Computer Weekly
digital magazine and website for IT professionals in the United Kingdom
Computer Weekly is a digital magazine and website for IT professionals in the United Kingdom owned by Informa TechTarget. It was formerly published as a weekly print magazine by Reed Business Information for over 50 years. Topics covered within the magazine include outsourcing, security, data centres, information management, cloud computing, and mobile computing to computer hacking and strategy for IT management.
History
Computer Weekly Issue 1 was published on 22 September 1966, billed as the first ever weekly technology publication. The editor for the first ten years was Chris Hipwell. John Lamb was editor in the 1980s and 1990s. Tony Collins was executive editor from 1989 to 2010.
The newspaper was available free to IT professionals who met the circulation requirements. A small minority of issues were sold in retail outlets, with the bulk of revenue received from display and recruitment advertising. During the 1990s there were often as many as 100 pages of advertisements per issue.
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