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Henry Luce

Magazine Publisher

Citation Formats

General Reference

Film and Media Atlas. "Henry Luce." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/henry-luce.

APA Style

Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Henry Luce. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/henry-luce

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-henry-luce,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Henry Luce},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/henry-luce},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

An American publisher who, with Briton Hadden, launched Time in 1923 as the first weekly news magazine in the United States, then founded Fortune (1930), Life (1936) and, later in his life, Sports Illustrated (1954). Luce closely supervised a stable of magazines that reshaped American journalism and reading habits, and by combining a magazine empire with radio and newsreel ventures built what has been called the first multimedia corporation.

Facts

Birth Year

1898 1

Death Year

1967 1

Nationality

American 1

Defining Contribution

Co-founded Time (1923), the first weekly U.S. newsmagazine, then founded Fortune (1930) and Life (1936), reshaping American magazine publishing and photojournalism. 1

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