Guardian Weekly relaunches as magazine

The Guardian is to relaunch its weekly edition as a glossy news magazine placing it alongside other current affairs titles around the world.

The Guardian Weekly, which currently has a worldwide circulation of 42,000, first launched in 1919 with the aim to present the best and most interesting in the Guardian in a more compact form.

The redesign, which was announced by editor Will Dean earlier this week, will have a slight increase in cover price and a greater focus on design and photography.

For the first time there will be regionalised editions on newsstands in Australia and North America as well as in the UK, in line with the brand’s digital expansion in those regions. They will also continue to publish the global edition for the rest of the world.

“The new-look Guardian Weekly has been beautifully redesigned as a modern weekly news magazine to meet the growing demand for Guardian journalism across the world,” said Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of Guardian News and Media.

“It will continue to offer the best reporting, opinion and features from the Guardian, Observer, theguardian.com and our international editions in the US and Australia – giving our readers more ways to engage with and support Guardian journalism.”

The first editions will be available to purchase from newsstands on October 11, and currently cost £30 per quarter.