Dig (magazine)
children's magazine
Dig was a children's archaeology magazine, published by Cricket Media and associated with the Archaeological Institute of America. The magazine targeted children aged nine to fourteen.
History and profile
Dig was founded in 1999 by the Archaeological Institute of America, with offices in New York's financial district. The AIA had commissioned magazine editor and writer Stephen Hanks, who at the time was working for Scholastic News, to create a prototype for a children's archaeology magazine. With New York-based magazine art director Mooki Saltzman doing the design, Hanks presented an eight-page prototype to the AIA Board of Directors during the summer of 1998. The board approved a January 1999 launch of a 48-page bi-monthly magazine.
Under Hanks' guidance as editorial director, DIG won multiple awards from the Association of Educational Publishers and was acclaimed as one of America's best magazine launches of 1999 by Temple University's "Acres of Diamonds" Award. Hanks was also featured in a full-page profile in the New York Daily News.
Although a critical success, circulation and advertising revenue were not large enough for the AIA to sustain publishing Dig, so the magazine was sold in late 2001 to the Peterborough, New Hampshire company Cobblestone Publishing.
The magazine was published several times per year, and most issues were based on the theme of archaeological finds from various countries.
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