAbu Dhabi as a license with APP Media Group, a division of ITP Publishing.[4]
Marking the occasion ofShortList's 10th birthday at the end of September 2017, the team produced a special edition magazine with a collection of photos that featured celebrities and their photographs from 10 years ago. Content included brief product reviews, pub and bar reviews (Pints and Pistachios), recipes, fashion pages, interviews, and a weekly column byDanny Wallace. The title had a circulation of 502,773 (ABC July–December 2017) and took up 58.9% of the total men's lifestyle sector across 8 major UK cities[5] with the largest print circulation of all men's magazines in the UK.[6] At launch,ShortList was published byShortlist Media Ltd., which in 2009 launchedStylist, a similar magazine for women. Another publication,Shortlist Dubai, launched in March 2015.[4]
The magazine's print edition was discontinued in 2018 due to declining advertising revenue. Around 20 staff members were estimated to have lost their jobs as a result of its closure.[7] The magazine released its last issue on 20 December 2018.[8]
In October 2022,Future plc acquiredShortList. "The acquisition also seesShortList editor-in-chief, Marc Chacksfield, return to Future, where he was previously editor-in-chief ofTechRadar," the company announced in a press release about the purchase.[2]
Gerald Lynch is the current editor-in-chief ofShortList and Chacksfield is content director.[9]