PC World (magazine)

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PC World

Editor	Harry McCracken
Categories	Computer magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First Issue	March 1983
Company	IDG
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.pcworld.com
ISSN	0737-8939

PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services. The magazine was founded by David Bunnell and Cheryl Woodard; its first editor was Andrew Fluegelman. The magazine's slogan is "Technology Advice You Can Trust" and it is known for criticizing poor computer products or companies, even at the risk of losing advertising revenue.

The publication was announced at the COMDEX trade show in November 1982, and first appeared on newsstands in March of 1983; its original staff consisted of people who left PC Magazine en masse after that publication was acquired by Ziff-Davis.

PC World's magazine and Web site have won a number of awards from Folio, the American Society of Business Publication Editors, MIN, the Western Publications Association, and other organizations; it is also one of the few technology magazines to have been a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

Many well-known technology writers have contributed to PC World, including Steve Bass, Stephen Manes, Lincoln Spector, Stewart Alsop, David Coursey, and others. Editors have included Harry Miller, Richard Landry, Phil Lemmons, Cathryn Baskin, Kevin McKean, and the current editor in chief, Harry McCracken.

As of 2006, PC World's audited rate base of 850,000 makes it the largest-circulation computing magazine in the world.

On January 9, 2007, senior editor Rex Farrance was killed after being shot during a home-invasion robbery attempt.[1]

[edit] Countries

Based in San Francisco, PC World's original edition is published in the United States however it is also available in other countries (51 in total), sometimes under a different name:

PC World in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, India (from July 2006), New Zealand, Norway, Turkey
PC Advisor in the United Kingdom. (Another magazine called Personal Computer World, and a PC World retailer- neither related to the PC World magazine- already exist in that market.)
PC Welt, is the German-language edition.