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| Editor-in-Chief | Lawrence J. Burke |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (June 2012) | 686,623[1] |
| First issue | September 1977 (1977-09) |
| Company | Outside, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Boulder, Colorado |
| Language | English |
| Website | outsideonline |
| ISSN | 0278-1433 |
Outside is a magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue of theOutside magazine was published in September 1977.[2] It is published byOutside Inc., a company that also owns various other ventures.
Outside founders wereJann Wenner (the first editor in chief),William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), andJack Ford (an assistant to founding publisherDonald Welsh and a son of former U.S. PresidentGerald Ford).[3] Wenner soldOutside to Lawrence J. Burke two years later. Burke merged it into his magazineMariah (founded in 1976) and after a period of using the nameMariah/Outside kept theOutside name for the merged magazine.[4]
In 2021, Burke soldOutside to Pocket Outdoor Media.[5] In March 2025, 35 journalists signed a letter requesting their names be removed from the magazine’s masthead in protest over recent layoffs and censorship.[6]
Christopher Keyes was the editor as of 2021[update].[7] John Rasmus, one editor ofOutside, launched the career ofJon Krakauer and other freelance travel and adventure writers. Though the magazine has tilted toward a more commercial aesthetic in recent years, it has also recruited figures from the literary world for freelance assignments. Writers whose work has appeared inOutside includeSebastian Junger,Bruce Barcott,Tim Cahill, Daniel Coyle,E. Annie Proulx, naturalist and authorDavid Quammen, andBob Shacochis. SongwriterDavid Berkeley also worked forOutside.
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