O: The Oprah Magazine

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Title

O: The Oprah Magazine

Coverage

New York

Publisher

Hearst Communications

Date

May 2000

Subject

Volume 1, number 1

Description

Who might have imagined in 1900 that an African American woman would launch and appear on the cover of a magazine named O? Or that it would sell 850,000 copies at launch and grow to 2.7 million circulation before “settling back” to 2.4 million copies in mid-2017? And why would Oprah Winfrey, the first Black woman listed on Forbes 2003 list of American billionaires, want to publish a magazine? “Because I love the written word.”