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''Fortune'' is an American business magazine, published globally by Time Inc. and founded by Henry Luce in 1929. The magazine competes with ''Forbes'' and ''Bloomberg Businessweek'' in the national business magazine category and distinguishes itself with long, in-depth feature articles. The magazine is best known for the Fortune 500, a ranking of companies by revenue that it has published annually since 1955. ==History== ''Fortune'' was founded by ''Time'' co-founder Henry Luce in 1929 as "the Ideal Super-Class Magazine", a "distinguished and de luxe" publication "vividly portraying, interpreting and recording the Industrial Civilization".〔Fortune prospectus. By Henry Luce. Fortune, September 1929, Volume One, Number Zero.〕 Briton Hadden, Luce's business partner, was not enthusiastic about the idea – which Luce originally thought to title ''Power'' – but Luce went forward with it after Hadden's sudden death on February 27, 1929.〔Henry Luce & His Time by Joseph Epstein, ''Commentary'', Vol. 44, No. 5, November 1967.〕 In late October 1929, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the onset of the Great Depression. In a memo to the Time Inc. board in November 1929, Luce wrote: "We will not be over-optimistic. We will recognize that this business slump may last as long as an entire year." The publication made its official debut in February 1930. Its editor was Luce; its managing editor was Parker Lloyd-Smith; its art director was Thomas Maitland Cleland.〔"Current Magazines". ''The New York Times''. February 2, 1930.〕 Single copies of the first issue cost $1 ($ today).〔 An urban legend says that Cleland mocked up the cover of the first issue with the $1 price because no one had yet decided how much to charge; the magazine was printed before anyone realized it, and when people saw it for sale, they thought that the magazine must really have worthwhile content. In fact, there were 30,000 subscribers who had already signed up to receive that initial 184-page issue. By 1937, the number of subscribers had grown to 460,000 and the magazine turned half a million dollars in annual profit. At a time when business publications were little more than numbers and statistics printed in black and white, ''Fortune'' was an oversized 11"×14", using creamy heavy paper, and art on a cover printed by a special process.〔(Background ).〕 ''Fortune'' was also noted for its photography, featuring the work of Margaret Bourke-White and others. Walker Evans served as its photography editor from 1945 to 1965. During the Great Depression, the magazine developed a reputation for its social conscience, for Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White's color photographs, and for a team of writers including James Agee, Archibald MacLeish, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Alfred Kazin, hired specifically for their writing abilities. The magazine became an important leg of Luce's media empire; after the successful launch of ''Time'' in 1923 and ''Fortune'' in 1930, Luce went on to launch ''Life'' in 1936 and ''Sports Illustrated'' in 1954. From its launch in 1930 to 1978, ''Fortune'' was published monthly. In January 1978, it began publishing every two weeks. In October 2009, citing declining ad revenue and circulation, ''Fortune'' began publishing every three weeks. Marshall Loeb was named managing editor in 1986. During his tenure at ''Fortune'', Loeb was credited with expanding the traditional focus on business and the economy with added graphs, charts and tables, as well as the addition of articles on topics such as executive life, and social issues connected to the world of business, such as the effectiveness of public schools and on homelessness. During the years when Time Warner owned Time Inc., ''Fortune'' articles (as well as those from ''Money'' magazine) were hosted at CNNMoney.com. In June 2014, after Time Inc. spun off from its corporate parent, ''Fortune'' launched its own website at Fortune.com. 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「Fortune (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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