Eve (magazine)
Categories | Women's magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
First issue | 2000 |
Final issue | 2008 |
Company | Haymarket Media Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based in | London |
Language | English |
Eve was an illustrated magazine for women published in
Eve was launched by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, in 2000. It was created under a working title Project Urma, the first edition was dated September 2000 and was sold on newsstands from early August 2000.[2]
As with much BBC activity at the time, the magazine attracted criticism from those who believed that the broadcaster was over-reaching by using its licence-fee funded programming to promote commercial activities, harming other businesses.[3]
Although the magazine was a circulation success, a 2005 restructuring of the BBC led to the decision to sell the title as it didn't directly support a programme. Haymarket Media Group purchased Eve with the intention of building a women's magazine business around the publication.[4]
Haymarket's stewardship of Eve was not a success, and circulation started to decline. In April 2008, there was an overhaul which saw a new masthead and a revamped format, but the global
References
- ^ "Britannia and Eve". British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ John Tylee (16 June 2000). "Campaign". Campaign Live. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ "All about Eve and BBC battle lines". Telegraph. 30 January 2001. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ "BBC sells Eve to Haymarket". Media Week. 11 January 2005. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ Stephen Brook (4 September 2008). "Eve Magazine to close". Media Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ John Reynolds (13 October 2008). "Eve closes after failing to find a buyer". Media Week. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2015.