MacWEEK

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title: "MacWEEK" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["weekly-magazines-published-in-the-united-states", "defunct-computer-magazines-published-in-the-united-states", "macintosh-magazines", "magazines-established-in-1987", "magazines-disestablished-in-1999", "magazines-published-in-san-francisco"] description: "San Francisco based trade journal" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWEEK" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary San Francisco based trade journal ::

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Field	Value
name	MacWEEK
image	MacWEEK cover nov98.png
image_size	225px
caption	MacWEEK cover dated 5 November 1998
type	trade journal
format	Paper and online magazine
founded
ceased_publication
price	free to qualified subscribers
owners	Michael Tchong,
John Anderson,
Glenn Patch,
Dick Govatski, and
Michael F. Billings
and from 1988 Ziff-Davis
language	English
ISSN	0892-8118
website	defunct
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| name = MacWEEK | image = MacWEEK cover nov98.png | image_size = 225px | caption = MacWEEK cover dated 5 November 1998 | type = trade journal | format = Paper and online magazine | founded = | ceased_publication = | price = free to qualified subscribers | owners = Michael Tchong, John Anderson, Glenn Patch, Dick Govatski, and Michael F. Billings and from 1988 Ziff-Davis | editor = | founder = | language = English | political_position = | circulation = | headquarters = | ISSN = 0892-8118 | website = defunct MacWEEK was a controlled-circulation weekly trade journal that focused on the Apple Macintosh. MacWEEK was based in San Francisco and founded by Michael Tchong, John Anderson, Glenn Patch, Dick Govatski, and Michael F. Billings. It featured a back-page rumor column penned by the pseudonymous Mac the Knife.

Founded in 1987, it was acquired by Ziff-Davis in 1988. In 1998, as part of a strategy change, the print publication was relaunched as eMediaWeekly, which caused a number of its existing sponsors to withhold their advertising. eMediaWeekly was published from August 24, 1998 to February 1, 1999. The online edition of MacWEEK continued for several years, originally under the editorial management of MacWEEK staff members and later under the management of former Macworld editors. It was later shuttered in favor of Mac Publishing's Macworld and MacCentral sites.

Rumors about Apple and its products were often published in MacWEEK which essentially became the source of record. Apple employees, following the example of executive Jean-Louis Gassée, at times referred to it as "MacLeak", yet some relied on it to distribute information they could not officially disclose, to draw internal corporate attention or funding to their projects, or to find out what was happening in their own company.

References

References

1. Armstrong, David. (1 May 1994). "Ziff Happens". [[Wired (magazine).
2. Egnst, Adam. (5 March 2001). "MacWEEK to Roll into MacCentral". [[TidBITS]].
3. "MacWeek gives up the ghost". CNET.
4. Engst, Adam C.. (May 18, 1998). "Farewell MacWEEK, Welcome e/media Weekly". TidBITS Publishing, Inc..
5. Engst, Adam C.. (February 8, 1999). "eMediaweekly Folds After Five Months". TidBITS Publishing, Inc..
6. Engst, Adam C.. (March 5, 2001). "MacWEEK to Roll Into MacCentral". TidBITS Publishing, Inc..
7. Snell, Jason. (1 April 2016). "Remembering the early, glorious Mac web". [[The Verge]].
8. Cohen, Peter. (5 June 2015). "Developers and customers need better communications from Apple". iMore.
9. Guglielmo, Connie. (25 May 2012). "Apple Loop: The Week In Review". [[Forbes]].

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