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The ''Weekly World News'' was a largely fictional news tabloid published in the United States from 1979 to 2007, renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news that verged on the satirical. Its characteristic black-and-white covers have become pop-culture images widely used in the arts. It ceased publication in August 2007. In 2009, ''Weekly World News'' was relaunched as an online only publication. Its current editor-in-chief is Neil McGinness. == History == The ''WWN'' was launched in 1979〔Lori Becker, ("Weekly World News tabloid to close up shop" ), ''Palm Beach Post'', July 24, 2007〕 by publisher Generoso Pope, Jr. as a means to continue using the black-and-white press that the higher-profile tabloid ''The National Enquirer'' had been printed on when the sister publication switched to color printing.〔 Like many supermarket weeklies in the U.S., the ''Weekly World News'' was published in Lantana, Florida, until it moved to Boca Raton in the late 1990s. It was unique as a tabloid because it was printed entirely in black and white. Its longtime editor, Eddie Clontz, a 10th-grade dropout from North Carolina and former copy editor at small newspapers,〔 joined the paper in 1981. In the 1980s, the circulation of ''WWN'' peaked at 1.2 million per issue. In 1999, the Weekly World News was declared the "Official Newspaper of the Windows 2000 Team" at Microsoft, and its Senior Vice President, Brian Valentine, would read excerpts from it at what was called Windows Information Meetings, or WIMs, while attempting to entertain and encourage the developers, testers, program managers, and writers involved. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weekly World News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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