Title
The Weekly Register
Coverage
Baltimore
Publisher
H. Niles
Date
September 7, 1811
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
The first nineteenth-century magazine primarily devoted to news was Hezekiah Niles’s Weekly Register. Its scope and longevity were unique. It began with a subscription list of 1,500 that peaked at 4,000, but enjoyed a considerable secondary readership. It is best remembered, as its motto states, for a quarter century of trusted, balanced, and objective reporting about “the past—the present—for the future,” setting a high standard for future American magazine journalism.