New York Times Upfront Magazine cover, September 2010 |
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| Editor | Elliott Rebhun |
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| Categories | Newsmagazine |
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Circulation | 325,000 subscriptions per issue |
| First issue | 1999 |
| Company | Scholastic, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | Upfront Homepage |
| ISSN | 15251292 |
The New York Times Upfront is a newsmagazine for high school students, published by Scholastic Inc. with articles and other content provided by reporters from The New York Times.
More than 15,000 Social Studies and English/Language Arts teachers nationwide subscribe to Upfront for their students. The magazine is designed to augment the curricula of a course by bringing current events into a classrooms. The magazine is also intended to boost high school students’ non-fiction reading skills. Published 14 times during the school year, Upfront has a circulation of approximately 325,000, up 25% in the last three years, with a readership of over 900,000 high school students, since teachers generally use the magazine with more than one class, and often share the magazine with other teachers.
Upfront is edited for a high school audience, with articles of interest to teenagers that explain how news events relate to them and their futures. Although Upfrontis targeted at a high school audience some teachers use it for a younger, gifted audience.
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Upfront recently launched a digital edition, and provides a suite of digital learning tools on its website for teachers and students, including a series of video time lines.[1]
The New York Times Upfront was first published in 1999, but traces its roots back to Scholastic's early days. Scholastic Senior was the company's original newsmagazine for high school students. Its name was later changed to Update.
In 1999, Scholastic partnered with The New York Times, and Update became The New York Times Upfront. The idea was to combine the Times journalistic resources and the reporting from its news bureaus around the world with Scholastic’s ability to create magazines that meet the curricular needs of high school students and their teachers. For The New York Times, Upfront is also a way to introduce its brand and its journalism to a new generation of readers, complementing the Times’s web site, and its other education efforts.
The New York Times Upfront celebrated its 10th anniversary in May 2009.
Every issue of Upfront covers both domestic and international news. The topics frequently covered in the magazine are:
In 2008, The New York Times Upfront was recognized for its excellence by the Association of Educational Publishers. It won the following Distinguished Achievement Awards[18]: